Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this audaciously frank autobiography, the most glamorous figure since Lord Byron shares with us his confessions and his memories. ... Strange wastrel days ... flashes of long-gone frolics ... These astounding confessions bid fair to become the sensation of the literary year," said a Ladies' Home Journal advertisement in October, 1925. The article, thus heralded, appeared: it was neither rowdy nor pornographic. It was the well-mannered and suave memoirs of John Barrymore. Titillatable females who had been led to expect red-hot nights increased the circulation of the Ladies' Home Journal and were undoubtedly disappointed...
...Rare Byron Shown...
Another rare book in the cases is the fifth edition of "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" by Byron. This edition is extremely uncommon because he caused it to be suppressed for personal reasons, shortly after it was put upon the presses...
...Battle of the Cousins which displaced all other Senate business; which turned Senators into a pack of snarling, sleepless animals; which littered the chamber with apple cores, pitchers of ice water and ancient documents. The time-filling tactics of the filibusterers were crude. Instead of reading Shakespeare or Byron, they had the clerk read yesterday's journal. Senator Cameron plodded through a document on copper mining, of which he could not pronounce some of the words. Senator Moses, protectionist, read a four-year-old low tariff speech of Senator Underwood. Senator Blease mouthed the Constitution of South Carolina...
...display also is a copy of Gray's "Odes" that was owned by Lord Byron when he was 16 years of age. In this is Byron's signature written in his longhand...