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...root of Peter Quennell's analysis is that Byron was bisexual, a theory not developed in Frances Winwar's less minute study. Apparently with careful design, Byron began spreading stories about himself when his fortunes were highest. He even confided in scatter-brained Lady Caroline, after she had become his virulent enemy. Prevented from publicly proclaiming his love for his sister, he married, choosing as his wife a prim, exact intellectual whom he did not love and whose highbrow affectations amused him and his friends. He took his bride to his sister's home, tormenting her with...
Just on the stroke of midnight in an underground barbershop in Times Square, Martin Krompier, Flegenheimer's right-hand man, found himself staring at a figure with a drawn gun. The gunman blew a hole in the ceiling to warn other occupants of the shop to scatter. Then he plugged Krompier four times...
...sense of humor will secretly be tickled by the spectacle of these two cooped up together on shipboard; 2) the President would rather take them along with him than leave them in Washington to raise Ned during his absence; 3) just as an Oriental potentate uses his viziers to scatter cumshaw to the multitude, the President could use his two prime Relievers to make his tour a happy one by promising Federal gold at strategic points en route...
...year-old girl, got up in the House to voice the fears & thoughts of parents: "I am calling upon the Public Health Service to call off the jamboree. I, for one, can't sit here silently and see thousands of boys come here and maybe scatter this dread disease all over the world...
...Manchuria the Japanese regularly load trains with seeds, cinemas, drygoods, hardware and propagandists, dispatch them to the back districts for the edification of incredulous Chinese. In the U. S. railroad peddling has been largely confined to private cars in which crack executives tour the land, scatter cheer to underlings and big customers. Last autumn Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank led a long goodwill mission around the borders of the U. S. in a private car with his nephew Nelson Rockefeller as Exhibit A (TIME, Dec. 24). But not until last fortnight when Chicago's Marshall Field...