Word: caesarism
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...will have a hard time putting down one of Burnett's books before you have finished it; The Silver Eagle is no exception. As in Little Caesar, the scene is contemporary Chicago, but this time the hero is no gangster but a racketeer perforce. Francis Cecil Harworth (ne plain Keogh) has come up from scratch to a position that includes the ownership of several nightclubs, a gambling house, a Rolls-Royce and a limited but attractive choice of women. All his businesses are strictly legal with the exception of the gambling house. Harworth is a hard young man with...
...English 3a is an indispensable course provided, however, he follows it in the last half-year with English 3b, Mr. Kittredge's course in Beowulf. To conclude one's study of Old English with 3a is to parallel the almost proverbial observation about ending one's classical career with Caesar. It is an elementary course conducted at breakneck speed to enable the student to do considerable reading in the chronicles, leechdoms, and the amusing lives of the saints. Then there are occasional bright spots in the form of informal lectures on various linguistic phenomena and interesting etymologics. Mr. Whiting...
...Caesar's Rome, whose government was as corrupt as Manhattan's is now suspected of being, augurs would have found such a pigeon fall ominous, especially because death had come from the east. Haruspices might have inspected the entrails of the birds (extispicy), interpreted the portents. Prognostication would probably have involved, according to the political exigencies of the community, the deaths of conspirators against the commonwealth...
...today." he said, "aspires to no more than did the ox when man first yoked him. The sea gull of the English Channel, who poises him self above the swift steamer, wants no bet ter food or lodging than the gulls who circled round as the keels of Caesar's galleys first grated on an English beach...
...Through these during the campaign passed deposits of $276,637. He signed the checks "James Cannon Jr.," "James Cannon Jr., Chairman," "James Cannon Jr., executor." When a Washington bank got finnicky about check endorsements, Bishop Cannon retorted: "As the Master said when he was asked to pay tribute to Caesar, 'Go and catch a fish and take the gold coin out of the fish's mouth and pay the tribute...