Word: napoleonism
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...idea of eventual Algerian autonomy is anathema. Even though the bill provided only for a possible federative system of internal government in which the European colonials would keep a measure of power, it was unacceptable to the deputies who see France as she was at the height of Napoleon's Empire. This romanticism combined with the unrelenting opposition of the wealthy colonials now in control of Algeria combined to defeat the one measure short of immediate independence which might have been acceptable to the Algerian National Liberation Front...
...just like Waterloo!" shouted a gleeful spectator when the good news, 7 to 4 for Britain, was posted on the Scoreboard. For golfers, it was at least that. It took Wellington only four days to beat Napoleon. It had taken Britain 24 years to whip the United States for the Ryder...
...What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?" So the U.S. might well ask (with Keats) at the alarming sound that was heard in the land last week. The same sort of sound had rent the air as General Washington was being pushed out of Brooklyn, as Napoleon went down at Waterloo, as the British in Kenya marched off against the Mau Mau. For Scotsmen in the U.S., normally outshouted and out-paraded by the Irish, it was a great and noisy occasion: on hand for a 57-city U.S. and Canadian tour were the pipes and drums, regimental band...
LIKE all French Finance Ministers, Félix Gaillard occupies quarters in the Palace of the Louvre, and en route to his private dining salon passes through the state apartment of Napoleon III with its massive chandeliers, velvet drapery and columns, caryatids and cherubs encrusted with gold leaf. "Ugly, isn't it?" remarked Gaillard cheerfully to a TIME reporter. "All the gold I own is on these walls." This week Félix Gaillard arrives in the U.S. See FOREIGN NEWS, France's Daring Young...
Safety Record. In Beverly Hills, Calif., after police nabbed Napoleon Lafayette Baulch when he jumped a red light, discovered that he had stolen the car, was a two-term loser for burglary and forgery, was sought for passing $12,000 worth of bad checks, he lamented his capture, said he usually traveled by air because airlines "take bum checks...