Word: bolitho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Times correspondent with the French army. In 1918 he became assistant Paris correspondent to the Times. Unscathed by bullets, he lost a foot in a French railway wreck after the War. In 1922 the Times made him its official Moscow correspondent. Great & good friend of the late Journalist William Bolitho, and of Quipnunc Alexander Woollcott (who describes Duranty as having "a faint air of skullduggery about him"), Walter Duranty, 49, is small, baldish, quietly alert, enthusiastic, quizzical, brimming with unprinted anecdotes. He lives in Moscow with his French wife, infant offspring...
...readers had long guffawed over the frothy imbecilities of his "You Know Me Al" stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle contempt for the people he wrote about. To the late William Bolitho he was "the greatest and sincerest pessimist American literature has yet produced." An owl-eyed, saturnine man, given to one-word epigrams, he was once asked for his list of the ten most beautiful English words. His list: gangrene, flit, scram, mange, wretch, smoot, guzzle, McNaboe, blute, crene...
...late William Bolitho once wrote: "In the luxurious hand dealt England by Fate . . . the longest suit is the Jew. . . . Do not forget . . . Marcus Samuel, who gave them a brand new oil empire; Weitzman, who taught them to make high explosives; Mond. who settled the labor war; Herbert Samuel, who nearly prevented the downfall of coal mining, and Rufus Isaacs . . . who saved the Indian Empire that Disraeli created for them. . . . It is not his brain power, his cunning, which England settled on and used. . . . It is the grand manner which is his genius . . . a politeness that introduces serenity and grace wherever...
Overture is the posthumous play of William Bolitho (Ryall), a journalist whose hunger for ideas led him to attempt expression of baffling concepts. He died last June at Avignon, France, of peritonitis following an appendectomy which a War-time injury had made risky. While a lieutenant in the British Army, he and 15 companions were buried alive in a trench after a mine explosion. His companions died, he was unconscious for several weeks, hospitalized for a year. His play is in many ways characteristic of his life: tragic, bursting with inarticulated thought. The scene is laid in post-War Germany...
Died. William Bolitho (Ryall), 39, South African English-Dutchman, one-time fisticuffer, ship's stoker, reporter. Wartime British Army lieutenant (buried alive in a Somme dugout and consequently rendered unconscious for weeks, unhealthy for life), Paris correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, author (Murder for Profit, Leviathan, Twelve Against the Gods, Italy under Mussolini, Cancer of Empire), dramatist (Overture, 1920), recently a vivid, penetrating triweekly colyumist for the New York World: of peritonitis after an appendectomy; at Avignon, France...