Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Activity. In Los Angeles, Municipal Judge Byron J. Walters, sentencing John Amodeo to a year in jail for mixing horsemeat into ground beef, declared: "Hamburgers are an American institution...
...BYRON A. BONNHEIM Chicago...
Grunts & Groans. The Associated Press's Byron Rollins suggested that Ross let the photographers develop their pictures and submit them for approval. Said Ross, grimly: "These pictures will not be published." Cried International News Photos' Al Muto: "All we ever get from you is a lot of grunts and groans." Grabbing back his plates, he deliberately exposed them. Rollins and Acme's Milton Freier did the same. The movie men, who did not want to waste footage taken before the flight, let Charlie Ross ship their films to Washington to be developed by the Navy...
...Byron...
...world in general, just a good boy trying to conform. I thought John Dos Passos was a terrible yellow belly for griping about the war." But at the time, he thought he had the world by the tail. He went to Europe in 1921 ("I was Lord Byron on a triumphal tour. God, it was wonderful!"), and in Rome became engaged to Christina Sedgwick, niece of Atlantic Monthly Editor Ellery Sedgwick. By Marquand's account, his marriage brought him "face to face with the capitalist system...