Word: coulton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Who's Who George Gordon Coulton cites as his hobby "vegetating." By profession he is a distinguished Cambridge historian, and in the last 15 years the body of his scholarly works on medieval life has sprouted as quietly and as fast as the vegetable he emulates in spare time. Last month was published a great comprehensive cabbage of a book called Medieval Panorama (Macmillan $4), a hybrid of all his previous works. It is a wonderfully nourishing dish, but, like most well-boiled English cabbage, dull on the palate...
...Coulton says that he writes, and other people read, history because it is fascinating to see how it repeats itself with a difference - how man's never-changing nature reacts to his ever-changing environment. Some of the evidence for his theory: the description of how a fascist Church thumbscrewed and burned its subjects without even a semblance of justice (there is no recorded case of not guilty under the Inquisition) for refusing to swear undivided allegiance ; how Edward I expelled the Jews from England in 1290, taking their houses, their money, some times (accidentally) their lives. For tile...
...FOWLER -G. G. Coulton - Society for Pure English Tract No. XLIII- Oxford University Press...
...Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, he was so personally retiring, "so shadowy to the public that even at the Clarendon Press there were only two persons who had just once seen his face and heard his voice." This pamphlet-biography (60 pp.) by his life-long friend, George Gordon Coulton, is a little British masterpiece, a Goodbye, Mr. Chips come true...
...many years the talented Waugh family has lived in Provincetown, Mass. Son Coulton is a ship painter & illustrator and nautical expert. Daughter Gwenyth, a costume designer, is married to Artist James Floyd Clymer. The combined Waughs own 13 houses in Provincetown, operate on a section of Main Street known as Waughville, the Ship Model Shop, the Hooked Rug Shop & Hookery. As a hobby Artist Waugh likes carpentry, gardening and making souvenir boxes of sea shells. His prides are a pâpiermaché castle he once built for his children and a chandelier made of old whale bones...