Word: napoleonism
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LABOR The Marengo Campaign For John Llewellyn Lewis the week began in acute suspense. It ended in one of the greatest victories of his thunderous career, after a battle which John pompously compared to Napoleon's bitter campaign on the plains of Marengo...
...best pilots; in 1932, he won the personal Navy E for dive bombing and fixed (i.e., fighter) gunnery. In his spare time, while other officers swapped scuttlebutt over wardroom coffee, Sherman read economics and world politics. He poured out scholarly articles for Navy publications, studded them with quotations from Napoleon, Lee and Moltke, ranged in subject from critiques on the 1918 air war in Palestine to suggestions for carrier design. Many of his contemporaries found his singleminded-ness irritating. But his superiors were delighted with a staff officer they could lean on; subordinates liked a man who always knew just...
...three speeches last week Evita quoted Napoleon once and Alexander the Great twice; she referred glibly to such obscure personages as Parmenio and Perdiccas (two of Alexander's generals), then casually brought Diogenes into...
Some make believe they are Napoleon, and some Satan. Other favorite characters are Robespierre, Perseus and Audromeda, and Pelion and Ossa. Sometimes men dress up as women and vice versa. Mardi Gras historians are still chuckling over the time a man won first prize for the "Most beautifully dressed lady...
...Little (5 ft. 3 in.) Frank A. Seiberling liked to be called the "Little Napoleon of Rubber...