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Word: byronic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun and Forget | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Married. Mrs. Jeannette P. Colgate, recent wife of Henry A. Colgate (soap), of Manhattan; to Byron V. Dexter, poet, of Morristown, N. J.; secretly, several months ago, following an introduction at amateur theatricals. Mr. Colgate, after a conference with his wife and Poet Dexter in Paris, agreed to a divorce, will pay his onetime wife $6,000 yearly to support their three children, $6,000 yearly for herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...show by an analysis of the content, style or diction of three of the following passages in what ways they are characteristic of their authors or of the times in which they were written." The passages were taken from William Langland, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, Lord Byron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard v. Yale | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...from English authors of different periods. The student was to analyze the content, style, and diction of three of the passages, telling why they were characteristic of their authors and the times in which they were written. The quotations were taken from Langland, Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, and Byron...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLASTIC TILT BETWEEN HARVARD AND YALE FINISHED | 5/1/1928 | See Source »

...unless Democrats prevent, which is unlikely, Mrs. McCormick will be elected to Congress in November. She will undoubtedly make an active, vigorous member; for while the locations of her four residences-a ranch in Wyoming; a farm at little Byron, Ill..; a camp in Virginia; an ancient manor in Georgetown, well out of Washington-bespeak her inclination to "get away from it all," still she is far more the intense realist than the intellectual recluse. She sees no sex in statesmanship. She says she knows some women who are qualified right now for Cabinet positions. Some day, she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Illinois | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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