Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lakefront suite on the 14th floor of Chicago's Stevens Hotel. The Governor, sitting at the green-baize-covered table at the front of the room, read aloud his letter of refusal to the Oregon delegation. There was an awkward silence. Then up rose grey, dignified Byron C. Hanna, lawyer and former president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He said...
...Your invasion team is all present or accounted for. Walton and Capa are with me, Landry is down the road. Scherschel is somewhere on the beach and Ragsdale, I hope, is on the way back to London. Byron Thomas and Bohrod are also said to be beachcombing somewhere. Reports from the second batch of correspondents arriving yesterday are that Belden and White are still held up in England...
...this phenomenon two veterans too ill for military service are chiefly responsible. So far this year the duel between Jug McSpaden (35, sinus) and Byron Nelson (32, hemophilia) is the longest stretch of consistently great golf in almost half a century...
...name was that of Theodore Dubois, 33, private in Canada's Home Defense Army. The club's president, zealous Captain Roy Longworth Byron, assistant to Canada's director of army recruiting, had written to Dubois suggesting that he volunteer for overseas service so that there would be no "blackout" on the club's honor roll. Dubois had stood on his rights (Canada gives its draftees a choice between overseas and home-defense service) and refused...
Then someone made his personal letter to Byron public...