Word: byronical
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...wide-open situation is what Galveston wants; any change should come at the polls, not through their crusading. But their little brother and Galveston County neighbor, the Texas City Sun (circ. 4,573), which is also owned by Moody, had a different view of things. Sun Editor Clyde Byron Ragsdale, 37, thinks "a newspaper should stand for something in a community, like a church...
...eyed and languid. To be like this type, healthy and otherwise sensible young women dosed themselves with lemon juice and vinegar. The cult of pallor extended to men and crossed the ocean so that Poet Sidney Lanier was shocked by Walt Whitman's "healthy animality." Tom Moore quotes Byron before a mirror, saying: "I look pale. I should like to die of a consumption." "Why?" "Because the ladies would all say. 'Look at that poor Byron, how in teresting he looks in dying.' " Hot & Cold. Toward the end of the century, this "attitude of perverted sentimentalism toward...
...BYRON D. LEE, 33, Nazarene Church; killed in action while serving with the 25th Infantry Division on July...
...marking the location of Augusta). On two days when it rained, he played the course carrying an umbrella. His game was improving steadily as his nerves relaxed. One day he broke 90 for the first time since last summer, and Ike bragged happily that he had outdistanced Golf Pro Byron Nelson with his drives on the second and tenth holes...
Even while running a busy law firm. Strong kept an attentive eye on the arts. His diary provides an informal cultural history of 19th century New York, written from the viewpoint of an enlightened conservative. It is crammed with shrewd comments on the music of Beethoven ("the Byron of Musicians") and Mozart ("the king of Melody"), brightened by impromptu reviews of Jenny Lind's singing ("marvelously executed") and Edwin Booth's acting ("carefully studied"). Strong found time to read the classics of his day as they appeared, and appraised them with instinctive good sense...