Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means of abdominal incision when normal delivery is dangerous or impossible, is one of the most famed and spectacular of major operations. The classic Caesarean involves an incision from the umbilicus to the pubis, through the abdominal wall, peritoneum and uterine wall. The Caesarean section is named for Julius Caesar, who by legend was thus delivered from his mother. First actually recorded Caesarean on a living woman was performed about 1500 by a Swiss pig-gelder on his wife...
...SAWDUST CAESAR-George Seldes- Harper ($3). Well-documented record of the rise and rule of Mussolini, by a one-time European correspondent and author of Freedom of the Press...
...course this fellow, speaking only Latin, didn't realize what an atrocious pun he was committing. But if he had been intelligent enough to know English, he would simply have uttered, "Caesar sees her; seize her, Caesar...
...good Gaius gave us just what we wanted. He was chronicling the meeting between Octavianus Caesar the August and Cleopatra the Shamefaced. Don't ask us for the reference. There is nothing of the mummy in us; we went for the meat, and left those dry-as-dust details alone. Anyway, one of Augustus' soldiers, not quite so austere as his master, whispered to his fellows, "Caesar cam videt; rape cam, Caesar...
...good Catholic name," pursued her studies in the same class and both were cared for by fat, completely self-effacing Donna Rachele Mussolini who is her husband's idea of the perfect Italian wife. Above suspicion, she dwells most of the time in northern Italy, visited by her Caesar in a spirit of duty, which gives way at times to happy comradeship of an evening in the flickering glow of oil lamps on their farm...