Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Readers' popularity spread and Professor McGuffey marched up to his famed Sixth Reader, he thought less of his pious models, drew freely on Shakespeare, Byron, Scott, Whittier, all of whom he hacked to suit his purpose. He launched a series of Great Characters, solemnly revealed that Louis XVI "took his very emetics in state, and vomited majestically in the presence of all his nobles." Of Lafayette: "Others have lived in the love of their own people; but who, like this man, has drunk his sweetest cup of welcome with another?'' But the editor's favorite Great...
...early years of the 19th Century, when England was ruled by the fat and foolish Prince of Wales, when Beau Brummell set the fashions, when Byron was revelling in the popular success of Childe Harold, a sprightly young lady named Harriette Dubochet, who had run away from home to become a prostitute, was at the height of her career. Very small with brown hair and large eyes, the daughter of a well-to-do stocking-mender, her life as a courtesan was not sufficiently distinguished to win her a place in history. She exercised no political influence, such...
Better than any living man, Senator Byron Patton Harrison of Mississippi represents in his own spindle-legged, round-shouldered, freckle-faced person the modern history of the Democratic Party. For all but a fraction of the years since the fledgling Republican Party rose to power in 1860, the lot of the Democrats in national politics has been to denounce and deplore. For all but a fraction of his 17 Senatorial years, Pat Harrison, a Democrat by temperament as well as by birth and conviction, has played his Party's historic role with superb skill and enjoyment...
...book-length biography of Gorrie has ever been written. His story was told last week in Scientific Monthly by Professor George Byron Roth of George Washington University. Born in Charleston, S. C. in 1803, John Gorrie studied medicine in the North - exactly where, no one knows. He began practice in the seaport of Apalachicola, Fla., took such an interest in municipal affairs that he became postmaster, city treasurer, city councillor, mayor. Fever descended on Apalachicola every summer and Dr. Gorrie found it impossible to treat his patients in the hot weather. The earnest young physician thought the best thing...
...most versatile American scholars, Jones has written poetry, plays, a bibliography of Byron's works, a biography of Moses Colt Tyler, and a study of American and French culture (1750-1848). At present he holds a Guggenheim Fellowship for research work on a biography of Tom Moore. It is expected that he will conduct a course on the novel at Harvard...