Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Were this the sum total of Byron's character, it would present no puzzle: any zoo attendant could tumble to it. In fact the monster was a mere segment of it. Women rarely saw the better side of Byron, but to his men friends, the devilish Byron seemed an absurd joke, a mere poetic fantasy. They sat at his feet, bowed to his charm, reveled in the humor and radiance he shed. Their descriptions of him are mostly levelheaded and carry a ring of conviction. Wrote Sir Walter Scott: "I found Lord Byron in the highest degree courteous...
...colored in one shade or another. Answering a question in Parliament recently, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs Henry Hopkinson declared: "In a world in which restrictions on personal movement and immigration have increased, we still take pride in the fact that a man can say civis Britannicus sum whatever his color may be, and we take pride in the fact that he wants and can come to the mother country . . . That is not something we wish to tamper with lightly." That said, Hopkinson admitted the government is indeed considering some form of limitation...
...some of the benefits. In 1931 he was given his first pair of shoes. By 1935 he was fatter and sleeker, and his eyes had grown large and almost soulful. In 1938 he felt the pinch of rising costs: he lost his tail, thereby saving the studio a sizable sum of money on each cartoon. Next year, after Snow White, he got the tail back, only to lose it again during Walt's dark years in the '40s. But in 1952 Walt made up for everything by giving Mickey eyebrows...
...SECRET DIARY OF HAROLD ICKES, VOLS. II AND III, could hardly be described as good reading, but future historians will have to consult them for inside descriptions of New Deal power plays, inner-circle animosities, and Honest Harold's cantankerous sum-up of liberal types...
Eaton announced that he would buy the mill from Richmond for an undisclosed sum and keep it operating right where it is. Cy Eaton, who had put in a bid for Follansbee a month before, and failed, won the mill this time because Republic Steel agreed to call off its deal with Richmond. No news could have pleased Follansbee more. Said the steel company's general foreman, Boyd McCall: "This is the best Christmas present the people of Follansbee could get. And Mr. Eaton is the Santa Claus...