Word: byronic
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...bust (see p. 74); but generally the bluebloods had done what they could in the face of war-like fiction's Englishmen dressing for dinner in the jungle. Among the attendant owners of rare baubles, rare pelts, rare beauty or simply rare old blood (see cuts): Mrs. Byron Foy (sapphires and diamonds); Mrs. Walter Moving (ermine); Emily Roosevelt (fifth cousin of the President) ; Mrs. John Jacob Astor (of the onetime fur-trapping Astors, pictured furless); Valerie Moore (silver fox); Mrs. Whitney Bourne (kith to the Boston Whitneys); Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (kin to one from New York); Mrs. George...
Once, after a hard fight for a sensible, democratic censorship, newsmen had been reassured by the appointment of Byron Price as head of the Office of Censorship. When able Elmer Davis took over as head of OWI last summer, with executive powers straight from the President, newsmen believed that the military news jam would be dynamited. Yet within the last weeks have come some of the war's worst examples of inept, demoralizing suppression of war news...
...three actors and actresses transform the drama into the most powerful production to hit Boston in many a season. Byron McGrath's portrayal of the vitriolic Jack Manningham will send chills jumping from vertebra to vertebra for three solid hours. His tortured, neurotic wife, as played by Lynn Phillips, is a study in desperate hatred. Relief from all this psychopathic tension is contributed by Ernest Cossart in the role of a detective, Sergeant Rough. Cossart has been appearing in movies for several years, but has always been buried in minor parts as a butler or valet. In "Angel Street...
Among the scrub eucalyptus trees in a trim little Australian-American military cemetery outside Port Moresby, the New York Times's Byron Darnton was buried last week with full military honors. The Army said only that he was killed in an accident. He was 44 years old and the tenth U.S. correspondent to fall in line of duty in World...
...time was last January; the scene, Censor Byron Price's office. The nation's press had just received a very complete and baffling set of ground rules for wartime censorship, but despite this everyone was optimistic and cooperative. A far cry from that was the scene in Washington a fortnight ago, as long-suffering correspondents threatened at last to blow the lid over the ridiculous hush-hush handling of President Roosevelt's inspection tour...