Word: byron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cain. Lord Byron wrote it. It has never before been played in English. On its merits, the current production should be a guaranteed farewell appearance...
According to a despatch from West Frankfort, Ill., the motive power of The West Frankfort American's press ceased to function last week. Editor Byron Elkins cogitated. He stepped into the street, backed "a small automobile" into his shop, jacked up the wheels, attached a belt, ran off his editions "at the rate of 30 miles an hour." He alleged that he got "1,500 papers to a gallon of gasoline...
...Napoleon as an egoist surpassed in his megalomania the mere self-interest which distinguished the whole life of Byron. Napoleon was incapable of admiring anyone; Byron admired Napoleon, but he saw his shortcomings...
...Byron forever sought the public eye; Napoleon never needed to attract it--he compelled it," said Mr. Henry J. Golding in his speech on "The Egoists, Napoleon and Byron," at the Liberal Club yesterday afternoon. Of Napoleon he said, "He was a solitary man, while Byron could never be alone with himself, even in spirit. He was not able even to judge of his own best works...
...Morality did not exist for Napoleon: Byron only affected disregard of it. The poet's whole life, in fact, was a posture. He paraded himself before the whole of Europe, so that his life was spent upon a stage. While Shelley always sought the light, Byron sought the limelight. Disapprobation, even from the meanest of men cast him down...