Word: jove
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Mussolini with an emperor's fillet encircling his brow. Mussolini staring ferociously from sightless eyes, frowning like omnipotent Jove. Mussolini represented by a bust of sinister green bronze, ten times natural size. Such was the symbol of imperialism which arrived recently at Manhattan,U.S. A., and was shipped to Boston last week as the chief item in a traveling exhibit of Italian art, which has been both sponsored and censored by the Fascist Government...
...anyone doubt this hedonistic theory of royal migrations, let him remember that on the morning the Prince of Wales embarked from New York he was distinctly heard to murmur something about "Jolly! Ripping! Best ev-ah! By Jove!" This is generally interpreted to mean that he came for a good time...
...just man, tenacious of his purpose, is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow-citizens bidding what is wrong nor by the face of a threatening tyrant nor by the uncontrollable storms of the sea nor by the mighty hand of thundering Jove. If the vault of Heaven should break and crash upon him, he would stand amid its ruins undismayed...
...singles match he "toyed" with Harold Throckmorton, 6-1, 6-2. When things grew dull, or when Throckmorton strove a little too valiantly, Tilden let loose a few fast ones that made Jove and his thunder look like a slow-ball pitcher...
...thinker and his work?" said the late Professor Royce to his class one day. "He doubts, analyzes, pries into this and that, and men say, 'How dry, how repellent, how unpractical, how remote from life!' But after all he is prying into the secret places of the lighting of Jove, for these thoughts and passions upon which he reflects move the world." -Boston Herald...