Word: cincinnatus
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...cell is bare except for the customary simple furniture, the hopeless messages from past prisoners scrawled on the walls and an overhead light that (perhaps like reason or the world itself) is naggingly off-center. The prisoner's name is Cincinnatus C., and he is under sentence of death for a misdeed that is not described; he only suspects that his crime is "opacity"-that stubborn, unknowing refusal to bare his soul which has always enraged a man's neighbors and masters. If the literary shades of other prisoners seem to be sharing the cell...
Petition to Run. Like all young lawyers, Art Langlie talked politics. But he had not seriously thought of a political career until the New Order of Cincinnatus tagged him for the city council. Once in office, he turned practical reformer with a vengeance. Langlie and his reform colleagues, though they were the minority, forced centralized city purchasing, establishment of a police training school, a shutdown of gambling halls and brothels, and a $2,000,000 slash in a fat budget. In 1936 the Cincinnatus decided to run one of their councilmen for mayor, picked Arthur Langlie. He lost to Dave...
...column "Cincinnatus," Segal plays both big brother and conscience to the Past's readers. His mild, low-keyed column shuns gossip, rarely stirs up sensation, never thunders. Instead, he may tell of a child with cerebral palsy, the of a 90-year-old friend, the good work of a priest he knows. Then again, he may just write about a pleasant, sunny day. Says Segal: "Cincinnatus looks with some tolerance on the sinner, with compassion on the pauper, with a sense of humor at the millionaire, and attempts to understand even the murderer . . . This is the world with...
...city, they hurry to patch it up. When he wrote that Cincinnati's Longview Hospital was short of wheelchairs, 18 were quickly provided. Another time, he told about the hard time a family was having after the breadwinner was sent to prison for stealing a factory payroll. Reading "Cincinnatus," the factory owner called the holdup man's wife, hired her at $20 a week, and told her to earn it by staying home to care for her children...
...Girl Named Paquita. After a bucolic boyhood in Indiana, Cincinnatus Hiner Miller (his real name) did indeed go west in a covered wagon. Hot with "Oregon fever," the Miller clan made the trek in 1852, but with most of Oregon to choose from, papa Miller, a hard luck farmer, staked out 320 arid acres. Restless and unhappy, Joaquin won his father's consent to go prospecting for "Californy gold." In later years, Joaquin claimed that he threw all but the biggest nuggets away, but his accounts show that he had a cash balance of $5.25 when he quit...