Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Wiegler presents a portfolio of 21 thumbnail biographies: impressionistic studies of men and women of genius. Some are boudoir, some bedside scenes. Heloise and Abelard, separated for life, long for each other and finally share a grave; Byron, fair, fattish and 40, dies of fever at Missolonghi; Goethe walks through the night to one of his many assignations; Oscar Wilde, under his enforced pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth, dies a pariah at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris; George Sand and Alfred de Musset kiss and wrangle; Tolstoy, in his last illness, flees his troublesome wife and dies...
...Byron Satterlee Hurlbut '87, Professor of English, died last night at 11.30 o'clock at the Cambridge Hospital after a brief illness. No announcement as to funeral services has been made. He is survived by his wife...
...professors have been voted leaves of absence. Dean Hector J. Hughes '94, of the Harvard Engineering School will be on sabbatical leave during the second half of 1929-30. Professor H. E. Clifford '89, has been named as Acting Dean of the School of Engineering during Dean Hughes' absence. Byron Satterlee Hurlbut '87, professor of English, will be absent during the second half of 1929-30, on sabbatical leave. Professor Richmond Laurin Hawkins '03, of the Department of French, was granted leave of absence during the academic year...
...CRIMINAL CODE?Arthur Byron magnificent in a play about...
Broken Dishes. Playwright Martin Flavin is lucky in the men chosen to play his heroes. His plays do not need bolstering, but The Criminal Code, one of the most pungent of the season's hits, is undeniably better for the presence of the virtuoso Arthur Byron, and Broken Dishes would certainly suffer by the removal of Donald Meek. It is the venerable story of the henpecked husband who finally revolts against his wife and gleefully dons his rightful, symbolic trousers. This time he is stirred to action by his extraordinarily pretty third daughter (Bette Davis) who wants to marry...