Word: caesars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA- Shaw comedy wherein a flapper Cleopatra plays verbal hide-and-seek with a superannuated Caesar...
...offthe "honor pier." A navy cutter came alongside, battleships and Fort Akershus boomed salute, the populace of Oslo yelled and waved a welcome. Director Thormessen of the Norwegian Aero Club rushed forward, embraced each of the six fervently. There were speeches in a pavilion decked as for a returning Caesar with streaming flags and two gilt, victory-winged pylons; officials, including the Burgomaster and the President of the Storting (Parliament) became apoplectic with admiration and praise; Amundsen replied that he was speechless. More cheering, hymns, the national anthem...
...CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA ? Shaw comedy wherein a flapper Cleopatra plays verbal hide-and-seek with a superannuated Caesar...
Next day, the Augusteo Amphitheatre was crowded with bemedaled Black Shirts who had arrived from all parts of Italy to attend this year's National Congress of Fascisti. In the Royal Box sat Mussolini gazing down upon the multitude with the air of a Caesar. On the stage was Deputy de Vecchi urging complete "Fascistization" of the State: "Our efforts will not be relaxed," he said, "until ultimate victory. Our chief cannot be touched without passing over our dead bodies"-the finishing touch which caused an uproarious rendition of the inevitable Fascist hymn, Giovinezza...
...seek to make the debate poetical, but I must recall the most ancient fame of this cheese [Roquefort]. Pliny the Elder and Julius Caesar extolled its fame as one of the best products of the Gauls. It resisted all invasions, inasmuch as, in the Dark Ages, charters included Roquefort cheeses in the tributes to be annually contributed to the stores of feudal lords. Other charters of Charles VI and VII and letters patent of Francis I and Louis XIII solemnly ruled that Roquefort cheese must be made with sheep's milk and aged in the natural grottos of Roquefort...