Word: byronical
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Dactylic Don Juan. To Matthew Arnold's dictum that Shelley was "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," Author Smith & Others snort an indignant Jig-gerypoo! Shelley, they insist, was a dactylic Don Juan, a Byron of the Bohemian underbrush. "The difficulty with the Shelley worshippers is that they cannot bring themselves to realize or to admit that...
...Byron Nelson, 33, golf's pro of pros, winner of 17 tourneys and $53,200 during the past year, was momentarily stymied in Spokane. Checking in for the Esmeralda Open (which he later won, making it 18 wins and $55,200), he asked for his hotel reservation and was told by the clerk: "I'm afraid not. All our rooms are being reserved for the golfers...
...Marine Howard ("Red") Maley helped get Southern Methodist's oldtime aerial circus going again with a 51-0 whitewashing of outclassed Backland A.A.F. The other favorite in the Southwest, Texas, had a threatening mixture of big & little stars - 137-lb. Breakaway-Back Byron Gil-lory and mountainous Tackles (combined weight 525 Ibs.) Harland Wetz and Jim Plyler...
Quite unexpectedly, the Council rejected the proposed Board, insinuating that political intrigue had played a part in the rapid elevation of Byron Dobell, second-in-command-on the new Board. Spec editors, resenting the Council's implication and interference, countered that the elevation was made on grounds of "ability, initiative, service, originality, and sincerity...
...Despite a 102° fever, he fired a 68 to tie for the first-round lead in the $10.000 Dallas Open. But next day, woozy from sulfa, he slumped to 74. After that he could not catch Sam Snead (lately recovered from a broken arm), Jug Mc-Spaden or Byron Nelson. Hogan finished fourth with a 3-under-par. In the longer run he was a good bet to succeed wartime golf's king of the links, fast-greying Byron Nelson, now 18 Ibs. underweight after the nerve-wearing grind of winning 16 tournaments within a year...