Word: byronical
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...Europe-to make cars of General Motors, Chrysler and others "easier riding"; 3) streamlining in a big way-Walter Chrysler's bid to claim the distinction that he made the buggy a bugaboo. A few years ago a 22-year-old graduate of the University of Texas named Byron Cecil Foy began selling Fords in Dallas. Norval A. Hawkins, Ford's salesmanager, was staging a nation-wide sales contest and to everyone's surprise the young Texan won it. Soon he was working directly for Ford. Next he became head of Reo's sales in California...
...starting line-up for Harvard will be: l.g., Henry M. Adlis '37; r.g., Jack L. Mason '37; c., Earnest A. Gray, Jr. '37; l.f., Byron W. Meser, Jr. '37; and r.f., Leavitt S. White...
...Count Byron Khun de Prorok, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, who has led nine expeditions into Africa, invites Harvard students to accompany him on his next expedition...
...cheap in commercial civilization, is contrasted with the pitiless realities of sea and storm. Though he has a resounding reputation as a realist (his "big novel," The Village, is written in naturalistic, Chekhovian style) Author Bunin was once numbered among the symbolists, has also written and translated verse-notably Byron's "Manfred" and "Cain" and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Hiawatha...
...Eccolo, e matto, poveretto," the poor fellow is gone mad, exclaimed the Abbot at the monastery at Samos, while Byron raged with fever, allowing no one in his cell, breaking up the last shred of furnishing, beating Bruno, his unfledged physician, over the head. Bruno tore his hair, gnashed his teeth, wept because he had no power to use his poor skill on his master; the monks trembled and prayed. News of action came. Byron recovered overnight, set forth with miraculous energy; "I believed myself on a fool's errand from the first," he wrote, but he endured everything...