Word: quintus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday's race, postponed from Friday when Lowell broke an oar in a reversion to tactics first popularized by Quintus Fabius Maximus '00, was clocked at the respectable time of 4:15, sans tailwind...
George Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb and Quintus Fabius Maximus were born so long ago that they were not able to get to the meeting. But hundreds of other Fabians crowded solemnly into Albert...
...quit the Fabians because they slighted the arts, let bygones be bygones and conducted the overture to Die Meistersinger and the Fantasia from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. As the music died away, the blue curtains parted. After a slight (inevitable) delay, the large balding head of Quintus Fabius Maximus' disciple Harold Laski popped through the white backdrop. Laski, peering over the big red carnation in his buttonhole, advanced to the rostrum followed by Prime Minister Attlee, Lord President of the Council Herbert Morrison, Food Minister John Strachey and Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson, all wearing red carnations...
...continent. To the always confident British this was not surprising. But the only reasonable explanation for the Italians' hasty retreat on all fronts was either that the Italians had lost their military minds or that Benito Mussolini had taken a leaf from the book of an ancient compatriot, Quintus Fabius Maximus...