Word: napoleonism
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...slot at night. A "champion" and a "challenger" must solve a picture puzzle consisting initially of a spattering of dots. To connect the dots and get the picture's outlines clearer, contestants must answer questions. When the picture is guessed, e.g., the face of Napoleon, the winner is rewarded at a base-pay scale of $20 per unconnected dots. This may soar with such refinements as Double Dotto, Triple Dotto and Double Double Dotto. Home players can get in on the act by giving their answers via telephone...
...Seventh Avenue already knew: the sack is sacked and the chemise gets the breeze (TIME, June 30). At the Paris showings, the new look was an old one-the Empire style, first devised by the ancient Greeks and popularized in the 19th century by the Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon. Its chief characteristics: a bosomy neckline, a high waist pulled in just below the bust, a flowing, bell-like skirt...
...beginning of 1858, Orsini and three Italian fellow conspirators had arrived in Paris with their cargo of "what looked like a clutch of monstrous birds' eggs, spiny and fantastic." On the appointed night Orsini and his friends joined the crowd in the Rue Lepelletier, down which Louis Napoleon and Empress Eugénie were about to drive to the opera...
...just murmured to a friend, "The policing of the streets is perfect," when three heavy explosions brought down most of the windows and a candelabra. Outside, the imperial carriage collapsed and the blood of an escorting general spurted over the Empress' dress. Shaken but only slightly scratched, Louis Napoleon and Eugénie stepped from the remains of their carriage into a scene of carnage. One doctor alone reported 156 innocent casualties, including eight dead and three blinded...
Felice Orsini went to the guillotine in March 1858. crying "Viva l'Italia! Viva la Francia!" To show his love of Italy, Louis Napoleon would have liked to pardon him; instead, thirteen months later, he led an army of 200,000 over the Alps and defeated the Austrians at Solferino and Magenta. It was the beginning of the end of foreign rule in Italy. The new Kingdom of Italy, established seven years later, would have to decide whether Felice Orsini was a hero or an inept killer, or both. As to his bomb-throwing predilections, he might have answered...