Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South. The central figure is a bewildered Southern gentleman with whiskers, who finds that the Negroes no longer obey him; that reverence and elegance play little part in modern industrial life. These various factors are knit into an uneven play which kills four people (three offstage) every evening. Arthur Byron,* usually urbane and neatly pressed, does well with the bewhiskered ancient...
...indomitably behind the tinkling bell of his pilot boat. He, stone blind, finally gave up. One man was seized with mumps. Edward Keating, winner of the Lake George marathon, was dragged out, cramped. Lee J. Smith, legless swimmer, lost his chance for the prize by rescuing a drowning opponent. Byron Summers, the California "flying fish," swam to the tune of a band in his boat, swam many miles, caught cramps when in second place. Ethel Hertle, 15 miles out and in third place, collapsed with cold. Edith Heden, Finn, screamed with pain and was taken out, bitten by eels. "Women...
Last week, for instance, Senator Byron Patton Harrison of Mississippi announced that taxes should be reduced by no less than $500,000,000. Democrat Harrison is a member of the Senate Finance Committee and so, in a position to make his views felt. Meanwhile Republican Senator Reed Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, said that a reduction of more than $300,000,000 would be unsafe. Both Senators Harrison and Smoot agreed on one point-the desirability of calling a special session of Congress in October. Some weeks ago Senator Smoot visited President Coolidge (then in Washington) and announced that...
...founded the American League of professional baseball clubs. He was the dominating factor in the control of organized baseball from 1900 to 1927. Last week he-President Byron Bancroft Johnson of the American League-turned in an obviously dictated resignation to close ingloriously a notable career. His defeat left Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis (who occupies in baseball a position analagous to that of Will H. Hays in the cinema industry) unchallenged as baseball's dictator. Ever after Commissioner Landis' appointment (in 1920, following bribery in the World's Series of 1919) there was rivalry, warfare between...
...GOLDEN COMPLEX?Lee Wilson Dodd?John Day ($1.75). Ably if without great acumen Author Dodd proposes the inferiority complex as an answer to the questions, "Why was Byron a poet?" "Why was Cain a murderer?" "Why was Francis of Assisi a saint?" Reminds Author Dodd: "Let me remind you of the former Kaiser's withered arm?the most dangerous deformity ever visited upon European civilization. 'They shall feel,' said Wilhelm to himself, 'that I am not a weakling!' Let me remind you of the late Theodore Roosevelt's rickety body...