Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many golf tournaments an unknown from nowhere steals the show. In last week's performance, however, the headliners hogged the spotlight from beginning to end. When the field of 120 (including Shute) narrowed down to two, the survivors of the six-day elimination matches were Byron Nelson and Henry Picard, the two top-ranking pros in the U. S. (on the basis of their scores in the circuit of P.G.A. tournaments this year...
...That was yellow-haired Joaquin Miller (christened Cincinnatus Hiner Miller), a "delicate, effeminate, useless" romantic who had a daughter by an Indian woman, became a judge ("with one lawbook and two six-shooters," said oldtimers), married a romantic Oregon girl-poet named Minnie Myrtle whom he divorced because "Lord Byron separated from his wife, and some of my friends think I am a second Lord Byron." From San Francisco editors Poet Miller got rejection slips until his famous junket to England. Armed with a laurel wreath for Byron's grave, the manuscript of Songs of the Sierras, a pair...
...Lord Byron's hollow snake's-head ring, for carrying poison...
...Professionals Harry Vardon & Ted Ray, the U. S. Open Golf Championship ended in a three-way tie. Identical scores of 284, after three days of nerve-racking play over the sun-baked Spring Mill course of the Philadelphia Country Club, were hung up by Craig Wood, Denny Shute and Byron Nelson...
...barbers son put himself with peasant caution and intelligence through years of discipline in the Royal Academy School, under teachers of perspective and architectural drawing, on constant sketching trips through half the terrains and atmospheres of Europe, as an illustrator for, among other things, the poems of Scott and Byron. When a building in Oxford Street burned down, he was up early to sketch the smoking ruins; when Nelson's flagship, the Victory, returned from the Battle of Trafalgar, he went down to Sheerness to go aboard and make sketches...