Word: byrons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly before he died in 1824, famed poet George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, bequeathed his desk to his valet. He himself had often hated this mahogany desk with its dozen secret drawers, its rickety legs which folded up so that it could be carried about like a trunk, its green-baize writing board, its little pigeonholes for ink and sand and quill. He had used it most in moments of depression; waking up in Italy after a night of debauch, he would sit before it for an hour or more, trying to trace out some verses of Don Juan...
...sits this evening, enveloped in the fragrant, pearly clouds of smoke from his Rey Odoro Perfecto--".. thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties--give me a cigar," says Byron--the Vagabond has fallen into what might be called a reminisceful mood. "Nothing", said Herodotus, "gives such weight and dignity to a book as an appendix", and he might well have paraphrased his own remark and said that nothing gives such dignity to a man as a genealogy. And so the Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into...
...RARE BEN JONSON?Byron Steel?Knopf ($3). ". . . Ben tries in vain to spear an eel with the newly-invented fork, and in exasperation flings the fork across the room. With his large hand he dips up an eel from its greasy dish and conveys it drippingly to his mouth. He smacks his lips loudly, and washes the eel down with a deep tankard of Canary. . . . "Ben sleeps heavily, and awakes the next morning in a dripping sweat, but with brave notions. . . . He always writes under these conditions. His drunken, salty sweat seems to bring him inspiration." Thus Author Steele...
...foremost writers of biography today, already known in this country for his studies of Napoleon and Wilhem HohenzoHern. In this new book, prefaced by an introduction on the writings of history, he deals with nineteen men of genius, Frederick the Great, Wilson, Bismarck, Lenin, Da Vinci, Voltaire, Rembrandt, Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare, Goethe and eight others. In this work one will find Ludwig's theory of the causes and effects of the appearance of a world genius in human society...
Married. Gustave Maurice Heck-sher, 43, real estate broker, son of August Hecksher, capitalist; to Luella Gear Chandler, 28, onetime comedienne in Queen High, musical comedy, and onetime wife of rich Byron Chandler. Mr. Hecksher was divorced last year in Paris by Louise Vanderhoff...