Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last company under investigation was Lake Erie Chemical, whose President Byron Cassius Goss was Chemical Service chief of the A. E. F.'s Second Army. Like his rival, Mr. Young, Colonel Goss insisted on the relative humanity of gas. From the files of Lake Erie Chemical Co. was extracted a letter insinuating that the American Legion could be induced to lobby against the Arms Embargo Bill in January 1933. Colonel Goss believed they had been so induced. Up from the committee table rose Senator Clark, one of the Legion's organizers and its second national commander, to roar...
...music. By degrees his oldtime popularity returned to him. He was invited again to Weimar for a part of each year. Hungary formed an Academy of Music, put him in charge, greeted him so exuberantly that he played the piano for the populace from a balcony. Like an aged Byron he continued to have love affairs, during one of which he was almost shot. Finally in honor of his approaching 75th birthday he went on a final grand tour. As it had when he was 20, Paris greeted him hysterically. This time London, too, was cordial; Victoria invited...
Readers of Mr. Sitwell's biography will find an earnest attempt to discover Liszt's true place in the history of music. Mr. Sitwell's estimate: like Byron. Liszt was the embodiment of his art, a poetical figure if not a great poet. The greatest of pianists, he became at Weimar the first executive of music, paved the way for followers...
...shining stars adorn the family diadem of Walter P. Chrysler. Son-in-law Byron Cecil Foy, who married Mr. Chrysler's eldest daughter Thelma, is, at 40, president of Chrysler-owned De Soto Motor Corp., famed sponsor of its airflow models. Son-in-law Edgar William Garbisch, 32, a burly West Point footballer who married Mr. Chrysler's second daughter Bernice, went to work for J. Stirling Getchell, Inc., Manhattan advertising agency which handles most Chrysler advertising, startled himself and friends by bagging the huge Socony-Vacuum account. Last week Motormaker Chrysler's chunky, art-loving son Walter...
...Frisco (First National). By the time a newshawk and a cameraman discover the body in a rumble seat, enough has happened in this picture to suggest many a motive for murder. Arlene Bradford (Bette Davis) is a moody socialite, addicted to thievery for fun. Daughter of a banker (Arthur Byron) whom she dislikes, she consorts with underworldlings, gets her name in gossip columns, disposes of stolen bonds through her fiance and the Honolulu manager of her father's business. When Banker Bradford becomes suspicious and recalls his manager from Honolulu, there are altercations in a speakeasy and mysterious stirrings...