Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today." he said, "aspires to no more than did the ox when man first yoked him. The sea gull of the English Channel, who poises him self above the swift steamer, wants no bet ter food or lodging than the gulls who circled round as the keels of Caesar's galleys first grated on an English beach...
...Through these during the campaign passed deposits of $276,637. He signed the checks "James Cannon Jr.," "James Cannon Jr., Chairman," "James Cannon Jr., executor." When a Washington bank got finnicky about check endorsements, Bishop Cannon retorted: "As the Master said when he was asked to pay tribute to Caesar, 'Go and catch a fish and take the gold coin out of the fish's mouth and pay the tribute...
...hitherto been neglected. Nick is played by Edward G. Robinson, an actor with the face of a depraved cherub and a voice which makes everything he says seem violently profane. In Smart Money he does again several of the things he did in Little Caesar but not so many that the role is repetitious. His pal, who dies after Nick has hit him for suggesting that his last bad blonde is a stoolpigeon, is James Cagney (Public Enemy...
...centuries school children have struggled with Caesar's account of his campaign in Gaul without either being able to tell a coherent story of what was Lappening or being in the least aware that what they read was one of the finest and most stirring reports of a soldier on his military activities that has ever been written...
...educational value of familiarity with a civilization which contrasts so strongly with that of the twentieth century. Yale's plan for a required course in classical civilization, if well carried out, would provide a more effective means for attaining this end than the usual disjointed series of readings from Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil...