Word: byronism
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...Lord Byron's hollow snake's-head ring, for carrying poison...
...Professionals Harry Vardon & Ted Ray, the U. S. Open Golf Championship ended in a three-way tie. Identical scores of 284, after three days of nerve-racking play over the sun-baked Spring Mill course of the Philadelphia Country Club, were hung up by Craig Wood, Denny Shute and Byron Nelson...
...barbers son put himself with peasant caution and intelligence through years of discipline in the Royal Academy School, under teachers of perspective and architectural drawing, on constant sketching trips through half the terrains and atmospheres of Europe, as an illustrator for, among other things, the poems of Scott and Byron. When a building in Oxford Street burned down, he was up early to sketch the smoking ruins; when Nelson's flagship, the Victory, returned from the Battle of Trafalgar, he went down to Sheerness to go aboard and make sketches...
...Anderson makes the stark tonality of the song ring long after the record is over. Indeed, one can find much to compare in the after effect of the Anderson and the Holiday records. They are sincere versions of different types of music, overshadowed by the tragedy evident in each. Byron said, "To be an artist, one must have lived through the griefs of life." Jimmy Rushing, Count Basie's blues singer, puts it, "To sing the blues, man, you've gotta have the blues." Same thought--in different words,--but still significant...
...Phoenix Open, 27-year-old Byron Nelson posted a 36-hole total of 130 (65-65), lowest in the history of U. S. professional play...