Word: napoleonism
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...Baldwin was unknown and Mr. Bonar Law had not held office, he looks back on 30 years of romantic adventure that would provide material for a dozen normal lives which would find a place in the Dictionary of National Biography; on experiences of war in more continents than Napoleon fought in; on a library of books that would not do injustice to a life spent in literature, or journalism, lecturing, painting; on a political career more full of vicissitudes than any since that of Bolingbroke; and on the tenure of more great offices in the State, not merely than...
...clean, brave, loyal, highly educated men. . . . The mob howls at the Kaiser as our people did at the President of the late Confederate States [Jefferson Davis]. . . Each was charged with cowardice for seeking to make his escape. The same people would probably have said the same thing of Napoleon I, when he abandoned his troops in the Russian winter of 1812, or when he took refuge in the arms of England after the loss of Waterloo. It is a matter between these rulers and their conscience whether or not it had been better for Napoleon to have blown his brains...
News came last week that Abd-el-Krim, famed "Napoleon of Morocco," now exiled by his French captors (TIME, Sept. 20) upon Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, a remote Elba, has turned for recreation to dictating his memoirs to a secretary who is also one of his guards...
...Second French Republic and the Advent of Louis Napoleon". Professor Sanger, Harvard 6, History...
John Gabriel Borkman is a trag-edy of a Napoleon of finance who waited vainly for the world to come to his Elba in a garret, who finally stamped forth rashly to regain love and the world when it was too late. The little pauses between lines, the way an actor paces the room, the tempo of dialogue and movement, make all the difference in play production. To this work of Playwright Ibsen's old age, Miss Le Gallienne has given more careful direction than she has to previous offerings of her Civic Repertory Theatre. Egon Brecher...