Word: chuzzlewit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overrated hypocrite or a great man who actually got his due, Author Kingsmill tries to stir up the dying ripples whereas Author Maurois does his tactful best to pour oil on them. U. S. readers, not because they have read Dickens' vituperative American Notes or Martin Chuzzlewit but because Kingsmill's attack is more convincing than Maurois' defense, will be inclined to agree that Dickens was not all his partisans have cracked...
Died. William ("Willie") Clarkson, 73, famed London wigmaker and costumer; suddenly, after a stroke; in London. When his father, portrayed as "Poll Sweedlepipe" in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit, died, Son William, 15, took over the Drury Lane Wiggery. He made wigs for the celebrities of the opera and theatre, masquerade costumes for Europe's crowned heads, the phrase "Wigs by Clarkson" a program fixture...