Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duce, a volume of 352 pages in which space is found to depict several mistresses. Thus this great lady is the ideal Italian type of completely self-effacing signora pòr bene-a phrase which cloaks her with all the matronly virtues and proclaims that, as befits Caesar's wife, she is transcendently above suspicion...
Came the army to Bath, over an ancient road built for the war chariots of Julius Caesar. Bath, too, has its fair quota of pretty girls and they likewise enticed the young men from their weariness, while the older ones enjoyed rest...
...other words, though this life is one that can easily be read at one sitting, it should be taken as a novel--not as an accurate estimate of Rome or Caesar. There are, it is true, very few actual misstatements of fact, but one whole side of the picture is totally omitted, the emphasis is misplaced, the significance distorted...
...usual with the more pretentious books published by Brentano's, "Julius Caesar" is an excellent piece of bookmaking. The illustrations by W.D. White should also be mentioned, especially the graphic one showing the murder of Caesar...
...Julius Caesar and Boss Tweed ... Cleopatra and Coolidge ... Shelley and Trader Horn ... the flood of biographies comes pouring in out of the publishers' presses. Chaliapin and Bismarck ... Napoleon and His Women Friends ... Robespierre and Uncle Joe Cannon ... with every anecdote that ever murmured about them in five point type. All the state secrets the private correspondence, the family albums, the unkind word and the billet doux that was lost before it could be committed to the flames...