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Word: napoleons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Napoleon & Me. The sixth river was the Liffey, in Dublin. There Johnston was married during a brief furlough. Soon he was back at the front, bridging the seventh river, the Rhine, and pushing on into Germany. With the hard-driving U.S. tankmen he felt at home. But he also felt sorry for the Germans, until one day when he came upon the Buchenwald death camp and choked as he recorded the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pungency of War | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

Like most Spanish intellectuals since his day, Goya was a liberal at war with himself. When Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, Goya at first welcomed what he hoped would be a clean broom. But his patriotic heart went out to the defenders, and he finally engraved on his dagger the words: "Death to the French." Still, he lived on the fringes of the invader's court, painted French generals as well as Spanish. He also portrayed the triumphant Wellington, and finally, though with obvious distaste, the returned King Ferdinand VII. Vacillating and bad-tempered though Goya was, no ruler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Steep Path | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

Sardonic "gusts of laughter" shake the goddess' sides, says Graves, when she sees the havoc that has prevailed ever since "the restless and arbitrary male will" usurped "the female sense of orderliness" and loosed upon civilization the sort of ruthless character typified by "Alexander, Pompey and Napoleon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Goddess & the Poet | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

From my readings about her at the time I well remember what Mark Twain had said, namely, "Napoleon and Helen Keller were the most interesting personalities of the nineteenth century." At the end of the first third of our century I'll go even further than Mark Twain and say that no living personality is as interesting and unique as Helen Keller. I'm wondering whether in all history there has been any woman as unique and interesting an Helen Keller...

Author: By Antonios P. Savides, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Impressions of Helen Keller--A Short Studdy | 6/17/1955 | See Source »

...Pearl River to Canton, sneak ashore, knock two or three Red guards on the head, open the door of precisely the right cell, and escape to freedom with the Reds chasing foolishly after them. Displaying scarcely more hesitation than a plump matron deciding between a chocolate eclair and a napoleon, Susan lets her husband -who seems glad to get away - fly back to the States, and chooses Clark as her soul mate. Their final clinch halfway up a mountainside is mercifully dwarfed by a staggeringly beautiful panorama of Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

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