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Word: napoleon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guest of Lucky Strike cigaret's radio hour, Governor Roosevelt last week broadcast to the nation his first political speech as a Presidential candidate. Excerpts: "The present condition of our national affairs is too serious to be viewed through partisan eyes for partisan purposes. . . . Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo because he forgot his infantry. The present Administration in Washington has either forgotten or it does not want to remember the infantry of our economic army. These unhappy times call for plans . . . that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Smith 1; Roosevelt 154 | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Punctured Napoleon? Even German Reds are prudent. Last month, in the first presidential election (won by nobody since nobody obtained an absolute majority), 4,982,939 Communists turned out and voted for their "Red Napoleon," leather-lunged Comrade Ernst Thalmann (TIME, March 21). Last week, since everyone knew that Comrade Thalmann had not the ghost of a chance, more than a million German Reds prudently wasted no time in voting, left their Red Napoleon punctured flat and with only 3,706,388 ballots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hitler Stopped? | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...cinema shooting lodge is a curious type of dwelling. Its architecture seems adapted to situation-comedy rather than to outdoor sport, and it almost always contains a murderer, a lunatic, a butler or a ghost. This time the lunatic is Stuart Erwin. He thinks that he is Napoleon and his lugubrious schizophrenia prompts him to describe Claudette Colbert as "La Duchesse" and to murmur 'Waterloo!" with the pensive intonations of a hoot-owl. His resourceful guards recapture him by singing "La Marseillaise." Meanwhile Claudette Colbert's squeals grow less indignant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 18, 1932 | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...Meyer '32 will play the part of Napoleon in the Dramatic Club's forthcoming production of "Napoleon Intrudes," which will be presented at the Rogers Building during the first week of May. P. H. D. Rowan '34 was previously cast for the role, but was unable to accept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEYER TO PLAY NAPOLEON | 4/16/1932 | See Source »

...plot of the drama centers around a group of wax figures in a Paris Museum. Napoleon, one of these, decides to see the modern world. In doing so, he encounters everything from a peace conference to a motion picture actress's boudoir. He finally returns to his waxen immobility, determined to let the world take care of itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEYER TO PLAY NAPOLEON | 4/16/1932 | See Source »

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