Word: waterlooed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood hands Nathan Rothschild becomes an heroic, altruistic, entirely admirable person. For example, the movie shows Rothschild risking every cent he possessed in a brave attempt to keep up England's credit by bolstering the falling Exchange, with market quotations dropping at every rumor of victory by Napoleon at Waterloo. Actually, one is informed, Rothschild has advance news of Wellington's triumph and hastened to buy up the market when it was at a dead low, just before the news of the defeat of the Corsican sent the market booming...
...came the crash. Eaton backed off without control but Samuel Insull had not won. A good part of his fortune had disappeared in the fight. The rest disappeared in trying to keep his fantastic holding companies from tumbling. He had wrecked his own empire. April 10, 1932 was his Waterloo. He and Sam Jr. conferred with the bankers at the exclusive Chicago Club. They did not dare meet elsewhere for fear the dreadful news would leak out. At that meeting a receivership was agreed upon. Samuel Insull, Charles A. McCulloch and Edward N. Hurley (now deceased) were to become...
This is the signal for Nathan Rothschild's greatest coup. First he extracts from the Allies a promise to give Jews citizenship. Then he agrees to lend them all the Rothschild money. On the morning of Waterloo Rothschild is in a bad way. There is a panic on the London stock exchange. If the market breaks completely. Rothschild will be bankrupt. He pops on to the floor, places in his buttonhole a flower given him by Mrs. Rothschild (Mrs. Arliss) and orders his agents to buy. Presently, there arrives from the battlefield a message that Napoleon has lost. When...
...backslid into heathenry at the slightest excuse; the weather and the scenery were both melancholy. Hamish's days were excitingly full of preaching, coaxing, denunciation; Allison found time to wish there were something more. Then came Andrew, wandering artist, man-of-the-great-world, wounded veteran of Waterloo. Hamish and Allison both delighted in him; his visit lengthened on & on. Then Hamish had to go to London. Allison and Andrew, left alone, finally admitted they were in love; but Allison remembered her duty, sent him packing. Seventeen years later she saw him again, on the street in Edinburgh...
...Irish Free State. New York and New Orleans might appropriately have joined the celebration. Self-named in honor of his birthplace, Lafcadio Hearn was the son of a Greek woman and an Irish surgeon-major stationed on the island during the British occupation that followed Waterloo. After indefinite schooling at a Roman Catholic College in Great Britain he went to the U. S., worked as a waiter in New York, then moved to Cincinnati where State laws prevented his marrying his octoroon mistress. Next move was to New Orleans where he worked on the Times Democrat, wrote the sketches...