Word: caesarism
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...course this fellow, speaking only Latin, didn't realize what an atrocious pun he was committing. But if he had been intelligent enough to know English, he would simply have uttered, "Caesar sees her; seize her, Caesar...
...good Gaius gave us just what we wanted. He was chronicling the meeting between Octavianus Caesar the August and Cleopatra the Shamefaced. Don't ask us for the reference. There is nothing of the mummy in us; we went for the meat, and left those dry-as-dust details alone. Anyway, one of Augustus' soldiers, not quite so austere as his master, whispered to his fellows, "Caesar cam videt; rape cam, Caesar...
...good Catholic name," pursued her studies in the same class and both were cared for by fat, completely self-effacing Donna Rachele Mussolini who is her husband's idea of the perfect Italian wife. Above suspicion, she dwells most of the time in northern Italy, visited by her Caesar in a spirit of duty, which gives way at times to happy comradeship of an evening in the flickering glow of oil lamps on their farm...
...Path of the King, successfully flatters his middle-class public and also their beloved sovereign with such turns as: "We may all of us have King's blood in our veins. The Dago who blacked my boots in Vancouver may be descended in some roundabout way from Julius Caesar. . . . And we fools rub our eyes and wonder when we see genius come out of the gutter! It did not begin there . . . Shakespeare . . . Napoleon . . . who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry...
Sanctions, as severe, as necessary, are even more urgent now than they were two weeks ago, and it appears hopeful that in the absence of French cooperation Britain will play her own hand against the rising Caesar. It must be evident to all the world that Laval's suggestion is merely another attempt to dissuade Britain from tuning up at Geneva a motor for which France has no further...