Word: megalomaniac
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...Republican Congressman Clare E. Hoffman of Michigan, a labor-hating eccentric, who has pocketless coats so his hands will not get tangled up while he is orating. He once called President Roosevelt a "crazy, conceited megalomaniac"; he scoffed at the President's "absurd" assertion that there were U-boats off U.S. shores. In 1940 he said: "Roosevelt has . . . seized most of the dictatorial powers exercised by Hitler, but he lacks Hitler's efficiency...
Words. The blunt phrases of French Fascism's aged favorite were in the megalomaniac strain of all dictators. "In 1917," rumbled he, "I put an end to mutinies. In 1940 I put a period to our rout. Today it is from you yourselves that I want to save you." There was nothing unusual about the rules that Marshal Pétain announced-they came right out of the common totalitarian rule book...
Akin to Hollywood's picture business is the business of retailing. Glossy, high-priced executives move from store to store, accompanied by troops of favorite underlings. Terms like "genius," "snake," "megalomaniac," are indiscriminately applied. Last week, in the gossipy lianas of the trade, the No. 2 U. S. retailer of general merchandise was getting more than his share of epithets. His name: Sewell Lee Avery, chairman of Montgomery Ward...
...stagehand who did not like to see his name in print." Among producers, his pet annoyance is the Shuberts. No great admirer of Billy Rose, he admits that Rose is a pressagent's Dream Boy because "he scorns dignity in favor of delirium." His favorite producer is megalomaniac Jed Harris because Harris is cyclonic, unpredictable. "All female stars," adds Maney, "have one thing in common: after you stand on your head to arrange an interview, they break the date because they have to have their hair washed...
...State papers. Admission to the grounds: 25?. Fumed Republican Dewey Short of Missouri: "Not even immortal Shakespeare or Milton or Wordsworth would have the unmitigated gall and brazen effrontery to ask that a monument be erected to them to house their precious pearls of wisdom before their death. . . . Egocentric megalomaniac!" Minnesota's Republican Knutson suggested the papers be brought to Washington so that future statesmen might learn "how not to run a government...