Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alonzo Byron) Ewing, 59, onetime treasurer of Sunshine Biscuits Inc. and acting treasurer of Kansas City's Flour Mills of America, seventh largest U.S. flour miller, moved up to the presidency of Flour Mills. Ewing was brought in last August to help Flour Mills out of a sack of troubles which resulted in a $3,000,000 loss last year and the resignations of President Henry H. Gate and Treasurer O. J. Spaulding. The company has filed a damage suit against Gate and Spaulding. The charge: using company money for speculative grain dealings on behalf of the corporation...
...Joaquin Miller, the "Byron of the Rockies," persuaded his generation that he was a poet (TIME...
...Nonetheless, it was a strangely modest yarn for Miller, who spent a lifetime stretching the truth about himself until it snapped. Famed on two continents at the turn of the century as the "Poet of the Sierras," and touted by critics of the day as the peer of Byron, Browning and Whitman, Miller has undergone a near-total eclipse since his death...
...down the gangplank and announced: "Let us go and talk with the poets." But Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce and the other "Bards of San Francisco Bay," as he dubbed them, refused to take Joaquin as seriously as he took himself. Undaunted, he printed up some calling cards, "Joaquin Miller: Byron of the Rockies," booked a $65 cabin and sailed for London...
This time he talked to dead poets, declaiming memorial odes for Burns, Scott and Byron, and even tried to sleep in Westminster Abbey to save on hotel bills. London's literati could not resist his sombrero, chaps, and jangling spurs-or his tall tales. Dante Gabriel Rossetti watched wide-eyed when Joaquin put two cigars in his mouth, lit them up, and bellowed, "That's the way we do it in the States!" Others stood spellbound as he told of lassoing buffalo as they stampeded down Beacon Street in Boston...