Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House lawn Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee Henry Wallace and Attorney General Robert Jackson put on an exhibition of boomerang throwing for cameramen (see cut). Before News-photographer Byron Rollins, who was snapping them, could get out of the way, one of the boomerangs came back, knocked him down, cut a deep gash in his scalp...
Such a team - Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Sam Snead, Ralph Guldahl, Horton Smith, Paul Runyan, Dick Metz, Jim my Hines, Harold McSpaden, Vic Ghezzi! "From the boys they overlooked I could pick ten that would beat the pants off that team," sneered Sarazen - with a special glare at his old rival, Walter Hagen, chosen captain for the seventh time...
First concocted as a poem by Byron, Mazeppa's most famous adaptation for the stage described the life and hard times of the crown prince of Tartary. As a page boy in the castle of a Polish King, Mazeppa inspires a gaudy first-act curtain by shooting the fiance of the King's only daughter. Before the hoopla has subsided, Mazeppa, traditionally played by a curve-some female, has been tied to a "fiery Tartarian steed." headed precipitously away from the lone Polish prairie. Enacted in Suffern by the papier-mache horse used by the Lunts in their...
...individual, a U. S. phenomenon, a U. S. symbol. The nice son of a nice U. S. environment, he never entirely either out grew or betrayed it. He was essentially, if mildly, an artist and a rebel, he achieved neither art nor rebellion. He was an innocent sort of Byron-of-his-time...
...tournament were: happy-go-lucky Jimmy Demaret (winner of half the tournaments on the winter circuit), up-&-coming little Ben Hogan (who finished in the money in 16 tournaments this year), long-swatting Sam Snead, a mechanically perfect golfer, and onetime Open Champions Ralph Guldahl (1937-38) and Byron Nelson (1939)-none of them over 29 years...