Word: heliogabalus
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...have long made desperate attempts to keep cool. In the summer of A.D. 221, Roman Emperor Heliogabalus sent i.ooo slaves into the mountains for snow to cool his gardens. Sweltering men have produced bizarre notions too: one 19th century inventor drew a fanciful suit of Venetian blinds, including a Venetian-blind hat. Various theaters and the Hungarian Parliament tried blowing air over massive amounts...
...sentence and execution a "judicial assassination,'' yet there is a dark blot on his martyr's shroud-the Black Diaries, "200 pages of concentrated erotica," found in his lodgings. If authentic, the diaries proved Casement probably the most industrious sodomite since the days of Heliogabalus. According to Casement's supporters, the diaries were forged, possibly by the British, to destroy Casement's image as a patriot-martyr. The diaries were clearly in his handwriting; Casement's defenders contend implausibly that they were in fact written by someone else but copied-for some obscure reason...
...plain cover", and the CRIMSON congratulates its old friend for submitting so gracefully to the slings of fortune; though the Lampoon has thus half sunk from its former estate, there will be no love lost because of it. There is all half to that noble company of Heliogabalus, Alice Foote MacDougall, and the Harvard Lampoon...
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