Word: napoleonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most famous hairdresser in Paris, quite neglects his wife (we thought Aline rather a sweet little girl), is society's lion, is preyed upon by all females. So tremendous is his success with his great work and the women, that he is forced to accept the title of "Napoleon de la coiffure." But, gentlemen, the moral: There is a purpose underlying the wiles of women. Innocent little Denyse (daughter of Mario's best cliente) works Mario into her toils, and meekly proposes that he marry her after divorcing his wife. Aline, aware of all, saves Mario, their home...
...make Imperial Japan such an outcast as no Great Power has ever been made before. In the Assembly lobby only Hugh S. Gibson, tall, sleek U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, was seen to smile at and briefly chat with small, tense Japanese Chief Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka, a diplomatic Napoleon who knew he stood at Waterloo...
...coward, a traitor, and a thief." Purple veins stood out large on Napoleon's bull-neck as he concluded his tirade. "You have never worthily performed a single duty. You have betrayed and deceived everybody. You would sell your own father. You are a mess of dung in a silk stocking." The Emperor stopped, red-faced; he was out of breath. For half an hour Talleyrand had leaned, graceful and impassive, against a small table by the fire. Now he moved. Slowly, easily, he limped across the great carpet and paused at the white paneled doors. "What a pity...
From Butte to Albuquerque and from Kansas City to Salt Lake-the territory claimed for the Post's 150,000 circulation-the Bonfils career is epic. Everyone knows that he boasted Corsican descent (his father, a Troy, Mo. judge, changed the name from Buonfiglio) and kinship to Napoleon. Handsome, swarthy, he quit West Point in 1881 and tried his hand at land-trading in the Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas booms. His rough-&-tumble methods brought him, if not friends, a neat pot of money with which he started a lottery in Kansas. Bonfils had taken...
...French society simply as "La Duchesse." Out of her immense Veuve Cliquot vineyard incomes she financed General Georges Boulanger's intrigue in the 1880's to return monarchy to France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born and richest" woman of France when Napoleon III was Emperor, her greatest pride was in being the first woman appointed Wolf Lieutenant of Rambouillet, ancient office to protect districts from wolves, now an excuse with police privileges to hunt boar in the state forests...