Word: byronism
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Elected. William Harridge of Chicago, secretary of the American (Baseball) League; onetime private secretary to the late Byron Bancroft ("Ban") Johnson, to be American League president, succeeding the late Ernest Sargent Barnard (TIME, April 6); in Cleveland, Ohio...
...willingly admits that the efforts of Professors Harper and Legouis in exposing Wordsworth's relations with Annette make it necessary for a new "explanation." Keenly aware of the sensational tendencies of his own century, Professor Herford makes it quite clear, however, that this discovery does not make a Casanova-Byron of the respectable recluse of Rydal. He sums up the whole incident from the very solid point of view of common sense...
...Johnson until a year before it was dissolved, sponsor in 1905 of the first official World Series; after long illness; in Cincinnati. He was the third of baseball's great pioneers to die within a month, following President Ernest Sargent Barnard of the American League and onetime President Byron Bancroft ("Ban") Johnson of the American League (TIME, April...
...When it was announced that I was writing the life of Carl Laemmle," says John Drinkwater, "a number of anxious critics asked, Why? . . . Wasn't that a very odd thing for the biographer of Lincoln, Lee, Byron, and the rest, to do?'' If you postpone asking this question yourself until after reading this Horatio-Algeresque biography, you may still feel like asking it?unless you think the answer is obvious. From Mr. Laemmle's point of view, of course, there was nothing "odd" about it. People hire artists to paint their portraits, don't they...
Died. Ernest Sargent Barnard, 56, president since 1927 of the American League of professional baseball clubs (he succeeded Byron Bancroft ["Ban"] Johnson), onetime president of the Cleveland Indians; of heart disease; in Rochester, Minn...