Word: algernon
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Died. Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 94, winner of the 1937 Nobel Peace Prize for "his disinterested but enthusiastic work for the League of Nations, his work for peace among nations and in helping President Wilson in organizing the League of Nations," longtime delegate to the League of Nations, Lord Privy Seal under Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, son of the Third Marquess of Salisbury, who was thrice Queen Victoria's Prime Minister; of injuries received in a fall; at Tunbridge Wells, England. Lord Cecil did as much to create the League...
Most famous Britannica edition was the ninth, completed in 1889, with 25 volumes and 20,504 pages (v. the current Britannica's 24 volumes, 27,247 pages). Contributors included Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, Darwinian Thomas Henry Huxley, and Revolutionary Russian Prince Pëtr Alekseevich Kropotkin, who wrote his article on "Anarchism" while locked up in a French prison...
Alfred S. Arkley, Melvin L. Bristol, Algernon C. Churchill, Amyn A. Khan, John B. Powers, Hanson C. Robbins, Donald B. Stephenson (captain), William S. Talbot, John G. McGarrahan '58 (manager...
...proposed several times to Florence Nightingale, compiled such an extensive mass of pornography for his Yorkshire home that he called the place Aphrodisiopolis. Queen Victoria's favorite poet and laureate, Tennyson himself, enjoyed rude limericks-those five-line exercises in lubricity that still enjoy a large oral circulation. Algernon Swinburne had a great taste for erotica ("Shall I tell our visitor about the man of Peru?"). Whistler's saucy Finette, who introduced the cancan to England, was clearly not his mother. The Queen herself comes out of Pearl's researches unscathed (save for a regal tendency, noted...
...lively controversy. The question: What is the most perfect line of poetry in the English language? Some of the entries: "The uncertain glory of an April day" (William Shakespeare), "If Winter Comes, can Spring be far behind?" (Percy Bysshe Shelley), "Dawn skims the sea with flying feet of gold" (Algernon Swinburne), "The moan of doves in immemorial elms" (Alfred Lord Tennyson), and finally, the suggestion of a reader named W. A. Ingram, who submitted: "As in old wine lies summer half asleep." The author, revealed Reader Ingram, was something less than immortal; he was an Unidentified American friend who penned...