Word: alec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author used to be spoken of as "Alec Waugh's brother''; now it is the other way about. His publisher father, manager of London's Chapman & Hall, came in handy soon after Author Waugh left Oxford, has published most of his bright young son's books. At 24 (he is now 29) Author Waugh married another Evelyn, daughter of Lady Burghclere, was divorced two years later. He loves to travel, once gave it as his opinion that only two good travel books had ever been written: one of them The Acts of the Apostles...
...sometimes their contributions would be brief or palpably second-rate. Occasionally ? as in the case of Donald Ogden Stewart's Rebound and Noel Coward's Private Lives which had already been produced on the stage ? they were comparatively stale. But the names on the cover, names like Alec Waugh. George Jean Nathan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wallace Irwin, were impressive...
Armed with the last vestiges of "The Royal Family" -- gestures, double-breasted suit, and all--he steps through his latest offering with a debonair air of assurance, avoiding the usual movie smart Alec flippancy. He plays the part of a wealthy wastrel, who reforms because of the proximity of a charming secretary (Claudette Colbert) with a natural grace. Just here let it be said that Miss Colbert certainly seems to be worth reforming...
...diverse sociological interests as the American Foundation for the Blind and the Playground & Recreation Association of America, such diverse topics as Children and Educational Publicity. Numerous (313) were the meetings, numerous (471) the speakers. So much was there to hear that the Conference appointed a general consultant, Alexander "Uncle Alec") Johnson of Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1897 president of the Conference, 1890-93 general secretary. Puffing on his pipe "Uncle Alec" sat at a desk in the Hotel Statler and told bewildered conferees how to get the most good out of the Conference, what persons to see, what meetings...
...Author Alec Waugh went to Sandhurst (England's West Point), was captured in the War, spent months in a German prison camp. Other books: The Loom of Youth, The Lonely Unicorn, Cardcastle, Kept, Love in These Days, Nor Many Waters, Three Score...