Word: senecas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ancient Tradition. Actually Washington's ghostly authors were only bringing mass-production methods to an even more ancient if questionable tradition. Scholars hold that Nero's speeches were written by his tutor, Seneca. Aulus Hirtius is credited with turning out part of Julius Caesar's Commentaries. A good part of George Washington's Farewell Address was probably written for him by Alexander Hamilton...
...cloudburst at Auburn, Republican Congressman John Taber's home town. They cheered lustily as Harry Truman berated Taber for using "a butcher knife and a saber and a meat ax . . . on every forward-looking program . . ." There were more crowds at Schenectady, Amsterdam, Little Falls, Utica, Rome, Oneida, Syracuse, Seneca Falls, Geneva, Rochester, and Buffalo. And there would be great crowds again this week as the President toured the Middle West. Politicos and columnists seemed puzzled by the phenomenon. But the President himself, with a peculiar combination of frankness and naiveté, offered a plausible explanation. Said...
...intrepid band of ladies, full of git & gumption, descended on Seneca Falls, N.Y., to declare a rebellion against "the repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman." These injuries, they said, had as their direct object the establishment of an "absolute tyranny" over woman...
Alan W. Brown '30, assistant to the Dean of Columbia College, Columbia University, was named president of the Colleges of Seneca-Hobart and William Smith by the board of trustees Monday...
...Lord Vansittart who wrote, but he was quoting not himself but Velleius Paterculus, a 1st-Century Roman historian. He added similar testimony from Tacitus, Seneca, Symmachus, Claudian, Nazarius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ennodius, Quintilian and Josephus. This battery of authorities punctuates Vansittart's latest book on Germany: Bones of Contention (Knopf; $2.75), which was published in Britain last March and appears in the U.S. this week...