Word: cicero
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...Illinois where prairie winds whistle around the silos, where Chicago sprawls its boulevarded length along Lake Michigan, where gangsters play with guns and bootleg in Cicero and East St. Louis, there are now three candidates for U. S. Senator...
...occasions when the Rockefeller Foundation calls Detroit "the vilest city in the country," or when a newspaper publisher is murdered in Canton, Ohio (TIME, July 26). However, there is one town which has recently raised the visceral tension of the righteous about once a month. That town is Cicero, Ill., a Utopian nook for the twins. Here on the western fringe of Chicago is a polyglot population of 62,000-Irishmen, Italians, Sicilians, Slavs and many another tribe. The Western Electric Co. employs thousands of them; other industries are near and plentiful. But it is to the gangs...
...Cicero has written history under the Caponi régime. There was the day when the Duncan Sisters, famed baby-talk gurglers of musical comedy, put on a street fight with two Cicero policemen, and later sued the town for rough treatment. There was the story of a young, able newspaper editor who refused to leave town. So, members of the Caponi gang beat him up at a busy street corner, and kidnaped his brother for a few days. There was the killing of Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin last April, a crime that has not yet been...
...there, too, that Mr. Moggs gave Higbie Chaffinch a copy of Treasure Island, whose author, one Stevenson, Higbie could not recall among the illustrious company-Cicero, Seneca, Theocritus, Tibullus, sweet Petronius-in whose service his years had been passed. Disrobing that night, with Treasure Island open on the dresser, Higbie had difficulty disentangling his feet from his pant-legs without taking his eye from the page. He ceased trying and the snarl lay about his bony ankles, his shirttails waving free, until the book was finished. Kendrick Glasby, star reporter of the local daily, upon whose stalwart young person...
Professor R. S. Conway, the other English teacher, is a professor of the University of Manchester, and an honorary Fellow of Cains College, Cambridge. He as well as Professor Sikes, is a classical scholar of note and will take the second half year of Latin 8, dealing with Cicero and Lucretius, and Classical Philology 78 on the influence of political reflection in Latin poets and historians...