Word: ciceroism
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...placed alongside the present College Boards. The University catalogue of 1840 reads, "To be received into the Freshman Class, the candidate must be thoroughly acquainted with the Grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, . . . be able to construe and parse from the Gospel in the Greek Testament, Virgil, Sallust, Cicero, . . . and to translate from English to Latin correctly...
...Whatever laws the Allies were trying to establish for the purpose of the Nürnberg trials, most of them had not existed at the time the deeds were committed. Yet, since the days of Cicero, jurists have condemned ex post facto punishment...
...this is pleasantly interrupted by Composer Arlen's (Stormy Weather, Blues in the Night, That Old Black Magic) music-the choral lilt of When the Boys Come Home, the solemn gaiety of Sunday in Cicero Falls (a big spectacle number), the romantic fooling of Evelina, the dusky The Eagle and Me, the warm balladry of I Got a Song (put over with a bang by huge black Richard Huey...
...Cicero. One night last week Dago Mangano drove to Cicero, 111. for relaxation with Big Mike Pontelli (his bodyguard), and a girl named Rita Reyes, with whom Big Mike was enjoying a two-day binge. The trio drank innocently for several hours at the Paddock Lounge, a dim-lit bar which is tops in Syndicate society...
...support his point, the Pope turned to "the most distinguished orator of ancient Rome," and quoted Cicero...