Word: cincinnatus
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Eight years ago Mr. Lowden had his job as able, wartime Governor of Illinois to finish, to seem wholly preoccupied with. Now, as a humble Cincinnatus, he bides on his Sinnissippi Farm at Oregon, Ill., refusing to be called from the plow until the psychopolitical moment. With much honk and ceremony, a large motorcade of his admirers drew up at Sinnissippi last month. Mr. Lowden had known in advance that they were coming, but when he strode out on the porch in riding boots, his greeting to them was an indefinite gesture. Instead of a destination, he gave them...
Statements. Less analytical people confined themselves to flat statements. Onetime-Governor Edward C. Stokes of New Jersey was first into print with the classical ". . . as Cincinnatus was called from the plow...
...sale in 1923 of his Melody Farm, $5,000,000 estate of forests, fountains, lakes, drives and gardens, near the Lake Michigan shore north of Chicago. Truculently honest, weary of commercial strife, he now spends most of his time rusticating in California. Last week however he was, like another Cincinnatus called from his farm, in Chicago alongside his nephews Philip D. Ill and Lester in their tribulations with Armour Grain...
...summoned Cincinnatus of Greece, ex-Premier Eleutherios Venizelos, once again came out of retirement in foreign climes to undertake a patriotic duty. He consented to act as Greek Ambassador to Yugo-Slavia for six months in order to cement friendly relations between the two countries. His term of office will begin after the signing of a Greco-Yugo-Slavian alliance, which will be effected probably...
...summoned Cincinnatus of Greece...