Word: napoleonism
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...Murphy had said. The killer, shaken with remorse, sank to his knees on the kitchen floor. "Darling," he sobbed, "I loved you. I always loved you." He gathered the "limp little body" in his arms, caressed it, "covered it with kisses." It was too late for kisses. Napoleon, the Murphy family parrot, was dead...
Jimmy Murphy, 25, had just knocked Napoleon across the kitchen with a baseball bat. Jimmy, a single-minded lush, had a frightful temper. Sometimes, according to Author Natalie Anderson Scott, he was capable of "smiling humorously," but more often anger "twisted his handsome face" and corrupted his "sweet, childish mouth." He swindled, stole, played fast & loose with girls-among them an artist named Kay, and Dolores, who wore sables and "went around adjusting herself" (Dolores could "adjust herself in a thrice"). Jimmy peddled dope, knifed his sister, beat up his mother, hocked the family goods. But his mother loved...
...last week most French journalists were ready to agree that 40-year-old Pierre Lazareff is the closest thing to genius in the French press. The weekly Point de Vue dubbed him "Napoleon of Journalists." Lazareff's successes were indeed Napoleonic. In the 30-odd months since he returned to France (after almost four years as a war exile in the U.S., where for a time he headed the French radio section of the Office of War Information), he had put together a more formidable empire than he had before...
Emil Ludwig, best-selling biographer (Napoleon, Bismarck, Cleopatra, Roosevelt), whose books were once burned by the Nazis (he is a Jew), was again a banned author in Germany., This time he was verboten in the Russian zone for being too "militaristic...
...Chevrolet. Quietly he bought back 40% of G.M.'s stock (with the help of the Du Ponts) and walked into a G.M. board meeting with his pockets bulging with stock certificates. Imperiously he announced: "Gentlemen, I control this company." As Walter P. Chrysler later said: "It was like Napoleon's return from Elba...