Word: caesars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caesar-like, he publicly divided the southern states into three groups...
THIS book by Mr. Ravage in which he recounts the story of the House of Rothschild cannot but evoke immediate comparison with the recent work of Egon Caesar, Count Corti dealing with the same subject. There is evident, indeed, in these two works the difference between two methods of biographical or semi-biographical exposition. Mr. Ravage is essentially the popularizer leaving out of the picture much that goes to make a complete panorama of the times and relations in which his central characters find themselves; Count Corti is essentially the historian, realizing the important part which character and heredity play...
President Van Buren spent $27,000 on new decorations. Congress fumed about "Caesar's palace" and "Asiatic Mansion." In consequence Harrison won the "Log Cabin" campaign...
...Practically all the Julian clan had unbalanced minds. Julius Caesar, Augustus' uncle, had epilepsy...
Despite all his obsessions and oppressions, Rome's citizens, soldiers and provincials admired Caligula. That was not his real name. His real name was Gaius Caesar. But, because he was charming as a little boy when he plopped in soldiers' boots along the Rhine with his father Germanicus, everyone called him, and con tinued to call him through his short life, Caligula. Caligula means "Little Boots...