Word: algernon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1963-1963
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from a manufacturer, stirred interest among New Frontiersmen at a Washington luncheon a month ago by wearing several of the buttons on her white gloves, thus avoiding pinholes in her dress. President Kennedy and members of his Cabinet asked for buttons. Suddenly, the buttons are popping out all over. Algernon D. Black, chairman of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, has ordered 4,000. The Council for United Civil Rights Leadership, which coordinates seven major civil rights groups, has adopted the button as its symbol. The council has ordered 50,000 buttons, is distributing them to member organizations...
...England. Mothers clutched their daughters. Fathers bethought themselves of horsewhips. Staid critics, resorting to apoplectic prose, apostrophized the author as the "libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs." But a youthful public in London lapped up copies of Poems and Ballads when it came out in 1866, and Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne became famous and infamous almost overnight...
...only certifiably sinful relationship-with Music Hall Actress Adah Isaacs Menken-ended after six weeks. "I can't make Algernon understand," she ruefully explained, "that biting's no use." Eventually, he retired to the country for his health under the care of a proper Victorian solicitor-scholar named Theodore Watts-Dunton. And the world, learning that his poetic passions had been mainly pastiche, soon decided his passionate poetry was merely overblown...