Word: napoleonism
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...want no scapegoats," he cried. "This whole Cabinet must go. M. Tardieu has been compared with Napoleon. The comparison will be complete when he meets his Waterloo...
...Germanic Relations with Napoleon I," Professor Fay, Germanic Museum...
...have made it convincingly a drama of the present time. It concerns a woman who married a rich man much older than herself, and how her marriage affected two younger men who are in love with her. Best shot: Reporters taking Frank Morgan's picture in his costume as Napoleon at a fancy dress ball...
...Jersey. Up & down the State hurried Alexander ("Little Napoleon") Simpson, Democratic nominee for the Senate, caustically charging his Republican opponent, Dwight Whitney Morrow, with responsibility for hard times and unemployment. He compared Mr. Morrow to the Dalai Lama of Tibet, declared the Morrow butler perfumes the Morrow soupspoon. Nominee Morrow meets these attacks with such sweet reasonableness as: "It's not at all unnatural for the political party out of power to blame bad times on the political party in power. Conversely it is the habit of the party in power during a period of prosperity to take credit...
Often likened to Napoleon, Northcliffe came to fancy the likeness. During his last few years he grew more & more dictatorial, capricious, megalomaniac. Suspicious, he fancied the Daily Mail office was becoming a "family party." He found "someone in the Cashier's Department is a relation of a man in another department, and there are many such cases. The office is a honeycomb of relations end relationships." Dissatisfied with his Advertising Department, he suddenly promoted the Daily Mail hall porter, one Glover, to be its head. He defended his action in a remarkable memorandum: "He [Northcliffe] had long consultations with...