Word: caesar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Said Australia's Colonel William R. Hodgson: Mr. Krasilnikov is trying "to out-caesar his senior Caesars. ... In the past, the delegations here . . . have had to put up with calculated abuse and distortions from this particular Soviet representative...
...highest court also ruled (5-3) that a Chicago federal court had been wrong in ruling that the Lea act, a measure aimed at curbing Musicians' Czar James Caesar Petrillo, was unconstitutional. The court ruled that it was constitutional, and that radio stations do not have to hire Petrillo's stand-by musicians when broadcasting transcribed programs...
Togliatti is no sawdust Caesar. His manner is easy. His face has a studious look behind horn-rimmed glasses, with only a faint ironic hint of the trouble he has seen or is causing. Like France's Maurice Thorez, he is one of the few Communists with a smile-a smile that is somewhat sarcastic around the edges...
...Shadow State. On Capitol Hill, the Roman Senate tried for centuries to keep republican government alive; the Caesars ended it. Today, at the foot of that hill, in the Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops), which runs almost exactly along Rome's ancient city limits, stands a smart red brick house; there'rules the affable Palm-Branch Caesar of Italian Communism. His Communist Party organization is (as in all countries) a state within a state; in Italy, that shadow state happens to be more substantial than the feeble real...
Headmaster Fuess had, at least, been forthright. His first step was to abolish the compulsory classics; he found it "absurd to drive a boy with no aptitude for the subject two or three times through Caesar's Commentaries." He prefers to have only half his boys take Latin, "because they want...