Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exceptionally long, but not too difficult, was the examination in Virgil. Most difficult Caesar question: to account for the mood of exsecuturus esset in the sentence, Caesar respondit se fore aequissimum Pharniaci si quae polliceretur exsecuturus esset...
...WIFE TO CAESAR-Berthe K. Mellett- Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
...Wife to Caesar, as in her first novel The Ellington Brat, Authoress Mellett places her characters along the Potomac's stormy northeast bank. A Washingtonian, wife of the Scripps-Howard editor of the Washington Daily News, she has seen great political and social lions grow from little cubs. The results of her bright-eyed observation she sets down in an excited, exciting style. With its high-pressure people, its journalistic plot, her rather amateurish novel somehow manages to be one of the most characteristically U. S. productions of the year...
...student who contemplates graduate work in English or who plans to take 3b, Mr. Kittredge's course in Boowulf, 3a in indispensable. To complete one's study of Old English with it, however, is analogous to leaving Latin with Caesar. It is an elementary course concerned mainly with the reading of prose varied by the often delightful and always illuminating comments of Mr. Magoun. The grammar, one of the simplest, is covered at almost breakneck speed and the reading begun before the student has mastered more than the demonstrative paradigm and the representative strong verbs. That reading consists largely...
...Caesar Borgia, Casanova, Talleyrand, Byron, and Thomas a Kempis, St. Francis of Assisi,--these are the sinners and saints whose characters are examined here as a study in contrasts. All of them acted according to Mr. Bradford from distinct motives, so that the casual reader is free to choose his own favorite form of sanctity or sinfulness for study. But whether he turns to St. Francis or Casanova, he will find the same gently ironic insistence on the underlying egotism which prompted them...