Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is some good music written by Sigmund Rombert and in one song? "Pizarro Was a Very Narrow Man"? Irving Caesar has turned out a rollicking lyric. The book, by Otto Harbach, is usually plausible...
Author William R. Burnett (TIME, July 1, 1929; Jan. 13) wrote five novels, 50 short stories before he published his first book, Novel No. 6. It was Little Caesar, chosen by the Literary Guild (June 1929). His next book, Iron Man, was Book-of-the-Month for January 1930. Successful, married, he lives in Los Angeles...
...Gaulish but are probably copied from a Gaulish type. The original prototype is the Phillipus of Phillip of Macedon which shows on the abverse a concrete bust and on the reverse a biga. Two other coins in this group are attributed to the Icent and are dateable shortly before Caesar's invasion...
...impossible. Almost as strange as a silent Shaw picture would be a Shaw opera. That, however, had not been attempted by the young German composer, Karl Friedrich Grimm, who mounted Shaw's steps last week, score in hand. He had merely written a prelude to Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra. Shaw listened, pondered, approved...
First entry into literature of the unicorn was in 399 B.C. when a Greek physician at the court of Darius described him. Subsequently Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Julius Caesar, though they had never seen the animal, described him. The Old Testament gives backbone to the legend by mentioning the unicorn seven times...