Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardling "B" squash team won its fourth match of the Metropolitan League season against only one defeat yesterday at the Union Boat Club, 4 to 1. At first and fifth singles Charlie Hamm and Fred Byron won in three straight games, but the middle singles did not follow the same pattern, as Tom Lee won 3 to 1, Pete Lund won 3 to 2, and Kent Allen bowed 3 to 2 in the day's closest match...
Whatever the cause, says her biographer, she was "a woman of mystery." According to the rumor of the times, she may have been a daughter of Lord Byron (actually, she was not; he was somewhere else at the time) or a changeling-the adopted daughter of gypsies (her favorite fantasy, which psychologists will recognize). Was Francisco Montes, the famous bullfighter, her father? (He denied it.) Was she born in Turkey? India? Her real name was Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, and she came from Limerick. At all events, she liked to wear black, was on the stage, had tiny feet...
Freshman "B": Charles Hamm (H) d. Mugaseth (HC), 15-12, 15-11, 15-10; Peter Lund (H) d. Roitman (HC), 14-18, 18-15, 15-10, 15-13; Shapiro (HC) d. Thomas Lee (H), 15-11, 11-15, 14-16, 15-8, 15-10; Fred Byron (H) d. Grant (HC), 15-12, 11-15, 15-13, 15-9l Sonnabend (HC) d. Kent Allen...
...find a counterbalance, Delacroix went back to Rubens' tumultuous, baroque style. A cold, diffident man in private life, he drew his inspiration from music, or from the grand gestures of English Actor Edmund Kean's playing of Shakespearean tragedies or the literary works (Goethe, Sir Walter Scott, Byron and Tas-so), noting in his journal, "Remember eternally certain passages from Byron to inflame your imagination...
Instead of going to a university, he found himself before he was 20 producing a newspaper in Lahore. Says Carrington: "There had been nothing like his sudden rise to fame and fortune since Byron awoke one morning to find that the publication of Childe Harold had made him famous . . . 1890 saw the publication . . . of more than 80 short stories from his pen, many ballads and . . . a novel [The Light That Failed].'' Soon he was advising viceroys and was so famous that when he fell ill in New York (he married an American), crowds knelt in Seventh Avenue...