Word: byron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortune. One wonders whether the present structures will be peacefully razed by their liberally minded builders or tumble sanguineously, undermined by armed rebellion. If Mussolini, de Rivera, and Pangalos approach in wisdom Plato's ideal rulers, they will retire gracefully when they have set their respective lands in order. Byron sings of Miltiades...
...produced by innocuous sugar pills. Incidentally, his selection of poems is well made although far from exclusively of the best verse. It covers a wide range ?poems from F.P.A., A.E., Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Matthew Arnold, Hilaire Belloc, William Rose Benet, William Blake, Emily Bronte, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Byron, Lewis Carroll, S. T. Coleridge. Hilda Conklin, William Cowper, King David (three Psalms) etc., etc. Those who are accustomed to finding most anthologies a great bore, may well be pleased by this...
...John Duff Kenney, Exeter; Franklin Knight, Jr., Exeter; Walter Roosevelt Koch, St. Paul, (Minn.) Academy; George Carpenter Koss, Exeter; Paul Sylvester Lindquist, Exeter; Francis Smith Linn, Andover; John Joseph McGloin, Boston Latin School; William Henry McMaster, Jr., Exeter; Edward Reynolds McPherson, Jr. Exeter; Wilfred Mirsky, Boston Latin School; Sumner Byron Myers, Boston Latin School...
...person who is blatantly on the inside of everything, and can entertain the curious with bons mots and moth-eaten scandal for four hundred pages. The Greville Memoirs (unexpurgated--think of it!) are shortly to be published in this country; and the juicier bits about Queen Victoria, Lord Byron, the late Edward VII, and Disraeli will be aired to the great satisfaction of publishers and readers alike...
...George Bernard Shaw was one of the first men I met in London. I forget how I encountered him... He used to drop in and talk of his brilliant future and vow he would achieve it .... He had just written Cashel Byron's Profession, the only book of his I have ever read, and that because he gave it to me, though once later I heard him read Candida at H. W. Massingham's, and that was enough for me .... Soon The Star was started. Shaw was made Art Critic. I suppose it was writing on art that...