Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candid, sensitive, objective-is Frances Winwar's Oscar Wilde and the Yellow 'Nineties. Readers may find something reminiscent of Wildean paradox in the fact that a woman wrote it. To readers of her previous biographies (Farewell the Banner: Coleridge and the Wordsworths; The Romantic Rebels: Byron, Shelley, Keats; Poor Splendid Wings: the Rossettis) it is also a reminder of Biographer Winwar's uncommon skill in portraying the pre-Wilde period. At its best, her book does for the decadent flowering of England's Nineties what Van Wyck Brooks did for the flowering of New England...
...effrontery, and a genius for spotlighting weakness wittily, he forced most of the greatest men of his time to pay his way and to acknowledge him as equal. His great friend Titian described him as "a condottiere (gangster boss) of literature." Biographer Chubb compares his fame to that of Byron, his influence to that of Voltaire...
...moderate Republican swing in 1938, Ohio's 17th stayed with the New Deal and Representative William A. Ashbrook by about 5,000 votes. Last January, Congressman Ashbrook died. Last week his nephew, Byron Baldwin Ashbrook, Democrat, lost a special election to J. (for nothing) Harry McGregor, Republican, by 4,500 votes. The shift...
Sure enough, this turned out to be the year Jimmy Demaret's number turned up. Playing with magic precision around the green, he made Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ralph Guldahl and other champs look like Sunday-morning chumps. In quick succession he won the Oakland Open, the San Francisco Match Play tournament, the Western Open (in his own home town), and the New Orleans Open...
Last week, in the St. Petersburg Open, a crowd of 3,000 gathered around the Lakewood Country Club's 18th green to watch the tournament's final putts. Hovering over their balls were U. S. Open Champion Byron Nelson and smiling Jimmy Demaret. Nelson was away. He tapped his ball, sent it into the cup for a birdie 3, a two-under-par 69 and a 54-hole total of 212. Demaret had to sink his four-foot putt to win the tournament...