Word: charioteer
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...simple as to tie up with the wandering circus boy. When she finds herself pregnant she marries a farmer, Elmer Croy, who loves her too much to mind premarital infidelity. Pierre travels on with his mother, gets a big-time job with Haines's Roman Circus as chariot rider, gladiator. In this capacity he fascinates Leah, a waning mistress of wealthy benefactors long deceased. Pierre and she take up together in Chicago. She holds him with her comfortable, wise charms, and with the money she can lend. At the sight of the world of wealth, Pierre's banker...
...Flea Reuben tugs a roller. Prompted with a bit of broom straw, Napoleon, Reuben and Cousin Charlie are encouraged to race. There are, in addition, six dancing fleas. Rudolf from Hapsburg operates a tiny carousel, but one suspects that the Professor's favorite is "Caesar and his Roman chariot...
...military academy. In 1910 he was in Paris assisting, with Picasso and Braque, at the accouchement of cubism. Back in Mexico City he was the leading figure in a group of quasi-Communist artists who have become the leaders in the Mexican renaissance: Jose Clemente Orozco, Jean Chariot. Carlos Merida, Pachecho. They worked for a flat rate of $4 (eight pesos) a day and hired a plump little boy to bring them water and wash their brushes. The water boy was Miguel Covarrubias. now famed smartchart caricaturist...
...Recognized with unerring British Parliamentary instinct that Prime Minister MacDonald's declaration winding up the Second Indian Round Table Conference with vague, conciliatory talk of a Third Conference and greater freedom for India, was in fact a move to keep restive India quiet and hitched to the chariot of Empire as long as possible...
...just such talk Benito Mussolini won support and cash from Italian bankers and industrialists, suppressed Italian Socialism and Italian Communism, then hitched both banking and industry to the chariot wheel of his Fascist State...