Word: caesarism
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...thinking it was Sept. 30. They woke up to find the new day Oct. 14. The Gregorian Calendar (used in the rest of Christendom) had been substituted for their more ancient Julian. The one was instituted by Pope Gregory XIII, in 1582 A. D., the other by Julius Caesar...
...CONQUERED-Naomi Mitchison-;Harcourt ($2.00). Meromic, " The Pride of-the Venetii," young Prince of Ancient Gaul, came to manhood just at the time of Caesar's conquest. His tribe crushed, his father killed, his sister driven to suicide, he was sold as a slave and sent to Rome. He was rescued from torture by Titus Barrus, young Roman aristocrat and Lieutenant of Caesar. A friendship as strange as it was deep grew up between them, its bonds so strong that it even forced Meromic to fight against his countrymen during the last campaign against Vercingetorix. But at last...
...exclaim "with what joy shall we remain silent the day Germany understands; but she has given us dally fresh proof of her lack of understanding". Standing in the village of Ailly Wood in northern France it would indeed be strange if the ruins about him did not, like Caesar's wounds, open their poor dumb mouths and eloquently remind him, if he needed a reminder, of what his nation is owed...
...casting of the piece is a trifle uneven, but what two or three of the principals lack the chorus supplies. They are eight young women of apparently acrobatic ancestry. Their energy and smartly synchronized activity would suffice to vitalize the seventh Book of Caesar set to music...
...Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have had no beneficial effect other than from habit on the great deeds of the world, for the foundations of civilization were laid, and Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Caesar, Dante, and many more lived and wrought before Raleigh brought the weed to the Old World. This type of evidence has no scientific value, no statistical basis, and is of interest only as a revelation of personalities and of the fact that no dogmatic statement can be predicated...