Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward VII to be included in that magnificent and useful doggerel The History of England in Rhyme which so many sturdy Victorians still know by heart. In some 400 lines of galloping and definitely learnable verse it equips an Englishman with the history of his country from "great Julius Caesar, B. C. fifty-five." Gems from this Victorian jewel box apropos the long dead Edwards...
Glory. Actress Hayes' "cute" period fused with her more mature phase in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The Serpent of the Nile was her first regal impersonation. Notwithstanding Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams' crack that she was suffering from "fallen archness," Miss Hayes still maintains: "I felt that my tiny Cleopatra was just right. It seemed to me that Shaw meant her to be a gay young numbskull.'' It seemed that way to the theatre going public, too, for Caesar and Cleopatra had a long and prosperous run. The god Broadway was beginning to give...
...Caesar's mother lived for several years after he was born. The operation obtained its name from the fact that the Roman law required this procedure in case of the mother's death; the laws under the emperors became Caesarean laws, and the operation the Caesarean operation." JOHN M. SIEGEL...
...SAWDUST CAESAR-George Seldes-Harper...
...ANOTHER CAESAR-Alfred Neumann- Knopf...