Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Noel Lord Byron laid down his pen and his life of a Greek fever in the embattled swamps of Missolonghi. The present bio-novel might be regarded as a belated contribution to the centenary, atoning for its tardiness by its fervor. But such is hardly the case. The author of The Chaste Diana (Lavinia Fenton, later the Duchess of Bolton, who took the part of Polly Peachum in the original production of the Beggars' Opera) and The Divine Lady (Lady Hamilton), is a person who discerns the folly of conceiving a colorful biography and embroidering it to the current...
Captain D. G. A. Lowe of Cambridge was conceded to have small chance of winning the mile against such runners as Ellsworth, "Red" Haggerty, Byron Cutcheon. To begin with, Lowe was tired. He had already spent himself to take the half-mile in the fast time of 1:53 2/5; moreover, it was obvious that the U. S. combination had passed a word around in the locker-room: "Kill off Lowe." First Cutcheon set a parching pace. Lowe seemed tired. Haggerty replaced Cutcheon, looking over his shoulder at the dark-haired, the Arab-skinned Lowe, three yards behind. So they...
Marietta College (Marietta .Ohio) was visited by Vice President Charles G. Dawes, '84, and by Byron Bancroft Johnson, President of the American Baseball League. Crowds cheered as Mr. Johnson received an honorary A.B. degree, allegedly so flustering the proud recipient that he had difficulty in readjusting the unfamiliar academic cap as he retreated to his chair...
...McClellan; favorite preceptor, Nylander; favorite coach, Fitzpatrick; favorite dormitory, '79; favorite sport to watch, football; favorite sport to play, tennis; favorite novel, "Tom Jones"; favorite poem, "If"; favorite play, "Cyrano de Bergerac"; favorite movie, "The Woman of Paris"; favorite fiction writer, "Day" Edgar; favorite artist, Coles Phillips; favorite poet, Byron; worst poet, "Helz-Belz"; favorite newspaper, New York Times; favorite magazine, Saturday Evening Post...
...poetry the Advocate is more ragged and uncertain. Richard Linn Edsall's "Ad Beatam Mariam Virgonem", adding nothing to mediaeval hymns in sentiment or diction, is noticeable for its subject matter among the vapidities of current taste, which undergraduates are fairly quick to imitate. Byron Cutcheon's "Requiem for the Poet" contains three good lines among a number of bad ones. "April Fool!" by Stuart Ayers is the best contribution in verse, disposing the manners of the day in four effective quatrains printed zigzag down the page. "My Pleasant Celia" is agreeable and neatly versified...