Word: dionysius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queen Wilhelmina gave her aged favorite a free hand in forming a new Cabinet, but the Catholics would not cooperate and an alliance between Anti-Revolutionaries and Socialists was unthinkable. After three tries he gave up. The Queen asked conservative Catholic Dr. Dionysius A. P. N. Koolen to see what he could do, but even his own party was lukewarm in its support. Last week it was Dr. Colijn's turn again, and he finally produced a Cabinet of hoary oldsters, former Cabinet members and long-pensioned colonial officials. The new Government represents but a small section of Parliament...
...Third Century, Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria, Egypt wrote to a colleague: "Apollonia the parthenos presbytis [elderly virgin] was held in high esteem. These men seized her . . . and by repeated blows broke all her teeth. They then erected outside the city gates a pile of fagots and threatened to burn her alive if she refused to repeat after them impious words. Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire and was burned to death...
...amount he gets done each day is enormous. He's now in the process of writing a book on politics; has about finished "The Realm of Truth", and incidentally is revising a little play: "Philosophers At Court" concerning Plato's visit to Dionysius at Syracuse. At present for relaxation he's reading Latin poetry and touching up a few sonnets. He writes easily but carefully. Manuscripts are set aside for long periods of time; then if necessary undergo severe revision. It is no wonder he's been called the best modern prose stylist. Yet you will recall he didn...
...Some say the flowers are her children and, every time one kneels to kiss her, new flowers come up. But no one really knows. Yet it is quite possible, for there are many different flowers there: Roses, Honeysuckles, Water Lilies; yes, and poison Ivy--perhaps for the tyrant Dionysius--and a catcus plant...
...bastard Greek, which no Athenian could understand today. Then he gave me goat's milk and blessed me; asked me to take his picture, and so I did. Thus endeth my great trip adventure of exploration, a sad failure. But tomorrow I go to Syracuse to whistle in Dionysius' Ear, see Venus Anadyomene, and bask in the memory of Plato, Pindar and Aeschylus...