Word: byrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harrow has six including Lord Peel, Lord Palmerston and .Stanley Baldwin), Lord Roberts, Viscount Byng, Marquis Curzon, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Major General Corn wall is, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Novelist Henry Fielding, Poets Phineas and Giles Fletcher, Edmund Waller, Thomas Gray, Percy Bysshe Shelley (but George Gordon Lord Byron was a Harrovian...
...content with a mere abracadabresque chanting of holy names, Durant follows up his list of required reading with many a hortatory ejaculation. "Absorb every word of Taine's chapter on Byron. . . . Do not miss the odes of Keats. . . . Go then, to William James. . . ." Nothing if not an enthusiast, he exclaims of John Cowper Powys: "Here is the finest American prose since Santayana...
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...
...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...