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Married. Mrs. Jeannette P. Colgate, recent wife of Henry A. Colgate (soap), of Manhattan; to Byron V. Dexter, poet, of Morristown, N. J.; secretly, several months ago, following an introduction at amateur theatricals. Mr. Colgate, after a conference with his wife and Poet Dexter in Paris, agreed to a divorce, will pay his onetime wife $6,000 yearly to support their three children, $6,000 yearly for herself...
...show by an analysis of the content, style or diction of three of the following passages in what ways they are characteristic of their authors or of the times in which they were written." The passages were taken from William Langland, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, Lord Byron...
...from English authors of different periods. The student was to analyze the content, style, and diction of three of the passages, telling why they were characteristic of their authors and the times in which they were written. The quotations were taken from Langland, Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, and Byron...
...unless Democrats prevent, which is unlikely, Mrs. McCormick will be elected to Congress in November. She will undoubtedly make an active, vigorous member; for while the locations of her four residences-a ranch in Wyoming; a farm at little Byron, Ill..; a camp in Virginia; an ancient manor in Georgetown, well out of Washington-bespeak her inclination to "get away from it all," still she is far more the intense realist than the intellectual recluse. She sees no sex in statesmanship. She says she knows some women who are qualified right now for Cabinet positions. Some day, she says...
...Boyd attempts to deal with accepted classical writers much as criticism deals with contemporary authors, not with the pretentious and usually spurious dignity of an academic vocabulary, but with the same sneezes and jeers that are accorded a ham novelist in the current prints. Milton, Byron and Whitman were not unacquainted with the critical raspberry in their lifetimes, and it is certain that the mere getting out of the rubber-tired hack and rolling them off to the cemetery did not rectify their deficiencies, render more agreeable their not infrequent dullness, nor sublimate their frowsy cliches into epigrams...