Word: ciceroism
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...charges against Gangster Capone are the result of two years of patient enterprise on the part of 100 Federal investigators. Rarely could the sleuths find an authentic bank account for the racketeer. Many records under aliases in Cicero, Ill., his suburban suzerainty, had been destroyed. But the archives of the bank did reveal canceled checks made in payment to the Capone organization for liquor consignments. Queried about their checks, saloonkeepers blandly replied: "Chickens; we bought chickens to serve our customers." "One saloonkeeper," said Attorney Johnson, "had given checks for enough chicken to feed all Chicago...
First we'll have two girls, Later we'll get new girls. You'll be Adam, I'll be the madam In our cottage in Cicero...
...value of familiarity with a civilization which contrasts so strongly with that of the twentieth century. Yale's plan for a required course in classical civilization, if well carried out, would provide a more effective means for attaining this end than the usual disjointed series of readings from Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil...
...great, stupendous task devolves upon me. It seems that for a moment eloquence has gone to sleep and cobwebs have overgrown the brain, searching about for a Cicero. My task is Herculean. It takes a man with the wisdom of Solomon, the thought of Shakespeare and the oratory of Patrick Henry to properly introduce this Friend...
...Cicero and Acra are different. Cicero has always been a tawdry, hard-boiled village of Sicilians and "blind pigs." Acra is a clean little Catskill settlement. Cider and applejack are home industries in that countryside. Last week Acra set about to rid itself of the slick, racketeering little rat that had run to it from the big city...