Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked that they be released from their instructions, that the Senate recede from its demand for these two controverted items. He warned that the House and the White House would not relax their opposition and that, unless the Senate changed front, the Tariff Bill was as "dead as Julius Caesar...
Close to the hill where the shrine of St. Louis now stands, ancient Carthaginians had their temple to Moloch, into the fire-blazing pit of whose brazen stomach they dumped children as sacrifices. Julius Caesar planned to rebuild the city. Augustus did so. It grew to have 500,000 population almost as many as before destruction. The Roman massacres of Christians occurred mostly in the 3rd Century A.D. Most famous of the Carthaginian martyr saints were Cyprian, a bishop, and Perpetua, a rich lady who modestly pulled her torn clothes about her sabre-ripped body before she died. The Arabs...
...support of Two-Way Time Dr. Lewis suggested that a motion picture of the universe could as well be run backward as forward, would defy no laws. Accepting two-way Causality it is possible to conceive that events which will happen tomorrow might have influenced Caesar to cross the Rubicon...
Greyhound Lines began by losing money, and Wickman sent Orville Swan Caesar to build it up. Once a mechanic's helper, Mr. Caesar entered the bus business by operating a taxi fleet in Superior, Wis., then a small stage line which was later bought by Northland Transportation. He made Greyhound Lines prosper, and as a result now, at the age of 37, is U. S. bus tycoon, President of a corporation with an estimated investment of $16,000,000 and profits (last year), of $1,549,000. He rarely leaves motors and roads to putter on his yacht...
Fritz Leiber and the Chicago Civic-Shakespeare Society. During his second week in Manhattan, Fritz Leiber added an energetic Jaques (As You Like It) and a mellifluous, rousing Mark Antony (Julius Caesar) to the rôles played during the first week (TIME, April 7). In the part of King Lear he gave all he had, more than enough to suggest the magnitude of the play...