Word: byronical
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...primary morning Mrs. McCormick voted at her country home at Byron, then hurried to Chicago where with many a hug and kiss she was met by her good friend Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the House Speaker.? When that evening returns showed she had carried the State, including Chicago, she announced: " I feel sobered by my victory. ... I would be less than human if I were not highly pleased." From Idaho's Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and also an opponent of the World Court, came a telegram: I HAVE A VACANCY ON MY COMMITTEE...
...BYRON...
...Byron Steel...
...great store of powder blew up inside the Parthenon, scattering columns, frieze and architraves. Townsfolk used blocks of Parthenon marble for doorsteps and pigpens. A hundred years ago Lord Elgin stole great masses of the sculpture for the British Museum in London, to save them from "local vandalism." Byron berated him. The Greek Government, belatedly renascent, is now reconstructing the torn Parthenon in the semblance of its periclean perfection...
...CRIMINAL CODE-Arthur Byron in a penal tragedy...