Word: napoleonism
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Little (5 ft. 3 in.) Frank A. Seiberling liked to be called the "Little Napoleon of Rubber." In 52 years in the business, F.A.'s career had as many patches and punctures as an old inner tube. He founded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1898 with $3,500 borrowed cash, made it the world's biggest tiremaker. But in the 1921 slump he lost control of his company...
...since the days of Napoleon had the schools of France been threatened with such an upheaval. In the press, oldtime maitres d'école and professors were quick to cry alarm. The government, cried one, "is trying to force the schoolteachers of France to teach according to a pedagogical system. The metier of a professor is a liberal metier and it remains with each teacher to organize his own system of instruction." By last week the whole affair had split France's educators right down the middle...
...splitting began in the days of the German occupation when Frenchmen, brooding over their surrender, began to wonder just how good their education was. Napoleon's laws setting up the public lycées, passed in 1806, still stood. But since then a hodgepodge of other schools had mushroomed about the original system. For the most part, the children of laborers and farmers rarely got as far as the lycees. Those who did, some Frenchmen began to think, received such an overintellectualized brand of instruction that they emerged unfit for the day-today lives that most of them would...
...film places the action in a sort of opéra-bouffe Dogpatch in central Europe, in Napoleonic times. Kaye is not the knave of Gogol's play but a good-hearted rube. A half-starved outcast from a medicine show, he is mistaken by the crooked mayor (Gene Lockhart) and his henchmen-relatives for Napoleon's feared inspector general traveling incognito. Then, hardly grown into his splendid Techncolored uniform and the hungry affections of the mayor's wife (Elsa Lanchester), Kaye becomes a cat's-paw and fall guy for the scoundrelly medicine-show boss...
...still more important discoveries awaited the investigators. Napoleon's soldiers had missed one tomb entirely; within it lay undisturbed the young Prince Fernando de la Cerda, eldest son of Alfonso X, who died in 1275. He lay on embroidered cushions, a jeweled toque on his head, a jeweled belt around him, his hand still gripping a jeweled sword hilt...