Word: flavius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short, "There's No Place Like Rome" lived up to its title and had us almost expelled by the management, high points being young hopeful Flavius calling for a vanilla popsicle, Roman gladiators rowing back from conquering Gaul in approved crew fashion, and man-eating lions charmed to rest by a jazz band wearing armor...
...Flavius Josephus, or Joseph ben Matthias, as his fellow-Jews called him, was a queer sort of hero. Feuchtwanger's first volume told how Josephus, after fighting the Romans like an unexceptionable patriot, turned his cloak into a toga to save what he might from the wreck of Judea. Thereafter he never completely got back his countrymen's confidence, never altogether won the Romans' respect. Josephus himself was never quite sure how he stood with himself. When his hated master, the Emperor Vespasian, died and his friend Titus came to the throne, Josephus' wave curled...
...cash plus five shares of stock in the Association. To lend prestige to his organization. Mr. Pfab also issued 50 shares of stock to each of 28 Tennessee superintendents and other locally prominent educators, who let him use their names as an advisory committee. One of these, Flavius Leal Browning, past president of the Tennessee State Teachers Association, became president of the National Educators' Mutual Association, while Mr. Pfab was executive vice president. With this imposing front the Association prospered mightily, soon had sold 1,000 bonds, taken in some...
...Flavius Searle Scholarship: Ferdinand F. McAllister, Brooklyn...
...Flavius Searle Scholarships: Harrison G. Pope, 4M, of W. Roxbury, Mass., A.B. 1931. Richard B. Pippett, 3M, of Port Jervis, N. Y., S.B. Hamilton...