Word: caesarism
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Further activities by II Duce resulted in the resuscitation of an edict of Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (63 B. C. to 14 A. D.) requiring all Romans to keep buildings owned by them in presentable repair...
...explained that, in order to cater to that sense of Asiatic luxury which is "proper to every good Jew," he had built the hotel around a bath. The Christians who objected to sharing their public quarters with Jews had no such splendid bath as this-no, nor had Augustus Caesar, nor has the most pompous sybarite in Hollywood. The notables, the pressmen inspected the hotel-a steel and concrete Joseph's coat, a terraced temple of fantastic, incredible luxury...
...Dead Like Caesar...
...degree of political control making possible a practically complete domination of the press, so that the situation cannot even be publicly exposed; where labor shares in this exploitation of the masses through the most vicious kind of class legislation; and where personal liberty is as dead as Julius Caesar...
...Babbit is sure that "Alexander Caesar, Attila, Charlemagne, th settlers of Manhattan, and the west" were actuated by the same urge which has recently raised prices in Florida. And it may be said that although Attila and John Doe stand for somewhat different methods of land improvement, it is substantially true that each followed a kindred instinct and urge. In fact economists have long recognized this urge and given it the caption, "land hunger". One may suspect that the term real estate finds company in Mr. Babbit's mind with barbarian transactions chiefly to steady the turbulence of property dealings...