Word: byronical
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...your excellent article on Hesketh Pearson's biography of George Bernard Shaw [TIME, Oct. 5] you quote H. G. Wells as having called Shaw "an intellectual eunuch." Wells has plagiarized the phrase from Byron, who in his satirical dedication of Don Juan said of Milton...
Though the play recaptures Anderson's old simple virtues, it reveals some of his ingrained faults. He has resisted for the nonce his usual high-flown poetizing, or at any rate put it to half-comic use by letting an absurd Southern private spout Byron, Keats, Arnold, T. S. Eliot. But Anderson is sometimes wordy even in prose. Now and then he overworks his pathos. He throws in a jarring dream sequence. "His taste sometimes falters. Fortunately his theme, like a horse more astute than its rider, saves him from ever getting too far off the road...
Some of the businessmen who will attend: Walter S. Montgomery, president of Spartan Mills, Spartansburg, S.C. (cotton goods); Meyer Kestnbaum, executive vice president and treasurer of Hart Schaffner & Marx; Noble A. Cathcart, assistant to the president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.; Roy E. Larsen, president of Time Inc.; Byron Gray, president of International Shoe Co.; H. Leslie Atlass, vice president of Columbia Broadcasting System; Joseph Hazen, vice president of Warner Bros. Also represented is labor by A.F. of L.'s Arnold Zander, C.I.O.'s Richard Deveraux...
...admiral at 49. He once commanded the Lexington, but his real love is submarines. Vice Admiral Frederick Joseph Home, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, who became a naval air observer at 46. He once commanded the carrier Saratoga, later the Fleet's aircraft battle force. Rear Admiral Arthur Byron Cook, onetime BuAer chief, now in charge of aircraft operating with the Atlantic Fleet, who learned to fly at 54 Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., the Navy's senior admiral at sea, COMCARPAC (Commander of Carriers in the Pacific) until Admiral Towers' new appointment...
Assuming that 5,000,000 soldiers each spend $300 a year in the P-X-or 10,000,000 soldiers each spend $150-the Exchange Service will gross $1,500,000,000. Wherever the figure stops, General Byron (salary $8,000 annually) along with his top men and the bosses of its stores (all officers trained for the job, most of whom have had retail sales experience) will face a historic job of merchandising...