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...deputies. Carthage's wealth and splendor made him fear for Rome's preëminence. He developed a mortal hate and fear of Carthage, much like the mania U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama now has against the Roman Catholic Church. Senator Cato drove his point home by concluding all his speeches with the phrase: Delenda est Carthago! ("Carthage must be destroyed!") The year Cato died, Rome started her third Punic War (149-146 B.C.) and Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus the Younger literally did destroy Carthage. He killed all the inhabitants, razed every building, sprinkled salt...
...gown. Miss Bainter: "Why, Kalonika, you weren't pregnant last night." Miss Hopkins: "But I didn't know it last night!" Indicative of the plight of the men was the piteous condition of Kinesias (Ernest Truex). He fidgeted, pranced and pleaded with tantalizing Miss Alden. He drove his spear into the ground, he waved his arms, he bellowed. But until peace was made, the women were adamant. Followed a jubilee, with dancers, music, lights and shouting united in a single impulse calculated by Author Aristophanes to delight oldtime Athens, and by his modern producers to amaze contemporary propagandists...
...During my younger days in Wall Street I had contact with the older financiers and with the great railroad barons-the ferocious cigar-chewing men who drove back the frontier with every blow on an iron spike. Then years later I was in Washington during the most stirring period of the War; and after that I went to Paris and saw the statesmen of a dozen flags sew the map of Europe into something they hoped would stay together. . . . I've had a vivid life...
...Tufts aggregation started scoring in the second inning, when they drove two runs across in consecutive hits. This batting skirmish was repeated in the fourth and seventh frames, when the Tufts nine scored four runs in each frame...
After their craft capsized the oarsmen clung to it for some time, but despite their efforts the waves drove it against the Basin wall. Later examination revealed an eight inch split in the how and a large hole in the stern...