Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twas called great Caesar's rubber stamp...
...probably is saying to himself: 'I am their leader, but they don't know it. I will study their moods, so that when the time is ripe I can catch their emotional fervor. Then they will ask me to be their dictator.' "Thrice did the mighty Caesar refuse the crown." Meantime newshawks got Braintrusters Taussig, Landis and Berle to deny knowing Dr. Wirt, got Braintruster Tugwell to admit that he had never even heard of him. Washington guessed that Dr. Wirt had talked to some of the brilliant and unknown youngsters who took themselves seriously and thereby...
...picture, which is based on the novel of W. R. Burnett, author of "Little Caesar," in which Robinson gained his first screen fame, deals with a man whose passion for gambling is so strong that he gives up love and home and practically everything in life considered worthwhile because...
...confine argument to the Dillon charges, and to exclude the general public merits sympathy. And if three hundred of those excluded sign a petition wanting to know why the hearing is not quite as advertised, he may rest unperturbed. His secretary solved this problem when he told the crowd, "Caesar does not have to answer...
...death of Sandino, hero and symbol of Latin-Americans' resentment against what they call "The Colossus of the North," sent a pang of sorrow and dismay from the Rio Grande to the Horn. Named for a Caesar by his well-to-do coffee planter father, Sandino got a fair education at Nicaragua's Granada Institute de Oriente, roved aimlessly north. He worked in mines, in U. S.-owned oil fields, in filling stations and for a Banana company. He was back in Nicaragua when Dr. Sacasa and General Jose Maria Moncada set off a Liberal revolution...