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...After reading your article on Byron Raymond White [April 6], I can see that President Kennedy has dismissed political temptations in order to make a wise choice...
...Byron White has many fine qualities as a lawyer, but there are other older, more experienced lawyers who should have been first considered for the high office of a Supreme Court Justice. Mr. White was an excellent student and athlete and may do well in the new job. We will just have to wait and see if Kennedy's choice was a wise...
NAMED at 44 as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Byron Raymond ("Whizzer") White has a past that would make Frank Merriwell look like a drudge. It was with an eye to that record that President Kennedy said, in announcing White's appointment: "He has excelled in everything he has attempted -and I know that he will excel on the highest court in the land." White grew up in Wellington, a farm supply center of 550 people in northern Colorado. His father, a lumberman, was town mayor-and a devoted Republican. Byron was valedictorian of his five...
...politics when, in 1960, Jack Kennedy asked his help in rounding up Colorado delegates at the Democratic convention. After the convention, Bobby Kennedy asked White to head the national Citizens for Kennedy group and was impressed by White's softspoken yet persuasive wooing of the voters. "They see Byron and they trust him," said Bobby. After the election White seemed surprised at being named Deputy Attorney General. "I didn't get into the campaign with the idea of getting a job," he said. But he happily took the position. As Bobby Kennedy's top aide, he directed...
...blood of the Saracens, Spaniards, Normans, Byzantines and Greeks. The East appears in her slanting eyes. Her dark brown hair is a bazaar of rare silk. Her legs talk. In her impish, ribald Neapolitan laughter, she epitomizes the Capriccio Italien that Tchaikovsky must have had in mind. Lord Byron, in her honor, probably sits up in his grave about once a week and rededicates his homage to "Italia! oh, Italia! thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty." Vogue Magazine once fell to its skinny knees and abjectly admitted: "After Loren, bones are boring...