Word: godwine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leslie Hotson, Canada-born, is renowned as a "literary detective." Through old court records he tracked down the name of the murderer* of Playwright Christopher Marlowe, and he ferreted out long-lost letters that Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to his wife after he ran away with Mary Godwin...
...charmed by the steadfastness with which, during his lifetime of 30 years, Shelley indulged his "passion for reforming the world." He traces every step of it: Shelley's elopement with Harriet Westbrook; their attempts to reform Ireland and Wales; Shelley's desertion of Harriet for Mary (Frankenstein) Godwin, and Harriet's suicide ; his inheritance of a fortune; their last, tragic days in Italy. There Shelley encouraged revolution in Spain, Naples, Greece, England; there he wrote his most important verse; there he drowned. Wrote the Tory Courier: "Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned...
...with a laugh. The President announced that at 2:45 the next day he would dedicate three schools-"three at once."Quickly Steve Early corrected him: "At a quarter to three!" When the laughter subsided and routine questions were out of the way, Washington Times-Herald's Earl Godwin leaned over the President's desk, asked sonorously: "Mr. President, do you have any reason to believe that Germany and Italy are working for your defeat in this election...
...Mary Lamb threw a fork at a domestic, missed the girl, but harpooned her feeble-minded father. Then she killed her mother with a carving knife. Such behavior was considered extraordinary even in literary circles that included Cole ridge, Godwin, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt and De Quincey. While friends hushed up the tragic affair, Mary Lamb was sent away to a private asylum (Charles had already passed six weeks in the Hoxton mad house). Coleridge wrote her letters of metaphysical commiseration, which baffled Charles and may have enraged Mary. One day after her release she was quietly talking to Coleridge. Suddenly...
Things went so well in 1938 that the Boss ordered Newshawk Godwin re-elected in 1939. But recently, in keeping with the times, "Pumpkinhead" has been mumbling about a third term. Last week, vacationing in Coral Gables, Boss Young suddenly decided against it, telephoned his hatchetman, knife-witted George Durno of International News Service...