Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Path of the King, successfully flatters his middle-class public and also their beloved sovereign with such turns as: "We may all of us have King's blood in our veins. The Dago who blacked my boots in Vancouver may be descended in some roundabout way from Julius Caesar. . . . And we fools rub our eyes and wonder when we see genius come out of the gutter! It did not begin there . . . Shakespeare . . . Napoleon . . . who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry...
Sanctions, as severe, as necessary, are even more urgent now than they were two weeks ago, and it appears hopeful that in the absence of French cooperation Britain will play her own hand against the rising Caesar. It must be evident to all the world that Laval's suggestion is merely another attempt to dissuade Britain from tuning up at Geneva a motor for which France has no further...
Japan will not change. Neither will the West, which feels as justified by logic in its position as a man 'talking reason' with a high-strung woman. . . . Nippon, the most feminine-minded nation, may yet accomplish what Alexander, Caesar, Genghiz, Charlemagne, Napoleon and Kaiser Wilhelm II failed to accomplish." Far Eastern Front by Edgar Snow (Smith & Haas, $3.75) "A visit to India, to Japan, to the Philippines, leaves you suddenly with the conviction that in many obscure but important ways the Chinese people are far in advance of Eastern men elsewhere, and that in them ultimately and inevitably...
Most noteworthy person mentioned in the Encyclopedia is Julius Caesar who gets 2,800 words. Only others to receive over 1,500 words are Washington, Lincoln, Bismarck, Mary Queen of Scots. To Christ's 1,200 words. St. Paul gets 1,275; to Stalin's 400, Trotsky gets 650. Should Franklin Roosevelt be nettled to learn that his 800 words fall short of Herbert Hoover's 1,100, he can reflect that he plays the leading role in 850 words on NRA. Other counts: Theodore Roosevelt, 1,400; Wilson, 1,350; Lenin. 1,050; Mussolini, 850; Hitler...
...readers may feel, on the strength of Dr. Richards' account, that Cicero simply could not make up his mind where he stood in the issue of democracy v. dictatorship. He had a yes-and-no policy on the soldiers' bonus, a yes-and-no attitude toward Caesar, who wanted to change the constitution. He left the uncomfortable middle ground to denounce Catiline, in one of the greatest pieces of invective known to history, but Catiline's crimes were great: he planned to burn Rome, abolish debt and share the wealth by taking over the property of political...