Word: titus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tisha b'Av, the ninth of the Hebrew month of Av (July 23 in 1942), is the saddest day in the Jewish year. Dating from the destruction of the First Temple at Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, it also commemorates the destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman Emperor Titus, the expulsion of Jews from Spain...
...more or less well-authenticated Rembrandt oils, the Metropolitan chose only the 16 finest, surrounded them with a comprehensive collection of etchings and drawings. They included the Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, the portrait of Rembrandt's son Titus, the bulbous-nosed Self Portrait showing the artist at 54. The exhibition proved again that Rembrandt was far and away the greatest of those few painters in history who have rivaled writers like Balzac and Dostoevski in their ability to delineate the individual human soul...
Precedents there were aplenty. In 70 A.D. Roman legions under Titus destroyed Jerusalem, slaughtered 1,100,000, sent 97,000 into slavery. Attila the Hun sacked and burned all of Northern Italy, spared Rome only after Pope Leo I appeared in the Hun camp with an eloquent plea for the Holy City. Genghis Khan butchered the people of Samarkand, razed the city...
...prodigality, Director Ruggles avoided the temptation to let his camera linger longingly on this impressive and costly background. He hewed to the narrative of pretty Phoebe Titus (Tomboy Jean Arthur), the only white woman in Tucson, who earns herself a pretty penny selling pies for $1 apiece, then goes into the freighting business. The gentleman with whom she later contracts Arizona's first all-white marriage is genial, peripatetic Peter Muncie (William Holden), a slim and smiling young pioneer who rides into Tucson with other settlers and passes some fond words with Phoebe before setting out for California...