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...wreckage waiting for help. One man went to find it, fell in a ravine, stood in water until morning. When men with stretchers came on them at dawn, the nine who were alive grinned with blue lips. The seven dead, including Maryland's Congressman William Devereux Byron, had to wait...
John's contribution was a snorting, hissing account of a performance of Camille in a barn in North Long Branch, New Jersey, by Ethel, 12; Lionel, 14; John, 10; and Arthur Byron, somewhat older. He recalled how Byron had panicked the audience by sweeping up to Ethel and inventing the line: "Come, entice me further, pretty one, over a libation in the conservatory." Then John saluted his sister's "gaiety, charm and splendor. . . . One has only to think of her to be invested with a God-given quality of humility...
...countrymen were just as thrilled as she. Selected to lead a reception committee up the yacht's gangplank, Mrs. Jessie Byron, daughter of Florida's Governor Frederick Preston Cone, gasped: "No. 1, dear me, I can't stand it." She faded back into second place and let Banker Percy Rivington Pyne II of New York lead the way. Between double lines of dark-spectacled police the Duke and Duchess stepped down the gangplank, rode off through the packed streets of Miami. The Duchess wore a two-piece ensemble of dull navy crepe, hip-length coat...
...Cairo, on his way to become Byron Professor of English Literature at the University of Athens, arrived fox-chasing, 62-year-old, Anglo-Irish Poet-Playwright Lord Dunsany...
...made this course on Emerson and Carlyle so popular through his lively lectures that it was found necessary to limit it to 300 students. Except for his famous lecture on Byron, he was never known to repeat a lecture, and he always left ten minutes at the end of the hour for a question period...