Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...style, alternating with simple, forceful exposition, make history's dull spots lively, its blind spots clear to many a layman. If, as some charge, he prefers the exciting but doubtful facts to the sound but dull, even grudging critics admit that in The Navy: A History and Hail, Caesar!, Fletcher Pratt has coaxed some engaging new curves into the muse of history...
...According to pickle lore Thomas Jefferson was a pickle-eater, may have composed the Declaration of Independence while sucking on a dill, and Julius Caesar led spiced cucumbers to his legionaries...
...Press dispatches have just announced the discovery of the tomb of great Caesar's ghost writer, one Aulus Hirtius. ... It is more than probable that Hirtius wrote some portion of Caesar's Commentaries, dividing with Oppius, another ghost writer of that day, the credit for authorship of the eighth book of the Gallic Wars...
...Distinctly not one of the gay-blade emperors of Imperial Rome was Tiberius Claudius Nero (42 B.C.-A.D. 37). Son of one of Julius Caesar's officers and a gifted mother, he was an impenetrable man with a powerful but slow-moving mind, a love of tranquil study. As a military commander he distinguished himself in the field, particularly against Germanic tribes in Gaul. According to Suetonius, the Senate erected a triumphal arch to Tiberius...
Pope Pius XII manifested great interest in the discovery, directed the diggers to proceed with the excavation. Tiberius was the ruler Jesus referred to when He said: Render therefore unto Caesar the things hat are Caesar...