Word: caesars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of Virgil and Horace. . . . It is remarkable that Rome reached the highest peak of her literary success in a period very similar to the present one." The conditions were rendered unsettled by the "constant, actual or threatening, civil war," besides Rome's foreign troubles. Yet in this period Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, and Horace produced the greatest works of Latin literature...
...Great-Unvaccinated: Alexander, Caesar, Milton...
Wilson has been defeated. His bell of political fame has gradually ceased to ring. But its tolls shall never be forgotten, because they were human. They were the heart-beats of a man defeated by the people and the country for whom he has died. Defeated not as a Caesar, by his ambition; nor a Napoleon, by a flaw in his military strategy; but defeated by propaganda and politics, that underestimated his truth and genius, which lay in his "League of Nations" prayers and plans. "Not since the heralding angels sang the great birth song of Christ has one arisen...
...Zangwill really feels this way, it will do no harm to his audience to hear stnoera criticism rather than polite nothings. And after all Mr. Zangwill, like Shaw's Caesar, may have been speaking on an empty stomach. A good dinner might change America's whole aspect...
...good old days, according to Mr. Bronk a class in Caesar took great interest in making wooden models of Caesar's bridges. To try such a thing today would only call forth a laugh, mainly because it would be such a waste of time." And therein lies the key to the trouble. A Mr. Hughes says people are "living too fast". Minutes, as if by the touch of Midas, have been turned to gold. The vast economic development of recent years has undoubtedly increased and distributed wealth, but it has also, like all good things, its price. Because...