Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson football team has been picked for third place in the Ivy League next year, it was revealed yesterday. An "anonymous winter book" compiling the different strengths of the teams gave this prediction at a Monday meeting of the league's grid coaches in Boston...
...intention of living on a crust in a garret if I could help it. I had found out that money was like a sixth sense without which you could not make the most of the other five." Maugham's senses are well satisfied, and in this latest last book he allows himself that ultimate luxury: the writing of essays for pleasure alone...
...cheerfully resigned remarks about imminent death, he is in sound health, reads, entertains, eats and drinks well, and is planning a trip around the world that will include the Far Eastern settings (Burma, Thailand, Japan) of some of his best-known stories. And though this is absolutely his last book, he is still writing. "I am still amusing myself putting down different things that occur to me. But anything so written will be published only after my death." To those who have been listening to the Maugham swan song over a decade, it can only mean that he is working...
Today's dean of British humorists is a 77-year-old U.S. citizen who has lived in America on and off for half a century and now resides permanently at Remsenberg, L.I. The blurb to his new book of ten short stories suggests that "the sound of [his] clicking typewriter keys beats a gentle staccato against the roar of the ocean surf." The volume is recognizable Wodehouse, gently satirical, its barbs wielded with whimsy. But the more remarkable thing about Pelham Grenville Wodehouse in his twilight years is the way the decades of ocean-hopping have scrambled his language...
Around this intrinsically fascinating story, Author Flavia Anderson has wrapped the bulky burlap of 50-odd volumes of research. Cliché-laden and crammed with minor figures, the book has a narrative pace roughly that of a Yangtze barge hauled upstream. But it is a historical trip worth taking for readers who can match Author Anderson's labor of love with a love of labor...