Word: algernon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibition of undergraduate magazines of the nineteenth century in England, edited by men later to become famous as authors, is being held in the Widener Room of the Widener Library for the next two weeks. Among the men who contribute to these magazines are Robert Louis Stevenson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, Lewis Carroll, and William Makepeace Thackeray...
...late Law Professor Algernon Sidney Biddle of the University of Pennsylvania, Francis Biddle, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, trained for the battle of the New Deal on the playing fields of Groton. Harvard College sent him to Harvard Law School which graduated him in 1911. To him fell the prized cachet of being chosen as the man in his class to serve Oliver Wendell Holmes for a year as that Supreme Court Justice's secretary. But Francis Biddle has not confined his activities since school days exclusively to the law. He has written a novel about Philadelphia (The Lanfear Pattern), book...
...Author, at a defenseless age, was patted in his pram by the late great Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, but this laying-on of hands produced no precocious poetics. The eighth of a large family (ten) of mixed German, Irish and English blood, Robert von Ranke Graves was born in London (1895), educated at Charterhouse and in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Like many of his English generation he was a battle-scarred veteran when he went up to Oxford (St. John's College) as an undergraduate. Already established as one of the outstanding poets of the War, he turned...
...Herbert Hoover were never accused of bribery-by-belly when they hauled hollow-eyed politicians out of bed to attend early breakfasts at the White House and listen to Presidential persuasion. But Britain took the Churchill charge seriously. Grave under his wig, Speaker the Rt. Hon. Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy allowed the resolution to be passed, without vote, to the Committee on Privilege for investigation...
Seven years later he had her dug up again, published the poems. The Pre-Raphaelites had lost their ascetically youthful idealism. By the time Algernon Charles Swinburne joined Rossetti the upright Ruskin had washed his hands of him; Pre-Raphaelite Rossetti had graduated into "the fleshly school." Drugs, his guilty conscience, his Cockney mistress Fanny Cornforth, helped him downhill fast. By 1885 the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was long dead, buried, waiting for its resurrection...