Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power behind a dummy king. Herod was thus always the representative of Rome in a remote and hostile country, first won recognition when he cleaned out rebellious patriots and bandits in Galilee, opened the trade routes that were closed whenever Rome's authority was weakened. Ingratiating himself with Caesar, he managed to keep the esteem of the successive rulers of Rome despite their fierce quarrels among themselves, gave his loyalty to each in turn, had only Cleopatra as an implacable enemy among the ruling powers...
Thus the attitude of Italians toward conquered Ethiopia is Christian in its readiness to collaborate with and convert the heathen, and Roman in its drastic finality. The features of Benito Mussolini in the prime of his conquest are those of an Augustan Caesar. "It is our peace," he told his victorious legions, "Roman peace...
...laps. In spite of these bonds tables gyrated, pianos played, "ectoplasmic" faces made luminous appearances, megaphones whispered remarks from dead-&-gone characters on "the other side.'' Investigator Garland was impressed but noticed some incongruities. "I confess that it was a bit surprising to find Socrates and Julius Caesar writing messages in commonplace English for the benefit of an elderly citizen of Washington." It was hardly less surprising to hear Roosevelt I admitting that 1912 was "great times but these are greater. I stand, behind my cousin...
...precedence down the list of States, the reason being the absence of U. S. Ambassdor Robert Worth Bingham, who was also absent at the funeral of King George and is still vacationing in the U. S. There was but one U. S. presentee outside the diplomatic circle: Mr. Caesar Augustin Grasselli.* Seated on a glittering throne, the new Sovereign received in all approximately 1,000 men-including the envoys of the Great Powers now bickering over the Rhineland Crisis (see p. 24)-in the record average time of 3½ seconds each...
...also wreaking havoc in the various casts which are assembled for the amateur plays which enliven the end of term. The Provost of King's College's production of Aristophanes' "Frogs" seems to have got under way today without serious depletion, but the grand production of "Julius Caesar," which the Marlowe Society and the A. D. C. are jointly preparing for next week (with your compatriot, Mr. Max Millikan as Cassius) has already lost its Antony, not to mention its Soothsayer, and the producers are fearing that other members of the cast may have been infected at rehearsal...