Word: cleopatras
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...green motor launch (later to serve as Admiral's barge for Admiral Sir Edward Evans, commander-in-chief at The Nore), his escort consisting of four of Britain's new secret torpedo motor boats. Such a vast wash did they create that dozens of spectators near Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment were swept from their feet, nearly drowned...
...past few days he has been inspecting musty back numbers of TEMPUS-newsmagazine, a smart publication in Roma of about 19 or 20 centuries ago, and he was interested to note that for their issue for the year 30 B.C. or thereabouts they had the picture of Cleopatra as Woman of the Year...
From some of the issues immediately before and after the first of the year he learned that there had been three prominent entries for place as man of the year with strong boosters for each of them. There was Cleopatra, who it would seem was a woman of unusual charm; there was her boy friend, Mark Antony, so fascinated by her that he was neglecting affairs of public business to woo her; and there was one Novresibus, an officeholder who had just been re-elected in a landslide in which he had received 99 & 44/100 percent of the votes...
After due consideration of the claims of all three the editors of TEMPUS finally decided on Cleopatra and they placed her photograph on the title page with a bright red border around...
...verdict of time ever since that day seems to justify their selection. The name of Cleopatra shines out today as brightly as it did right after the battle of Actium; Antony has his place in the sun as her good friend; and as for Novresibus, well the name of Novresibus is just one more name that during the succeeding 100 years the Roman youngsters-excuse me, moppets-were obliged to memorize in the list of officeholders, in their history class at school...