Word: essayistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Enoch Arnold Bennett, 63, popular, prolific British novelist, playwright and essayist (The Old Wives' Tale, Hilda Lessways, Lord Raingo, Imperial Palace, etc., etc.); of typhoid fever (first diagnosed as influenza), after failing to rally from a blood transfusion; in London. Born of a British middle-class family, he studied law, became a solicitor's clerk, then an editor of Woman (weekly). He free-lanced for many a journal until his literary output brought him riches, made him one of Britain's four wealthiest writers (the others are Shaw, Barrie, Wells). Thereafter he lived in Europe's grandest hotels, bought...
...Tomlinson has never been accused of arson, no London bobby has ever arrested him for setting the Thames on fire. A solid citizen in literature's republic, he is known, liked, admired by other solid citizens. Primarily an essayist, a ponderer, his earnest musings appeal to lovers of quiet English and of quiet English sense (which has in it a touch of the lyrical, a dash of the salty). This book of essays and sketches should cause no fluctuation in Tomlinsons, which should remain steady, safe...
...After leaving school, some men go to college, some to work, and a few to Harvard," declared, one essayist. "When these few get to Cambridge they spend most of their time fighting for 'dear old Alma Martyr, taking Physics and studying objects that can be described as 'completely globular in every dimension,' and reading scenes from Shakespeare's 'Twelfth-Knight'" ... or so the section men might be led to believe...
...Author. William Somerset Maugham (pronounced "mawm"), 56, playwright, novelist, essayist, studied to be a doctor, knows how to articulate a skeleton, but prefers to do his dissecting in books. Of medium size and corpulence, with heavy, mustached face, he lives in Cap Ferrat, France, travels widely, stutters, has effeminate men friends. Though he has written some popular books and plays, his cynicism has kept the great public from crowning him a favorite. Says he cynically: "I have never called myself cynical. . . . I've always thought myself truthful." Author Maugham has written: The Trembling oj a Leaf, Of Human Bondage...
Young Comrade Litvinov. The stock control of Lena Goldfields Ltd. is held by a small group of U. S. and British tycoons who maintain the privacy of their identity. Board Chairman of the company in London is Herbert Guedalla, cousin of elegant British essayist-poet-biographer Philip Guedalla. Of the Directors close-lipped Major Frederick Davis Gwynne is easily outstanding. He went to Moscow in 1925 and signed the original terms of the Concession Agreement, a Russian signatory being young Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov who has since risen until today he is Foreign Minister of the Soviet State. Last week...