Word: tarquin
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...There isn't any difference between Hitler and Mussolini, Tarquin in ancient Rome, the tyrants in Sparta, Charles I of England, Louis XIV and Stalin. They are all just alike. Alexander I of Russia was just as much a dictator as any that ever existed. They believed in the enslavement of the common people...
...open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine in them. California cautiously separated the conservative sheep from the modern goats, awarded two sets of prizes. First prize (conservative) went to 31-year-old Chet Engle for his satirical self-portrait Tarquin. First prize (modern) went to 39-year-old Sueo Serisawa, for his portrait of his wife, Mary 1949. (Said Serisawa, who won honorable mention in last year's Pepsi-Cola competition with Mary 1948: "I use my wife as a model because she's always available around...
Only one American-bred horse was competing in the historic race, first run in 1776: Black Tarquin,* owned by the chairman of New York's Jockey Club, William Woodward. In the Derby, Black Tarquin had finished eighth, and most bettors figured that he lacked staying powers for the mile-and-three-quarters St. Leger. The American colt, ridden by Australian Jockey Edgar Britt, settled down well to the rear, made no move until the stretch. Then, with only two furlongs to go, he put on a brilliant burst of speed to win from Alycidon, an outsider, by a length...
Much of Rome's early history was shaped by the Sibyl's dictates, whose records eventually filled nine Sibylline Books. Tarquin the Proud (534-510 B. C.), last of Rome's legendary Kings, wanted to buy the Books but refused to pay the great sum the Sibyl demanded. She destroyed six of the sacred nine. When he paid the original price for the remaining three and took them to Rome, Romans no longer had to make a long journey to learn what they wanted to do. The Cumaean Sibyl and her grotto lapsed into a legend—until...