Word: waterlooed
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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...
...Asiatic and Balkan has learned the difficult art of the "slow march," 50 dim, sweating figures executed a strange maneuver one midnight last week. Symbols of R. M. C.'s 134 years of crack officer-breeding are eight ponderous brass cannon whose snouts once faced the British at Waterloo, now yawn harmlessly on Sandhurst's lawn. The 50 dim figures scuttled toward them like ants toward dead beetles. The raiders' leader deployed his men, half a dozen to a cannon. The 50 tugged, pushed, panted. When the maneuver was finished, two cannon stood on the rugby field...
...outcast as no Great Power has ever been made before. In the Assembly lobby only Hugh S. Gibson, tall, sleek U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, was seen to smile at and briefly chat with small, tense Japanese Chief Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka, a diplomatic Napoleon who knew he stood at Waterloo...