Word: pertinax
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...ready to vote for any bully or bribegiver who thrust himself forward. Among the worst of Emperors was Commodus, a vice-ridden brute who enjoyed fighting in the arena as a gladiator and was murdered by his favorite concubine and a wrestler. He was succeeded by the aged Pertinax, who tried to institute reforms, only to be murdered after 86 days by the unreformable Praetorian Guard. This garrison of swaggerers, who for a time held the real power in Rome, then insolently auctioned off the imperial throne to a wealthy Senator named Didius Julianus, who offered each guard the equivalent...
...Pertinax Surly (John Carito) sees through the alchemist but doesn't manage to outsmart him. Carito is particularly good when dressed up as a Spanish hidalgo pretending not to understand Subtle when he tells him, "You are a scurvy whoreson dog," to which he replied. "Gracias, gracias." Tribulation (Walter Matherly) and Ananias (Sam Guckenheimer) are two whacked-out sectaries from the most extreme of the Protestant lunatic frings; Kastrll (Lee Silverman) is suitably boorish but sometimes so much so that you can't understand what he's saying. Dame Pliant (Andrea Stein) is a dumb blonde who turns...
Died. André Géraud, 92, Cassandra-like French columnist known as Pertinax (Latin for resolute); in Ségur-le-Château, France. In his daily columns in Echo de Paris, Pertinax in the 1930s warned about the danger of appeasing Hitler. When Nazi panzers crushed France in 1940, he escaped via Bordeaux on an English destroyer. In the U.S. during the war, he wrote his best-known work, The Gravediggers of France, a historical exposé of the men responsible for his country's fall...
When it comes to putting Frenchmen into the tumbrels of political recrimination, none are more skillful than other Frenchmen. In The Gravediggers of France, in 1944, French Journalist Pertinax (André Géraud) called Paul Reynaud the third gravedigger (after Gamelin and Daladier and before Pétain and Laval). Reynaud now makes an eloquent case for the proposition that, if he helped dig the grave, it was really his political enemies who committed the murder and provided the corpse...
...Real Failure. Reynaud himself gives no answer to this question, but perhaps a clue might be found in the reminiscences of Pertinax. Reynaud had a mistress, Countess de Portes, whom nobody except Reynaud seems to have liked very much. He also had a wife. Anglo-Saxons believe that the French have a way of managing these things. Not so Paul Reynaud, who had the unhappy faculty of finding himself in the same salon with both ladies. It is possible to suspect that Paul Reynaud, for all his intelligence, lacked organizing ability. This is confirmed on the political level...