Word: centurion
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Doris was not a bad woman at all, but her love affair with Apollos, a Jew, had a pronounced geographical tendency that kept getting her into scrapes. She even had a child by Vespasian when the future emperor was only a centurion. Her wanderings make the frame of this novel wide. Her adventures, which are as unintermittent as they are various, provide bright colors for the picture...
...Hulse made an exquisite Centurion with realistic British Army tendencies. John Thorn, the strong man convert who finds it necessary to hit his adversaries's cheeks so that they may have the opportunity of testing their faith, was a very necessary and worthy addition to the company. His interpretation was equalled but not surpassed by Mr. Compton, as Caesar...
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...citizen and a taxpayer marched into the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, last week, with a bodyguard of lawyers and counselors-at-law. At his right hand was Wilton J. Lambert, Washington attorney, centurion of the bodyguard. Such was the abrupt appearance of William B. Shearer, plaintiff?described in papers which his lawyers proceeded to file as a citizen and a taxpayer as well as a qualified naval expert and the inventor of a type of one-man torpedo boat, the Sea Hornet, sold to the Government during the War. One other person was described in the papers...
...That the letter of the Treaty has not been observed by Great Britain, who is maintaining capital ships to the amount of 711,000 tons instead of the 525,000 tons allowed. This alleged condition comes about because the King George V, Thunderer, Ajax and Centurion have not been scrapped, as provided for in the Treaty, although the ships which were supposed to replace them, the Rodney and Nelson, are "practically completed...