Word: byronic
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...time of World War II, Crosby and his perennial sidekick Bob Hope were barnstorming the country on golf exhibitions with professionals such as Byron Nelson and Harold McSpaden. "Lord" Byron, the leading money-winner of 1945, and "Childe" Harold were then known as "The Gold Dust Twins." Crosby teamed up with woman professional and former Olympian Mildred "Babe" Didrickson in a series of War Bond exhibitions on the Coast. By the end of the war, over $600 million worth of War Bonds had been sold through golf tournaments and exhibitions...
Last week, in a 7 to 2 decision, the Supreme Court sidestepped the constitutional problems in the case, but it dealt what dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall called "a fatal blow" to most of the means of enforcing the Civil Rights Act in religious cases. The majority decision, written by Byron White, said that many employees had "strong but perhaps nonreligious reasons for not working on weekends," and that the law cannot be construed to "require an employer to discriminate against some employees in order to enable others to observe their Sabbath." White said there was no objection to employers...
...Lord Byron...
...their swallow-tailed coats and frilly shirts, their long summer gowns and free-flowing hairdos, they look like characters from a bacchanal in Byron's own early 19th century London. They rival one another not only in elegance and extravagance but in sheer stamina, for the evening is likely to begin with dinner at a chic restaurant and end with a stylish breakfast at dawn. The revelers are not the bored and idle rich of the land, although tabs run high. The partygoers are high school students who are reviving-and revising-that grand and time-honored institution...
...Justice Byron White, who wrote a minority opinion, challenged the contention that state laws and common law offer children adequate protection against abuse. Although beaten students can often file civil suits against school officials in cases of excessive punishment -and press criminal charges if malice is involved-such suits are rare, and in any case the punishment cannot be undone...