Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward Trelawny knew Shelley some six months, Byron two years, but he wrote (30 years later) the most colorful firsthand report of their strange doings-Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. Last fortnight Margaret Armstrong (Fanny Kemble) reported the even stranger doings of Edward Trelawny, showed him to have been more Byronic than Byron...
Collections of Byron's works feature the exhibits now on display in Widener. In the Memorial Rooms are a selection of his books and manuscripts while in the Theatre Room is a history of the attempts to dramatize the life of Byren...
Charges of leftish sabotage are made by André Maurois (Tragedy in France), famed author of Ariel and Byron. Like Hambro, Maurois insists that the "actual traitors . . . were not at all numerous. . . ." He gives four reasons for the debacle: 1) stupid industrial mobilization which permitted irreplaceable skilled workers to be drafted, so that Renault (tanks and trucks) was reduced from 30,000 workers to some 7,000; 2) engineers and financiers thought World War II was World War I, built factories which could not turn out essential weapons until 1941 or '42; 3) strategy was planned...
...Other great-brain weights: Turgenev, 4.435 Ib.; Byron, 3.98 Ib.; Kant, 3.5 Ib.; Schiller, 3.48 Ib.; Dante, 3.14 Ib.; Anatole France, 2.24 Ib. Average...
...Also signed up with the Lions this year: Byron ("Whizzer") White, returning to football after a year at Yale. His salary will be considerably less than the $15,000 he got for playing eleven professional games with the Pittsburgh Pirates two years ago, before going to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar...