Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week on the frowning Capitoline Hill, a site as ancient as Rome itself, II Duce convened the first General Assembly of the Corporative State in the Hall of Julius Caesar...
...Caesar was deaf in his left ear. George III was insane. The Kaiser has a shriveled arm. Andrew Jackson had tuberculosis. Abraham Lincoln suffered from chronic constipation. None of these statements is offensive to U. S. citizens. But when John Gay mentioned the infirmity of a living President of the U. S., angry booing broke loose in the Waukesha hall. A quartet struck up a campaign song, thereby temporarily restoring order. Then Nominee Chapple rose and spoke...
...southern sea, and yet it has created a philosophy, a religion, and an empire. This fact makes Italy impervious to criticism from abroad. We can regard with supreme disparagement those doctrines which come from elsewhere, from a people which did not even know how to write when we had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus...
Below Bari, on Italy's instep, is the naval base of Taranto. There 50,000 people were waiting for Il Duce to hear what he had to say next. He was still remembering Caesar...
...earlier Vance cinemas, William Powell has been Philo. Since Powell is now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Vance this time is impersonated by Warren William. His performance as a detective is superior to his impersonation of Julius Caesar in Cleopatra but none of the ingredients of The Dragon Murder Case is sufficient to make the picture a puzzle or a shocker. Typical shot: Eugene Pallette, who, no matter who plays Vance, always appears as Vance's stupid police foil, muttering his catch line: "My experience as a criminologist teaches me to suppose...