Word: nero
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...found to have faults just as grievous as their less famous brethren, and the more noted they were the less were they to be revered when their real selves came to light. But heretofore the public has been left its faith in the bad men of times past. From Nero to the Kaiser, various luckless individuals have been the target of unanimous invective and scorn, and few attempts to deny them their titles have been made...
...lusts and meagre rascality grown enormous through the grandeur of the empire which they destroyed. In writing about them, it is hard to make them merely human; some aura of the supernatural clings to the absurd magnificence of their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined not by a historian but by a novelist. Author Kostolanyi, a Hungarian who writes in German, well translated by Clifton P. Fadiman, makes him a weak man, a pathetic youth unable to learn how to live, "a bad poet and a bad ruler." Whether this...
...been prepared with an eye to the smut smellers and moral snoopers who, a few years since, swore out a warrant for the apprehension and arrest of the author, patently a fellow named Arbiter, who could probably be located in the phone book. Their failure to lay hands on Nero's contemporary seemed in on way to discourage the crusaders, but rather encouraged them to harry the publishers to such good effect that soon the first impression was to be had only by the wealthy with good booklegging connections. The present adaptation seems desinged for the less affluent who must...
...German boarhound, one Nero, followed the improvident example of the U. S. tourists until he finally sagged down op the deck in utter exhaustion, refusing food and whining in alarm at the large, low, red disc of the Midnight Sun. On the return journey, when night first descended, its coming was greeted by Boarhound Nero with rich, prolonged, joyous baying...
...This man who is held responsible for the killing of 50 or 60 young men who dared to defy his power was held to be nothing less than a Nero...