Word: waterlooed
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...stylish, townhouse in Chelsea; imperial conquests in India to idleness and empty dreams of developments in Brazil; and martial valor to frustrating skirmishes of lust. On every wall hang pictures of distinguished forebears; father against the Germans, grandfather in the Great War, great to the nth degree grandfather at Waterloo. Whereas his ancestors went to heaven fighting for England's glory, Tony heads for hell carrying his cannon in his silk drawers...
...educated "at various schools." A friend explains, "She's just learned without being academic-a thing we have in England." Serious critics dismiss her writing as nothing but "a jolly good read," except for The Infamous Army, which is regarded as the best novel about the Battle of Waterloo since Thackeray's Vanity Fair. In an age of prurience and pornography, Georgette Heyer's main appeal is in the faultless re-creation of a world of manners and decorum...
...North Pole. Eeriest of all: Trumpeter Kenneth Landfrey's hair-raising bugle call for the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854. Landfrey restaged it for Edison in 1890, using the same bugle that also screeched Wellington's troops on to victory at Waterloo...
...record heap with Dominique. But Soeur Sourire shies away from her success. So Good Roman Catholic Ed asked the New York archdiocese to put in a word, and off he flew to tape a carefully supervised 18-minute session in the Dominican monastery near Waterloo, Belgium. "As a Catholic and a gentleman, I wouldn't argue with them," said TV's top impresario. "They ran the show." The fee? "No money," said the Mother Prioress, "but we have a mission in the Congo. Would it be possible to send a heavy-duty Jeep with rain curtains...
...small fortune and big reputation. When the British asked Nathan to smuggle gold to Wellington's troops trapped in Portugal during the Napoleonic wars, he shipped the gold straight to France, where Brother Jakob slipped it through the Pyrenees. Nathan found out about Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo before anyone else in Britain, thanks to a courier who sped a Dutch newspaper to him. He used the news to make a killing on the London stock market, where he customarily leaned in stoic solitude against a post that became known as "the Rothschild pillar...