Word: ciceroism
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...warm for him only after some acquaintances shot five holes in him at his hotel last autumn (TIME, Oct. 20). When he emerged from a city hospital, the city police escorted him and a case of whiskey out of town. Just as Capone has a suburban stronghold at Cicero, Ill., Diamond had made for himself a secluded, floodlighted country home at Acra, N. Y. There he settled down to make a living from running Greene County's beer and applejack industries...
...this problem of government requires an approval and ratification of certain amendments by and in a convention and that the language of Article V can be taken as modified by the principles of political science." To buttress his views Judge Clark showered his opinion with nonlegal quotations from Confucius, Cicero, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Lord Bryce, Justice Holmes, James Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, Montesquieu, William Howard Taft, Congressman Luce, Claude Bowers, Abbott Lawrence Lowell et al. He quoted a feeble joke from the Georgia Supreme Court. His opinion was a display of wide reading and deep scholarship. Whether...
Forty miles away in Cicero, Ill. that evening, swart Alfonse ("Scarface") Capone and 100 friends staged a homecoming party for Capone, who had arrived that day by plane from Florida...
With expansion, as in any well-run business, came prosperity. Capone took over the cross-roads village of Cicero, outside the city limits, made it a special gambling and vice resort. He started dog-racing. He developed his liquor trade in every direction. When men got in his way, his hirelings shot them down. A famed Capone saying: "It's bootleg when it's on the trucks but when your host hands it to you on 'a silver tray, it's hospitality...
...Cicero the Orator", Professor Moore, Sever...