Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only man Cynthia considers marrying. In spite of his pleading, she sails unwed for a vacation in Europe. En route she meets an attractive bounder (Sidney Blackmer) who dazzles her with poetic maunderings and the information that on his English estate there is a pool where Poets Byron and Brooke once swam. Also aboard is Olga (Muriel Kirkland), another self-made woman whose belief it is that "all men are alike. One day they kiss you; the next day they kick you.'' Cynthia blithely replies: "That's all right. You can see them every other...
...more than one reason for fêting the winner. He held a ticket on Hyperion in the sweepstakes of London's swank Maryborough Club. In Queens, N. Y. plump Telephone Operator Louise M. Popp. 27, won $118,500 with a 82 Irish sweepstakes ticket on Hyperion. John Byron, 73, Staten Island messenger, won $40,000 on Statesman...
...fact that he is the greatest writer of the age. Now he seems the beginner of a revolution. Seen in the light of history he may appear as the final product of one age rather than the initiator of another. We cannot predict, but we can always quote Byron...
...christened Byron Patton Harrison but Pat has become his common-law name. At Louisiana University he earned his tuition as a mess hall waiter while pitching on the college baseball team. Later he taught school, studied law, served as a local district attorney and, at 29, was elected to the House. In 1918 he performed a political miracle by defeating notorious James Kimble Vardaman for the Senate and taking over the seat once occupied by Jefferson Davis. His first ten years in a Republican Senate were ones of irresponsible fun at the expense of the G. O. P. He teased...
...Neurology at Columbia, came in on the case as consultant. He found Schaaf's left side paralyzed. The condition of the fighter's eyes confirmed the diagnosis of a deep-seated lesion in the right side of the brain. To relieve pressure and explore the injury Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Columbia brain surgeon, cut a 3 1/2 in. disk from the right side of Schaaf's skull. Only a small hemorrhage was visible. But there was much swelling...