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...carbon cycle, used electricity to isolate sodium and potassium and saved countless lives by inventing a safety lamp for coal miners. He also studied the health benefits of nitrous oxide - laughing gas. Oh, to be a fly on the wall while Davy huffed 18th century whippits with Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, both close friends. After ingesting 100 (!) quarts (95 liters) of nitrous using a homemade gas chamber, Davy wrote...
...CATARACT OF LODORE by Robert Southey, illustrated by David Catrow (Henry Holt; $15.95). The author, who lived from 1774 to 1843, is one of England's forgotten poet laureates. Yet Southey's story The Three Bears has endured for more than 100 years. Now another of his children's tales is resurrected, thanks to David Catrow's lively paintings. The rhythms and sights of a waterfall should lull and delight young readers well into the next century...
...Robert Southey, The Battle of Blenheim...
...years as American Stock Exchange president, Ralph Southey Saul was the most effective and innovative leader of any major exchange. He pioneered in helping member firms over problems caused by high volume, and he oversaw the automation of exchange-floor functions. When President Nixon recently went searching for a new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the position was offered to Saul. He turned it down. Last week Saul startled just about everyone by taking another job. He will switch from the Amex presidency to the vice chairmanship of the First Boston Corp...
...Since the judges for the American Heritage's dictionary have decreed the death penalty for all who use like as a conjunction [Aug. 22], a hangman's noose would have been the appropriate end for Elyot, Shakespeare, Smollett, Southey, Newman, Washington Irving, Darwin and William Morris (of Morris chair fame, not the dictionary's editor). Edmund Spenser should perhaps have been flogged for anticipating the TVese use of host as a transitive verb. Since advise in the sense of "notify" is business and Army English, Willa Gather and Sir Richard Steele must have been members...