Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Idaho's Republicans, at any rate, preferred their 71-year-old statesman to Townsendism. In the Republican primary Senator Borah got 30,000 votes to the 9,000 massive-browed Byron Defenbach got from hopeful oldsters...
Intelligent New Engenders were esteemed in Europe as citizens of a young republic who represented a kind of life Europe had never known. When wellborn, serious, intelligent George Ticknor traveled there in 1815 he met Byron, who was pleased with him; Goethe, who was also pleased with him. Ticknor was typical of the travelers who found intellectual stimulation abroad, brought back food for speculation that quickened the minds of a generation, yet did not lose his sense of allegiance and duty to his own country as did the later expatriates. At the end he is seen as a dry, superior...
...Francisco theatrical troupe. She traveled East with the company, left it because of the manager's unwelcome attentions, was stranded in New York until she got a part in a road show. She was becoming well-known as an actress, had been engaged to Arthur Byron, refused the proposals of several eminent theatrical figures, when she married Baron Guido von Nimptsch, sad-faced, 44-year-old German aristocrat who had lost his personal fortune and was engaged in the champagne business in Manhattan. With him she returned to Germany, was presented to the Kaiser, learned that her husband...
George Gordon Lord Byron's "lameness was due to congenital clubfoot of the talipes equino-varus type, affecting the right foot only." Ill at ease with men the poet turned to women and there "his success to some extent palliated the pain which deformity had inflicted on his pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected...
...celebrities are numerous and strange. They include the Duke of Kent, Victoria's father; her beloved governess, the Baroness Lehzen; the Duke of Clarence, afterwards King William; Lord Melbourne, whose wife had been Caroline Lamb, Byron's widely-publicized mistress; King Leopold of Belgium, who thought he could control England through his influence with Victoria and the Prince Consort; Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Tennyson, George...