Word: byronism
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...during a thunderstorm in Egremont, Mass. She divorced her first husband, one Andrew Ulback, secretly last fortnight in Mexico. Divorced. Ethel Catherwood McLaren, Canadian gymnast, "most beautiful woman athlete of the 1928 Olympic Games"; from James Gillan McLaren of Toronto; in Reno. Grounds: nonsupport. She intends to marry one Byron Mitchell, San Francisco gymnasium instructor. Judgment Awarded. To Myrtle St. Pierre: $5,000 in her $200,000 breach of promise suit against David Hutton, husband of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; in Los Angeles. Hearing the verdict, Sister McPherson toppled and cracked her pate...
Last week the following were news: Hubert Templeton Parson resigned as president of F. W, Woolworth Co. and was succeeded by Byron DeWitt Miller, 55, vice president & treasurer. Mr. Parson will be 60 (Woolworth retirement age, suddenly enforced) next September. He also gave illness (arthritis) as a reason for his resignation. There have been rumors of a rift in the Woolworth management for some time. Last year Mr. Parson made many an optimistic statement regarding the company at the time a pool was trying to push the stock. The new ruler of 2,430 stores in five countries started...
Imitation of Byron...
...entry the well laid schemes of apportionment went to pieces, and any editor might well wonder what to do with the remainder of a magazine which had decided to risk publication of Mr. Agee's opus. The poem is frankly an imitation--I will not say a copy--of Byron's "Don Juan", using the same verse form and employing the same tricks and devices...
...Byron had never written I should be tempted to say to Mr. Agee what Emerson, in an unguarded moment of enthusiasm, said to Whitman. Since, however, Byron has written, I can only say that Mr. Agee has deliberately invited comparison, and that he does not come off at all badly from the ordeal. And in case I haven't made my point clear, I hasten to add that this is intended to be very high praise. Certain it is, the poem blows through the pages of "The Advocate" with so authentic and Rabelaisian a gusto as nearly crinkles its decorous...