Word: napoleonism
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Napi. Saxons imagine the Gauls to be the sexiest people; the Gauls modestly tender the palm to the Ottomans. It is natural, therefore, that Playwright Julius Berstl, a German, should have pictured Napoleon as a lecherous little character beloved by many beautiful women. It is also natural that the dramatist should have imagined that any other Frenchman who looked exactly like Napoleon would possess the same endearing attributes. The other Frenchman in Herr Berstl's play is small, goatlike Ernest Truex, who was last seen stamping around and fidgeting for Hortence Alden in Lysistrata...
...Napoleon's councillors, fearing an attempt on the Emperor's life, discover...
THERE has always been a certain fascination in idle speculation of the past. Men wonder how their own lives would have been effected if they had gone into business rather than medicine, or they ponder on what France would be today if Napoleon had won at Waterloo. There is a sentimental romance about the process that appeals to the most prosaic...
Exhorting a Boston audience, Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday predicted his own early death, crying: "I'm running in high all the time! I scorch downhill! . . . I've got Napoleon [who slept only four hours per night] backed off the boards, hanging on the ropes!" Then he said he desired that after his death his body should rest in a Boston churchyard. He roared: "Boy, I like the folks back here! ... I told Mrs. Sunday not to bury me in the ground, not to cremate me. I want to be put in a sepulchre...
...doubted. The choice of subject has its advantages. If the artistic merits of the play should prove incapable of raising it above the waters of Lethe, it will at all events be kept above the waves by half a dozen lines in the bibliography of works on Napoleon First...