Word: byronical
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Sirs: If we give Britain the sort of all out aid we sent to Greece, she is going to be all in before receiving it. ... WINNIE BYRON Montezuma, Colo...
...Reader Byron's crack is rather unfair. The U.S. had no time to send any substantial aid to Greece...
...York Times's Byron Darnton last week had an interesting story to tell. Mr. Darnton has been visiting Fort Meade, in Maryland, where the Army has nearly completed a cantonment for 30,000 soldiers. What Mr. Darnton found there he called a "fair example" of how organized labor has profited by the defense program...
...babel of dissatisfied litigants. In five minutes on any street one may see an Armenian fighting with a Hindu; an Abyssinian woman with her simian face smeared with rancid butter to keep vermin away; an old bishop who knew the strange, sad, lame poet-adventurer Rimbaud, France's Byron, when he lived in Harar; a beautiful, brown-skinned, high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood on her head as if it were a tiara ; a big black with a lion cub on a leash; an Abyssinian policeman who looks ferocious with leaves stuffed in his nostrils...
...golfing duffer thinks of hazards in terms of hooks, slices, traps, bunkers, putts that won't drop. These things are nothing much in the life of P. G. A. Champion Byron Nelson. He is used to them, takes them as they come. What gets him down is good weather. Says he: "Give me an overcast day, and I'll give you a low golf score. Comes sunshine and the score goes up. Why? Because your eyes get tired and you lose your ability to judge distance...