Word: algernon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ended with a ringing quotation from "England, an Ode," by a resonant rhymester even smaller than Philip Snowden, the late great Algernon Charles Swinburne...
...followed a cousinly battle of giants, du Pont against du Pont for great E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. The war had banking ramifications, Alfred obtaining control of Delaware Trust Co. and with it great power in Wilmington. It had its political aspects, Alfred fighting the late Colonel Henry Algernon du Pont in State politics and Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont fighting Alfred. It had its ramifications in the company, where Alfred, William and Francis du Pont were ousted from executive positions by a 55% vote of stock. It even was carried on socially, for Alfred divorced his wife...
...times a caustic but never a savage critic, Gosse made his reputation by discriminating paeans in praise of established figures, but he wrote appreciatively of such contemporaries as Algernon Charles Swinburne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrew Lang, Thomas Hardy, George Moore and many a younger man. It was to Gosse that Swinburne divulged his famed outburst against Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose reported remarks had offended Swinburne. When Gosse learned that Swinburne had written to Emerson, he said: " 'I hope you said nothing rash.' 'Oh, no.' 'But what did you say?' I kept my temper...
Since the Witch of Endor, rare are the artists who have raised a proper ghost. Bram Stoker raised one (Dracula]; Algernon Blackwood one (The Wendigo); Walter de la Mare, a few (The Return, On the Edge, TIME, Feb. 23): M. R. James several. Ghost-story addicts will welcome this collection of his four spooky books (Ghost Stories of An Antiquary, Afore Ghost Stories, A Thin Ghost and Others, A Warning to the Curious...
Sternly Speaker Edward Algernon Fitzroy of the House of Commons demanded that Scot McGovern come to order. But he stood his ground: "It was no crime for those four good men to go out on the green and preach! I demand Justice...