Word: napoleonism
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...library presentation ceremony was held in the $250,000 Beaverbrook Gymnasium (his gift for 1939). Later, Beaverbrook presided with uninhibited gusto over a black-tie dinner, where he heard himself described as "an astounding combination of Puck and Napoleon." The Beaver lingered until 4 a.m., helping the 250 guests put away 95 bottles of champagne, uncounted slugs of whisky, with many a lusty song...
...revolutionary force in the world. "I have dedicated myself fanatically to Perón and to Perón's ideals," she says. "Without fanaticism one cannot accomplish anything." In public speeches she has coupled her husband's name with the name of Napoleon and Alexander the Great. Last fortnight, while he stood beaming at her side, she compared him, not unfavorably, with Jesus Christ...
Under the pen name "Tet Toe," which means "Progress," Newsman Pe has translated many Western classics for Burmese readers. Among them : Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ludwig's Napoleon and several De Maupassant short stories. One less classical On Pe translation: Dale Carnegie's How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. With his new novel he plans to reverse the process by translating it into English for British and American readers...
George B. McClellan, only 34 and commanding the Department of the Ohio, shot to immediate popularity at the outbreak of the Civil War. Dubbed "Little Mac-the Young Napoleon," West Pointer McClellan soon commanded the Army of the Potomac, and by June 1862 was only four miles from Richmond when a strong force led by General Robert E. Lee caused him to retreat from his ill-starred Peninsular Campaign. Bitter because he had not been given reinforcements, McClellan telegraphed Secretary of War Stanton: IF I SAVE THIS ARMY NOW, I TELL YOU PLAINLY THAT I OWE NO THANKS...
...fellow deputies, resisted any plan to elect the head of the French state by direct vote of its people. They were afraid of what Auriol called the "atavism" of the French people, which might lead them to vote a "strong man" into power, as they had voted for Napoleon I and Napoleon III. The "strong man" they worried about five years ago was Charles de Gaulle...