Word: caesarism
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...picture, which is based on the novel of W. R. Burnett, author of "Little Caesar," in which Robinson gained his first screen fame, deals with a man whose passion for gambling is so strong that he gives up love and home and practically everything in life considered worthwhile because...
...confine argument to the Dillon charges, and to exclude the general public merits sympathy. And if three hundred of those excluded sign a petition wanting to know why the hearing is not quite as advertised, he may rest unperturbed. His secretary solved this problem when he told the crowd, "Caesar does not have to answer...
...death of Sandino, hero and symbol of Latin-Americans' resentment against what they call "The Colossus of the North," sent a pang of sorrow and dismay from the Rio Grande to the Horn. Named for a Caesar by his well-to-do coffee planter father, Sandino got a fair education at Nicaragua's Granada Institute de Oriente, roved aimlessly north. He worked in mines, in U. S.-owned oil fields, in filling stations and for a Banana company. He was back in Nicaragua when Dr. Sacasa and General Jose Maria Moncada set off a Liberal revolution...
Lindbergh to many, has been a flesh and blood incarnation of Solomon, Socrates, Caesar, Columbus, Napoleon, Livingston, Stanley, Washington, Lincoln, all rolled into...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia visited the new $8,000,000 Bronx County Court House, exclaimed: "Why, it reminded me of the palaces of my ancestors, Justinian, Augustus Caesar and Nero. In fact, they did not know so much about splendor-they were just pikers. That building up there -oh, it's just gorgeous. Take the grand jury room, for instance. After sitting there on a ball-bearing throne in luxury that Romans never knew, the juror will go home and say Phooey!' Why, that room is so spacious that no witness will ever come...