Word: morituri
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...enforced) by the League of Nations during the Ethiopian campaign. Italians rallied behind him then. They may do so more generally now than the Allies expect. At least Mussolini has built up a façade of bravado, patterned on the ancient cry of the gladiators in the Colosseum : "Morituri te salutant" (Those who are about to die salute you). But in case the façade trembles or Darlans gnaw their way through it, Mussolini has made certain that those who helped him to power, and those who have been crawling on his back, will be with him when...
...From the salutation of Roman gladiators on entering the arena-Ave, Imperator, morituri te salutamiis...
...editor so truly sez at th' end uv his editoriul. "Morituri Salutamus" I fully agree with him, but I think they're lettin too many uv these foreigners inter th' country...
...verse, Mr. Pulsifer's "Palace of Heart's Desire" is distinctly the best in conception and expression. "The West Today is a dithyramb, and rises at moments to dithyrambic unintelligibility, as in the first line, "Land that the lakes have brided." The lingling anapests of "Morituri Salutamus" seem fitter to "Here's a health to King Charles" than to the bleeding and tearful gladiator. "Jealousy" is an aptly turned conceit in four lines; and "Will of the Wisp" has a good second stanza...
...hope that the new editors of the Era will heed the warning contained in the title to the valedictory of the outgoing board, - "Morituri Salutamus...