Word: maximus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee cannot agree except with the concurrence of German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, both of whom are familiar with the tactics of that Ancient Roman, Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunetator ("The Delayer") who deployed Rome's legions with such persistent avoidance of battle that when at last he was ready to fight, the wearied Carthaginians were routed. In case the mild tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus (died 203 B. C.) do not avail in 1937, II Duce and Der Führer can always get tough...
...Greek tragedies dancing entered the theatre, developed until it followed a play's mood as surely as the choral chanting. Dancing in Greece was greatly respected for its fluent beauty, the healthful exercise it offered. But Rome preferred gaudy pageantry, chariot-racing, the bloody games of the Circus Maximus. Linked with these as the Empire's entertainment, dancing got a thoroughly bad name, incurred the enmity of the Christian Church. Yet in the early Catholic Mass Author Kirstein discerns seeds of the present dance-drama and through the early mystery plays the theatre was to begin to reassert...
Italy. The Circus Maximus of ancient Rome was first a vast, open field, later a tiered U-shaped structure built of wood. So many fires broke out in the stables and contestants' quarters that in the 2nd Century B. C. it was reconstructed of stone from the quarries of Tibur-a light stone that turned a rich ochre with age. In the Middle Ages the Circus was buried by silt from the hills, and sheds and hovels were built on top of it. Now Fascist Italy, recalling the bellicose glories of her antiquity, has decided to lay bare...
...pistol cracked. Up went the wire around the turtles in the ring's centre. The Dog House's Hot Dog (by Experiment, out of Mongrel) pulled in its neck and went to sleep. The Medical Clinic's Gluteus Maximus (by Cracked Pot, out of Whack) plunged madly toward the finish line, saw a bug, lost interest. Neck up and bobbing. Maple Leaf I (Buy British, out of God's Country) plugged steadily toward the 38-ft. circle's rim. A breeze whipped the Union Jack stuck on its back as it stepped across the line...
...mincer of words, though without his once reported "cursing & swearing," Peter stormed and threatened-threatened to close the Pearly Gates to the perpetrator of TIME'S misstatement. Ghost, Pontifex Maximus; follower, disciple, and first-commander under Founder Jesus Christ, but no founder of Church, Peter...