Word: cicero
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...feet six-and his broad shoulders support a massive head crowned impressively with snowy hair. As the representative of the British Empire, he strode into the Glass Room of the League of Nations, at Geneva, and delivered a speech which was soon compared to the great orations of Cicero...
...maker of this flattering comparison was the U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, suave Hugh Simons Gibson, who represented the U. S. before the League. The new hero, the orator who was discovered to resemble Cicero, is Baron Cushendun, who last fall replaced Viscount Cecil of Chelwood at Geneva...
...interview commanded large headlines. Mr. Capone's fame rests upon the fact that whenever- as so often happens-a Chicago thoroughfare is raked & riddled with machine-gun fire, Chicagoans take it for granted that Mr. Capone or his men have driven in again from their suburban headquarters at Cicero, Ill., to shoot down some rival gangster who has overstepped one of the underworld boundary lines which divide all Chicago into four parts (TIME, Mar 21). So many innocent bystanders have been shot down by gang warriors in Chicago that Chicagoans have great respect for Mr. Capone. The vice syndicate...
...Thaddeus adds a certain vindictiveness that is not to be found in most authors. That the attempt to blacken the name of Rome is more or less intentional is shown clearly by the preface, and throughout the work there is a use of invective that would have shamed even Cicero in his bitterest mood...
Like many another pioneer, the end of his usefulness came with the complete acceptance of his once radical innovations. Others explored further the implications of his ethical code. The Bergers and Capones of Cicero went on to machine gunnery, gas, bombs and airplanes. In the mad race for the new "Little Augie" stuck to his guns. And so he died when bullets sought and found him among the pushcarts of the East Side, died under the rules of self-preservation that he had made, died a martyr to his own conservatism...