Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle-aged Cantabrigian might remember it from his student days, Britain's great Cambridge University was a mellow place with a flavor of its own. But today, all that is historic Cambridge seems threatened. As one student put it: "The university of Byron is being overshadowed by Newton's and Darwin...
Over Sherwood's desk the group photographs were of Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, Keats, Byron, Shelly, Longfellow, Gilbert, Tennyson, Poe and others, but right in the center was an enlarged picture of Robert Emmet Sherwood that nobody could possibly overlook. Above my piano I had an equally large picture of music publisher Powers, surrounded by photographs and prints of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Sullivan, Wagner, Bizet, Liszt and others. Sherry and Powers associated only with the best. Nights when our shows were produced we would get over to the "Pudding Theatre" ahead of time and see that the folders holding the scores...
...week's end Garland Smith, who headed the insurance commission while the failures multiplied, stepped aside and turned the chair over to Lawyer J. Byron Saunders. The commission decided to recruit some 2,000 certified public accountants to check the books of every one of the 1,400 insurance companies with home offices in Texas...
...easiest win of the day. Tom Lee, in the second slot, was forced to four games before downing Charlie Poletti, 3-1. At third and fourth singles, Pete Lund and Kent Allen won easily by 3-0 scores. The Crimson's only loss came at fifth singles, where Fred Byron lost to Nick Lamont...
Second man, Tom Lee, also relies heavily on power but needs more consistency to polish up his game. In the third alot, Pete Lund counts more on the placement-touch game and needs to develop some more speed in his shots. Fourth and fifth players, Kent Allen and Fred Byron, both need to improve their racquet work and develop a faster start...