Word: aurelius
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Even though only a Freshman in this great university, I have taken the liberty of following the advice of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, when he said: "Direct they attention to what is said. Let they understanding enter into things that are doing, and the things which do them...
...Mayor James Michael Curley called for their nomination on an "all-green ticket" anyway, suggested that the Democratic state committee could later make substitutions for the November election. This political trick left Democratic voters cold. Instead they formed an "all-Yankee" ticket by nominating for the Senate Marcus Aurelius Coolidge, onetime mayor of Fitchburg, manufacturer of machinery, banker, no kin to Calvin Coolidge, and Joseph B. Ely of Westfield for the governorship. The spectacle of a Wet Coolidge running against a Dry Butler in November piqued state interest. Nominee Coolidge, delighted, celebrated his victory by taking his family to Newport...
...Died. Aurelius B. Hinds, 84, of Portland, Me., inventor and onetime manufacturer of toilet preparations (Hinds Honey & Almond Cream, etc.) now made by Lehn & Fink Products Co. of Manhattan; of pneumonia; aboard the S.S. Samaria, in the Mediterranean. Mr. Hinds was once clerk in a Portland drug store where, later, Cinemactor Lew Cody jerked sodas...
...aversions are: Immoral students who study the conquest of Providence flappers more closely than the conquests of Macedonian Alexander; football rally stickers pasted on certain parts of Brown's ill-proportioned equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius; intoxicating liquors, which Parson Faunce refuses to believe his young gentlemen drink; sexy modern novels, instanced by the case of English Instructor Percy ("Plastic Age") Marks who was asked to resign when his college novel reached Parson Faunce's sedate office. Percy Marks complied...
...City. Few towns have greater wealth of story than Salzburg. There, Marcus Aurelius, soldier, established Roman headquarters among the Teuton tribes and brooded on philosophy. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to music. There the ecclesiastical princes came nearest to realizing the medieval dream of an all-powerful church and a beautiful state...