Word: nero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vadis. Italy herewith put in a bid for cinema consideration. To assist their bid, they hired Emil Jannings, the most distinguished picture actor on the Continent, and used Rome for background. Jannings played Nero. Characteristically, his performance was intelligent and distinctive. He gave the Emperor a judicious mixture of viciousness and humor. Otherwise, the film was inconspicuous. There were a great many actors and a good deal of scenery, but the swift smoothness of Hollywood was lacking...
...fact that Asa was King of Judah can be concealed now from none. Ninety per cent, of the people believe there was only one Roman Emperor and his name was Nero...
Lenin's intellectuality was put at the service of a bloodless ideal, that of a mechanical civilization in which economic forces were everything and human forces nothing. He strove to realize it by methods that were as horrible as any that Nero in ancient Rome or the worst inquisitor of the middle ages used. There has not been in history a man who so well exemplified the hellishness of a great intellect utterly barren of the noble influences that come from the heart...
...Guen whom even Nero and Attila must envy...
...saved today from the ravages of consumption and pneumonia is one more to serve tomorrow as a target for gas waves and poison bombs. Destruction has always been a much more interesting pastime than mere beneficial prevention. This is proved by the popular renown of such geniuses as Attila, Nero, and Guy Fawkes, about whom every student of history reads with a secret feeling of fellowship. On the other hand very few could tell offhand the accomplishments of Laennec, Koch, or Takamine...