Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dickens used like as a conjunction; Winston Churchill says "This is me"; and authors from Shakespeare to Shaw have followed everyone with a they. Meredith wrote "Who has he come for?" and Dryden said "these kind of thoughts." Byron was forever using don't with a singular subject ("She will come round-mind if she don't"), and Lytton Strachey apparently never mastered the difference between...
...door Patricia's mother got a card with a number on it. At the registration table she gave Pat's vital statistics and signed a release. Pat was weighed; then she lay face down on an examination table, her buttocks bared. Dr. Byron P. York, prominent Houston physician who volunteered for the job, picked up a syringe bearing the same number as Pat's card and gave her the shot. Pat's whimpering was soon stilled with a lollipop...
...BYRON C. NELSON Spooner...
...Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, where a sign cautions: "Visitors are forbidden to lie on the floor." In Venice, they fed the pigeons in St. Mark's Square, drifted down the Grand Canal in gondolas, and pointed out to each other the palaces once lived in by Byron and Browning. They rolled through the hill towns of Siena, Perugia and Orvieto in air-conditioned motor coaches of the government's CIAT Travel Agency (Florence to Rome: $6.50), equipped with radios, lavatories, bars and pretty hostesses...
Major H in Minor Colors--Christopher Martin, Saxton River, Vt.; Byron B. Morton, Elizabeth, N. J.; John W. Smith, Omaha. Neb.; Eric T. Sollee, West Newton...