Word: napoleonism
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...young student at the Jesuit College of St. Clement's at Metz, heard the classroom windows rattle to the guns' announcement that the city was now German, the nightmare of the Franco-Prussian War turned into a dream of revanche. He fed the dream with legends of Napoleon; his religious training gave him the very highest sanctions. From the Polytechnique he pushed through the Ecole d'Application, the Cavalry School at Saumur, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. In 1890 he was summoned to the General Staff at the Ministry of War. Here the dream of revanche took strategical...
...Thee I Sing. An early scene in the play represented the campaign headquarters of Mr. Wintergreen, candidate for the U. S. Presidency. When he jilted the winner of a beauty contest, who turned out to be "the illegitimate daughter of an illegitimate son of an illegitimate nephew of Napoleon," the bishop's pulse remained about normal. Then the French Ambassador, represented as a fidgety little dolt, approached President Wintergreen (William Gaxton...
...inspiration is not patriotism but a mere thirst for power. Hitler himself is depicted as shrewd and clever. He has discovered the power which he possesses of swaying the masses by his eloquence and through this quality makes his appeal to emotion and not to reason. A worshipper of Napoleon, and an imitator of Mussolini, Hitler lacks the brilliance and strength of character to be either...
Under the general direction of Miss E. M. Smaill, the Harvard Dramatic Club players have been casted as follows: Cort, a sub-lieutenant; Meyer, Napoleon; and Sedgwick, Guiseppe. In providing the Wellesley course with members of Harvard's stage forces, the Harvard Dramatic Club held trials for those interested, and the resulting names were selected for the parts as indicated...
Flea Cousin Charlie has been taught to push about an infinitesimal ball. Flea Napoleon trudges along with a small wire cannon in tow. Flea Reuben tugs a roller. Prompted with a bit of broom straw, Napoleon, Reuben and Cousin Charlie are encouraged to race. There are, in addition, six dancing fleas. Rudolf from Hapsburg operates a tiny carousel, but one suspects that the Professor's favorite is "Caesar and his Roman chariot...