Word: staggers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Biographer Emil Ludwig is no dull historian, neither is he a manufacturer of fiction. He takes the story of Napoleon, rips away the nimbus of legend, builds upon the facts of history a character that would stagger any novelist. He peeps into Napoleon's bedroom on his wedding night; he thunders across France with Napoleon in his battle carriage with maps swinging on the walls. Wisely, Mr. Ludwig has made the diaries, memoirs, reported conversations and 60,000 letters of Napoleon the bulwarks of the biography. Few men have written so much and so interestingly about themselves as did Napoleon...
...this story, becomes a great director and the cheap rats are drowned and smashed in torrents of abuse. It makes no polite fireside tale. The sex life of a Hibernian superman would be a thing of wonder even if he lived in Kamschatka. The Tully superman in Hollywood would stagger the Prophet. It is one of the coarsest stories since Rabelais but too terribly vivid, dramatic and shrewdly intense to be vulgar, save as Jarnegan was vulgar, to his sorrow...
Busy little white men, ever ready to oil dark palms, shepherd droves of curious, prying U. S. tourists about the earth, bribe warring Chinese Tuchuns to desist and let them pass, wheedle and bluff their way through situations that would stagger a master strategist. As the Anchor liner California docked at Manhattan last week her Thomas Cook conducted passengers effervesced with triumph at having visited on their Mediterranean cruise a city which was at the time beseiged by some 2,000 rebel tribesmen-Damascus...
...Gabriele's retreat* on the shores of Lago di Garda is a residence of such sumptuous luxuriance as to stagger confirmed sybarites. When the poet who shattered Duse's heart reclines upon the velvet coverings of his fantastic bed, a painting of himself as a leper leers down at him in a manner which he is said to find "exquisite." When the firebrand who seized Fiume strides out upon his lawn, the dreadnaught Puglia, placed there high and dry by the grateful Italian Government, affords him a milieu in which to pace the quarter deck of his extravagant...
There is a small, dark, steelyeyed, supple man, whom statesmen often dub "the first diplomat in Europe," whose accomplishments would stagger belief were they not chronicled in post-War history books. Dr. Edouard Benes*; was an essential instrument in: 1) The partition of Austria-Hungary after the War. 2) The creation of Czechoslovakia as a state. 3) The drafting of the League Protocol. And in the creation of the Little Entente (See INTERNATIONAL, p. 9) his was the master hand...