Word: cincinnatus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many colored men have there been in the U.S. Senate and who was the last??Two, the latter was Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi, who was eulogized by his colleague Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, an old-line blue-blood aristocrat of the South, as one who reflected credit upon his race, his state and the American Government...
...finally a revolution did come, and a bloodless revolution it was. Instead of a Lenine at the helm, there appeared Benito Mussolini, the man of the hour. Seizure of power under the above circumstances, I am inclined to think, does not deserve to be censured. Surely a modern Cincinnatus who has had the ability to bring about the "one bright spot in Europe" must have meditated considerably before choosing his plan to take possession of the ship of state Sincerely yours. F. E. LA CAUBA...
Since the fig leaf went out of style, the problem of proper dress for state occasions has bothered each succeeding generation. When Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was hastily summoned to the dictatorship of Rome in 458 B. C., he is reputed to have left his oxen hitched to the plow, but history does not say whether he changed to a fresh toga before proceeding to the Capitol. Twenty-two odd centuries later, Mrs. Jackson was intensely annoyed at some of the President's convivial adherents, who, coming in their native gard to congratulate him at his inauguration, stood in muddy boots...