Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times's Byron Darnton last week had an interesting story to tell. Mr. Darnton has been visiting Fort Meade, in Maryland, where the Army has nearly completed a cantonment for 30,000 soldiers. What Mr. Darnton found there he called a "fair example" of how organized labor has profited by the defense program...
...babel of dissatisfied litigants. In five minutes on any street one may see an Armenian fighting with a Hindu; an Abyssinian woman with her simian face smeared with rancid butter to keep vermin away; an old bishop who knew the strange, sad, lame poet-adventurer Rimbaud, France's Byron, when he lived in Harar; a beautiful, brown-skinned, high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood on her head as if it were a tiara ; a big black with a lion cub on a leash; an Abyssinian policeman who looks ferocious with leaves stuffed in his nostrils...
...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...
...golfing duffer thinks of hazards in terms of hooks, slices, traps, bunkers, putts that won't drop. These things are nothing much in the life of P. G. A. Champion Byron Nelson. He is used to them, takes them as they come. What gets him down is good weather. Says he: "Give me an overcast day, and I'll give you a low golf score. Comes sunshine and the score goes up. Why? Because your eyes get tired and you lose your ability to judge distance...
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...