Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen, fully recognizing the need of censorship codes for wartime news, have long been irked by the way the U.S. codes were maltreated. Last week they found they were in good company. Genial, rolypoly U.S. Censor Byron Price was irked...
...Dresselhuys smart, blonde asbestos heiress (sister of Playboy Tommy Manville), gave a sort of farewell luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton for friends she feared might be too busy for such things for the rest of 1943. She explained: "They're all war workers." Among them: diamond-studded Mrs. Byron Foy, Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church Phelps, Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith Davis Warburton. Eaten: supreme of melon in port wine, boned squab with white grapes new peas in butter, hearts of endive and beet roots and fine herbs, floating heart ice cream with figs, petit fours, demitasse. It was meatless Tuesday...
United Pressman Webb Miller, the New York Herald Tribune's Ralph Barnes and Ben Robertson, Associated Pressmen Edward Crockett and Ben Miller, the New York Times's Byron Darnton, International News Service's Jack Singer, Acme Newspictures' Carl Thusgaard, Mutual Broadcasting System's Frank Cuhel, TIME'S Melville Jacoby...
...notable occasion he was asked to investigate a home run made by his friend Chapman on what some spectators claimed was a foul ball and took leave of Byron, remarking, "Guess I'll be pretty busy looking into this homer of Chapman's." Byron affected deafness...
...four Smith children - Lawrence Byron, Sally Jane, Mary Ann and Vir ginia Lee, aged 4 to 14 - sang Happy Birthday...