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Word: shadeless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British themselves were spending ?250,000 a year to guard Napoleon, Lowe was ordered to cut Bonaparte's household from ?18,000 to ?8,000. Napoleon promptly had his table silver pounded into a shapeless mass, weighed and sold openly in town. Vindictively Lowe restricted Napoleon to a shadeless plain for horseback riding, and forbade him to enter his own garden after dusk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Soldier's Last Home | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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