Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good poets but very unlovely men, and Byron was the most unmanageable of the lot. Despite his years at Harrow and at Cambridge, Byron never quite learned what was cricket and what was not. If many of his acts had been committed by anyone other than a poet, that person would long ago have found himself in the dock of the historians' Old Bailey, and the unanimous verdict of those moralists would have condemned him to everlasting infamy as a cad. Even as it is, his biography is not a pretty tale, but it has the sort of satanic interest...
...heard of the Malahide papers. Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia's famed dealer, had cabled a bid of $250,000 for them. Lord Talbot had appeared at the U. S. Consulate in Dublin carrying the cable like a soiled handkerchief, had sniffed: "Who is this person? Please ask him not to correspond with me. We have not been introduced...
Collector Isham was a onetime lieutenant colonel on Sir Douglas Haig's staff, Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He sent no cables but appeared at Malahide Castle in person, and over the teacups the deal was done. Isham had promised Lord Talbot not to persuade the family to sell anything, and he stuck to his word. But when Lady Talbot asked him if one of the papers (a letter from Goldsmith) had any value-"What sort of thing? A hundred pounds sort of thing?" -and he replied, 'I think ten times that more like...
...memories of her aviator husband, recently killed in a crash. Thanks to her French connections she meets aristocratic, smoothly handsome André de Verviers, and because his physical attraction is extreme, takes him as a lover-antidote. At the time her story opens she has discovered that as a person she dislikes him intensely but cannot get rid of him. What Isabelle wants is to marry Laurence, an impeccable Virginia gentleman who has gone to Paris to ask her. Life with him, she is sure, would be peaceful, quiet and no trouble. Though she hates violence, she plans and carries...
...train of gunpowder facts that led from 1909 to the explosion five years later. Laymen found it hard going, but historians hailed it as important, called it the best study of war origins since Sidney Fay's The Origins of the World War. Was there any one person or thing responsible for the War's outbreak? If there was, says Author Wolff, its name was Prestige. But he seeks no simplified cause, finds no men of straw. Whatever may have been the basic cause, the accessories before the fact were incapacity, irresponsibility. As an eyewitness to Germany...