Word: napoleonism
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...made on the Allied side. Hitler allowed the British Army to escape at Dunkirk by personally ordering the attack on Paris. It was Hitler who failed to take Moscow in August 1942, by ordering all eastern reserves into the Ukraine. He had a mystical fear of Moscow because of Napoleon's fate. The Führer, according to Halder, thought he could crush the Russians by taking Stalingrad and Leningrad, because they were named for the two most venerated Bolshevist leaders...
With much whizzing and sound effects, the Colonel was shot up in a rocket ship to a star, looked down at the earth through a telescope and was startled to see the battle of Waterloo just going on. (Said Fadiman: "It took the light rays from Napoleon's battle almost 200 light years to travel from the earth. . . . Things can't be observed to happen simultaneously in space. . . .") Then Stoopnagle was brought back to earth, put aboard a ship, where he observed that he was moving. (Fadiman: "Everything in the universe is moving all the time. The motion...
General Douglas MacArthur got an honorary Doctor of Laws from Manila's University of Santo Tomas, whose rector acclaimed him "greater than Alexander the Great or Napoleon, man of destiny and savior of Christian civilization...
...Pont powder mill at 22½? an hour a short 20 years ago. Now he has a fortune of $7,000,000 and a show place in Newport. His admirers refer to him as "the emperor." (In the library of his Newport home hangs the David portrait of Napoleon...
...vote whether English should be a "must" course, two out of three voted yes. But the camp's officials are never too sure that prisoners are not just currying favor. In one written examination, 82% of the prisoners named Hitler as history's greatest tyrant; Nero, Napoleon and Hirohito were way behind. Says the present camp commander, Captain Alfred C. Johnson: "We can be sure only that our experiment in education is doing no harm...