Word: ciceroism
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...turn, Julius Caesar, Virgil, Antony, Cicero and Brutus become the subject of Cleopatra's unconventional commentaries and after each one has been sufficiently cheapened and demoralized beyond recognition the author turns to Roman stupidity, brutality and licentiousness which he riotously portrays without causing the reader to blnk an eyelash. His obstreperous satire becomes annoying when it is detected as so obviously blatant and artificial. It might be justifiable to sweep all of the heroism away from the character of Caesar, but there should be a motive for such an action. Satire without an objective is innate...
...incalculable importance of such finds to literature is clearer to no one than to His Majesty. Success might bring the discovery of works as important as those of Caesar, Virgil, Cicero. Little boys may yet be whipped for not studying attentively books perhaps to be discovered at Herculaneum...
...Hollisheimer had always been climbers, and it was with ease that Appleby crawled hand over hand over gargoyle and Cicero, smokestack and Dante, to the face of the clock. He leaped up, caught one of the hands of the clock and hung there. His weight was just enough to stay the course of time...
Some years ago a Paris ugly contest was won by eminent contenders-Novelist Georges Ohnet, Critic Francisque Sarcey and M. Francois Paul Jules Grevy, one-time (1879-1887) President of the Republic. To attract entrants for this year's contest, the promoters made public speeches praising Aesop, Cicero, Socrates and other famed eyesores. Competitors soon came flocking-a fishmonger with warts; a bald female pinhead who claimed to have been in a circus; an Italian Jew with erysipelas; Mme. Grun, a scowling housewife, with photographs of a neighbor whose mouth, she vowed, would admit a whole orange; pock-marked...
...Western State Bank of Cicero, Ill., announced last week the installation of a safety chute, wherein gamblers, thugs, bootleggers, honest merchants may drop deposits at any hour of the day or night...