Word: caesars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Infatuation. Titles are running badly this week. This is what they called Somerset Maugham's Caesar's Wife. It tells of an English minister to Egypt whose pretty wife fell in love with a pretty undersecretary. Corinne Griffith and Percy Marmont make it good enough...
...Green Fan, Erasmus Scroggs, Browning J. A. V., Lionel Lee, Yan, Albert Seewald, George O. N., Jonson and Boswell, The Nobles, Me, Alfred A. Lunt, John M. Hanoe, Osiris, Wireless Willy, The Skipper, Mayfair, O. Henry (single applicant), Bel Enfant, Alfred Augustus Baker, Los Vaqueros, Watt Hour Meter, Caesar, John X. Stevenson, Jaina Square, Mr. Micawber, The Triple Threat, Charles Hawkins, Barnacle, Edward I. A. Stockton Lansdowne, Unus, G. Havaheart, Folly of 1927, Little Applesauce, Ichabod Crane, M. Sans Souci, General Cord, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford
...analyzes progress under the Constitution. The book includes three lectures before the University of Virginia Law School?Progress in Institutions, Progress in Industry, Progress in Foreign Relations. The life of civilized man in our day differs more from George Washington's than Washington's from that of Julius Caesar; Jefferson, in a desk drawer at Monticello, is said to have had the constitutions of 100 democracies?all failures: these statements preface Mr. Baker's explanation of the endurance of ours by reason of its lack of definiteness and detail and its early administration under leadership the character and traditions...
...last week in an upholstered committee room in the Woolworth Building. They were members of the Manhattan Merchants' Association-a Special Committee on the Simplification of the Calendar. They discussed the various inconveniences which the world has been compelled to put up with since the days of Julius Caesar because of the clumsy time-divisions with which that dictator encumbered civilization...
Androcles, however, is a genuine triumph. Henry Travers, veteran of many a Guild production, plays the lead amazingly amusingly. Miss Eames and Mr. Powers redeem themselves with excellent performances, and an actor named Edward G. Robinson is immensely satisfactory as Caesar...