Word: alee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...borderline of sanity, the worth of democracy, Good & Evil. Walpole devotees consider him a good if not a great novelist, a battler on the side of the angels; caustic critics call him pompous and sentimental. Walpole is supposed to be represented in Somerset Maugham's recent Cakes and Ale by "Alroy Kear." snobbish, successful but second-rate English man of letters...
Last October appeared William Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale (TIME, Oct. 6). Sharp-eyed critics soon announced the story was founded on less-known, less respectable episodes of Thomas Hardy's life. Hardyolators were indignant. Their indignation may be mollified by "A. Riposte's" riposte. A much more savage, more personal attack on Maugham than Maugham ever made on Hardy, the book would have been instantly disqualified by the late great Marquess of Queensberry, frowner on fouls...
...Author. Publishers Farrar & Rinehart stoutly withhold the real name of "A. Riposte," admit the author may reveal him (or her) self later. Whoever the author may be, he (or she) is obviously a good friend to Novelist Hugh Seymour Walpole (pilloried in Cakes and Ale as "Alroy Kear"), obviously has been at pains to ferret out Maugham's career, obviously has a grudge against Maugham. Mindful of possible libel action. "Riposte" steers clear of any reference to Maugham's effeminate men friends (TIME, Oct. 6). Says Publisher John Farrar: "English publishers are cabling violently. ... I feel as though...
...thanks from that Learned Body. He was exhibited, particularly the marks of puberty, at market towns and fairs. At the age of three, we are told, his diversion was to throw a blacksmith's hammer weighing 17 lbs., after which he refreshed himself from a runlet of ale holding two gallons. Like others before him, however, he became a prey to strong drink and died, like Gilbert's precocious baby, "an enfeebled old dotard at five." Intellectual precocity though less rare is more interesting. Child wonders have actually performed mental feats which most adults could never hope...
CAKES AND ALE--Maugham (Doubleday Doran...