Word: algernon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...towed out of Portsmouth Harbor, past the moored Victory; 28 miles out, she was cast adrift. Her escorts' colors fluttered to half-mast, a guard of bluejackets aboard the Finisterre presented arms, and the bugler sounded last post. Then, at a signal from Rear Admiral Sir Algernon Willis, a charge of cordite blew the Implacable's bottom to smithereens...
...quality of Suckling or Lovelace. As a philosophical poet he almost never crystallized the clouds of theistic faith that filled his head. The great Lord Acton spoke of "the airiness of his metaphysics, the indefiniteness of his knowledge, his neglect of transitions." His criticism was put more gaily by Algernon Swinburne in his parody of Tennyson's Higher Pantheism...
...singular cases, started a craving few addicts restrain, started a saga of amateur aces, whimsical, taciturn, dashing, urbane . . ." Holmes Addict Christopher Morley (see BOOKS), who helped found the Baker Street Irregulars in the U.S., contributed a satire on espionage in Washington and the atom bomb. Oldtime (80) shudder man Algernon Blackwood wrote a story of horror in a child's nursery that was reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw. Said Editor Hall: "We want to produce the Rolls-Royce of detective magazines...
...amazement that I read about the smoking of a big, black cigar at the opera by Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton. Mrs. Throckmorton is my sister. Mrs. Throckmorton and I have been going to the opera since we were little girls of eight and nine, when our father, the musical critic, Algernon St. John Brenon, took us to hear Parsifal...
...Stoic" simply does not reach the stature of "The Financier" or "The Titan," its predecessors in "The Trilogy of Desire." In concluding what Parrington called "a colossal study of the American businessman," Dreiser tells those familiar with the earlier volumes little they do not already know about Frank Algernon Cowperwood, his hero. As for the reader with a casual interest in the business mind, he would do better to sample "The Financier" or "The Titan...