Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solemn young Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa.: the $12,000 Belmont Open, world's richest tournament for professional golfers; defeating his neighbor, Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa. in the final, 5 & 4; in a driving rainstorm; at Belmont. Mass. Runner-up Picard's $2,000 share of the purse upped his season's winnings to $9,916, second to top money-winner Harry Cooper of Chicago who has accumulated $12,973. Nelson's winning share, $3,000, put him in fifth place...
...John Brown's body lay in state for days before he was buried at nearby North Elba. Last week it was packed with Elizabethtown's summer visitors. Nattily dressed in Hollywood sports-spectator clothing, La Verne Moore heard New York State Supreme Court Justice O. Byron Brewster deliver a scholarly oration, then grant his application for bail ($25,000). Said Judge Brewster in part...
Back on a newspaper, his boss, an enthusiast named Byron Cole, sold him on the idea of taking over Nicaragua. A fat prize, it turned out to be too fat-Walker had to meet competition from the feasting eyes of England, Spain, the U. S., the more glittering eye of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who controlled the lucrative transit route across Nicaragua. The deal by which Walker evaded U. S. neutrality laws provided that the Nicaraguan "Democrats" .invite him to send in "colonists." By the time the "Democrat" leaders realized what Walker was up to, it was too late to regret having...
...Arthur Byron ("A. B.") Jenks is a ruddy, 6-ft., grey-haired onetime shoe manufacturer and Manchester, N. H. banker who, after retiring from business, devoted himself to his wife's favorite game of golf so assiduously that in 1930 and 1932 he was on a U. S. Senior Golf Association's team that crossed the ocean to play in England. One day last summer, some of Golfer Jenks's cronies at the Manchester Country Club, observing that no one had yet filed for the Republican Congressional primaries in their district, egged on their friend...
Three years after Lord Byron died at Missolonghi muttering "Courage!" to imagined troops, the romantic Greek rebellion against the Turks still flickered in Attica, still held the sympathies of many a U. S. and English citizen. On July 19, 1827, for instance, the U. S. frigate Constitution anchored in the Straits of Salamis and quietly and unofficially sent ashore a boatload of provisions to Greek revolutionaries hiding on the small island of Psyttaleia. Before Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson could sail away, however, he was persuaded by the Greeks to buy a huge mutilated statue of great antiquity which had been...