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...clean broom. But his patriotic heart went out to the defenders, and he finally engraved on his dagger the words: "Death to the French." Still, he lived on the fringes of the invader's court, painted French generals as well as Spanish. He also portrayed the triumphant Wellington, and finally, though with obvious distaste, the returned King Ferdinand VII. Vacillating and bad-tempered though Goya was, no ruler thought of dispensing with his talents. Meanwhile he was recording the horrors of the war in a sketchbook that had no heroes at all, only villains and victims. The etchings...
...beau Wellington," she found tedious, goodhearted, generous. But when the duke spurned her dun ("Publish and be damned"), he too met a different kind of Waterloo. "His Grace," spits Harriette, ". . . has written to menace a prosecution if such trash be published . . . When Wellington sends the ungentle hint to my publisher, of hanging me, beautiful, adored and adorable me, on whom he had so often hung! Alors je pends la tête! . . . Good-bye to ye, old Bombastes Furioso." Then she proceeds to relate how the duke, fresh from his triumphant campaigns in Spain, hurried straight to her house...
Passion for Politics. The House of Commons that afternoon hummed with anticipation. The benches were packed tight, but on the government front bench no one sat in the place that in times past has been filled by Walpole, Chatham and Pitt, Wellington, Peel, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone and Churchill. Then, in the middle of question time, Britain's 43rd Prime Minister quickly picked his way over the outstretched feet of his sprawling ministers and subsided into Churchill's seat. The House cheered...
Then the scene shifted. The lights went up and the stage expanded to reveal the glittering, oak-paneled prime ministerial dining room inside. Portraits of Wellington, Nelson, Pitt and Fox stared down from the walls as the guests took their seats. Garbed in full uniform or official court dress, some 50 of them were ranged along the U-shaped table. There were the bemedaled Generals Montgomery and Alexander, who had led great armies under Winston Churchill's direction during World War II. There was quiet, modest Clem Attlee, his longtime colleague and longtime opponent. There, gracious and smiling...
...naval architecture and navigation, Puleston left his bank job in 1931, and, with one companion, sailed across the Atlantic in the 31-ft. yawl Uldra. For six years he adventured around the world, and stopped barely long enough to get married: his honeymoon (with the former Elizabeth Ann Wellington of Manhattan) was spent on a 110-ft. vessel sailing from San Francisco to Tahiti. Puleston took time out to write a sensitive travel book, Blue Water Vagabond (Doubleday) , and to do a few bird paintings - most of which he gave away as presents. He was surprised when friends asked...