Word: napoleonism
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...only one chance to display their intellectual attainments. This was on a radio quiz show. "On what river is the U.S. Naval Academy located?" asked the quizmaster. Why, said Miss Utah, on the Mississippi River. Miss Chicago was convinced that Maryland had been named for Queen Elizabeth, and that Napoleon had been crowned Emperor by the French people (correct, the judges decided, because Napoleon, who crowned himself, was one of the French people).* Miss Chattanooga was asked: "What is the capital of Massachusetts?" She shifted uneasily, hesitated, finally burbled something which sounded very much like "Petroleum...
...Napoleon's becoming emperor was very much his own idea, but it was approved by the French Senate and by a plebiscite. Pope Pius VII journeyed to Paris for the coronation, but when it came time to put on the crown, Napoleon took it from the Pontiff's hands and put it on himself...
...Saints. When, under Catherine the Great, Moscow was ridden by a frightful plague (1771) and a thousand people died each day, the Archbishop of Moscow forbade, for hygienic reasons, the kissing of icons; an outraged mob killed him. When in 1812 Napoleon marched on the city, the Governor General of Moscow issued a communiqué to the people which was a typical mixture of civic concern and religious fervor: "Thank God! All is well in Moscow. . . . Bread prices have not risen and meat prices have gone down. . . . Our protectors are, before the Lord His Holy Mother and all the saints...
...sentence that reads the same, forward or backward. Famed example: "Able was I ere I saw Elba" (apocryphally attributed to Napoleon...
Swarthy, stocky Napoleon Zervas, soldier of fortune and Greek Minister of Public Order, charged that the Communists had a detailed plot, known by the code name "Plan F," for sabotage and seizure of Government posts. His predawn raids, said Zervas, had been in the nick of time. The plot had been timed to support Russia at the United Nations; there Russia's Andrei Gromyko last week opposed the U.S. plan to set up a permanent border commission to watch Greece's northern frontiers...