Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a shrewd suspicion of the probable result, no attempt was made to defend London from air attack. Britain was divided in two, "Redland" and "Blueland." The official problem set "Redland's" commander would have taxed a Napoleon: to defend the mines and factories of northern manufacturing Britain, to preserve a way out of the country for minerals, inward for food and supplies. Real problem of the maneuvers was to test the comparative efficiency of day bombers and interceptors. Redland was given the fastest fighting planes, Blueland the fastest bombers...
Beethoven''; Symphony No. 3 by Conductor Max von Schillings and the Berlin State Orchestra (Columbia, $12)-Ber-lin's big man gives a dramatic reading of the monumental Eroica which Beethoven intended, until his hero took the crown of Emperor, to dedicate to Napoleon...
Mile Marie Meonie Chaptal, granddaughter of the Emperor Napoleon's Minister of the Interior, President of the French National Council of Nurses, delegate of the League of Nations Child Welfare Committee, returned to Geneva lately after a brief inspection of domestic life in the U. S. She did not like what she saw. Opening her report with a few words of praise for President Hoover who received her in the White House, she continued...
Previous Camel advertisements have been consistently conservative, with an impersonality in marked contrast to the advertising of Luckies. Indeed, the Lucky advertising has usually been read almost as a series of unsigned manifestos from George Washington Hill, the Napoleon of American Tobacco Co. However, neither William N. Reynolds, Camel chairman nor Bowman Gray, Camel president, has emerged from a corporate reputation to become a popular figure in the public...
...creative artists. The other causes embrace an only fitful instinct for truth, an almost fantastical indifference to beauty, and a deplorable neglect of the fundamentals of workmanship. . . . There have been arid epochs before this, such as the Victorian and its equivalent across the Channel in the Paris of Napoleon III. . . . Mediocrity in those days had a stupendous vogue. Modernism is but repeating history. It will someday prove a kind of Victorian 'dud,' with a difference, obviously, but a 'dud' just the same...