... the belief t the art of warfare could only be prope practised in elaborate costume. Did not N leon scrape the depths of a bankrupt treasu o trick out his armies in plumes and braid On the other hand, Napoleon was beatei >y a Duke who once, when in the ...

... first overseas possession and the cornerstone of the whole Empire. We fumbled and stumbled and talked, and let the place go bankrupt, and put it in pawn and finally let Canada have it last year. The Nufun'landers are a kindly folk and perhaps they will be ...

... enjoyed by Continental theatres, Covent Garden's demands are modest. Just after the first war, when Austria was a starving and bankrupt nation, an annual sum equivalent to £150,000 was found for Vienna's beloved Staatsoper. You must have lived in Vienna to ...

... time grew short it was re peated again and again, the same question. And she heard what she wanted to know. Her husband was bankrupt. She smiled and died. And half an hour after her death there was delivered to the house her last extravagance. It was absurdly ...

... the moment when Bassanio reveals his Alice-in-Wonderland economics (if the concern in which you have put your money goes bankrupt, become wealthy by doubling your investment) to its Shylock-in- Blunderland climax. Now, one way to deal with a problem such ...