Word: napoleonism
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America's oldest motorboating trophy, the Gold Cup, is a gold-plated silver urn that looks like an inverted Napoleon's hat. It was put up in 1904 by Manhattan's Columbia Yacht Club, to give the "monkey-wrench sailors" something to race for. Yachtsmen still think motor-boatmen are crazy. But there are enough mechanically-minded U. S. citizens, willing to spend $50,000 for a boat and 500 hours a year tinkering with it, to make the Gold Cup race one of the most exciting sport events...
...Paris he encounters Napoleon III, moves through a lot of heavy research on Second Empire high life, impresses Eugénie and many of the court ladies with his masculine charm, meets the heroine again, and in three years' seclusion becomes a fine sculptor...
...greatest art collectors the world has known was Napoleon Bonaparte. His hobby cost him little. From his far-snatched empire the Little Corporal gleaned many a masterpiece, filled the Tuileries and the Musee Napoleon with countless plundered art treasures. He pilfered so much, from so many places, that the record of his thefts has been a subject of much fruitless speculation to art historians...
...University of Rome last week saw its chance. After Napoleon's downfall, France was forced to return much Italian swag-notably the Horses of St. Mark's-but Italy was never satisfied that it had recovered all its rightful treasures. Last week Fascista, the University's official publication, listed demands for more: the Mona Lisa, other Da Vinci works, masterpieces by Titian, which include a portrait of the French King, Francis...
...Herbert Boskin & wife. On a sofa Lady Boskin "was in the arms of a dead man with a long, pale nose, and a red mustache, which gave a touch of macabre comedy to their attitude. . . ." Sir Herbert was in another room, "as dead," observes Poet Noyes gleefully, "as Napoleon. ... On a table beside him there was a magnificently bound copy of a pornographic work...