Word: evelyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mitford's bestselling Pursuit of Love, published three years ago, especially pleased two groups of U.S. readers: 1) heartthrob hunters who panted with pleasure over Pursuit's hot Paris romance; 2) determined esthetes who gleefully bang their teacups whenever the sharp, wry tongue of their cult leader, Evelyn Waugh, wags through a new writer's prose. Group One will shiver in dry-eyed disappointment over Love in a Cold Climate, Miss Mitford's hot-weather novel for 1949. Group Two will fare better-if they can take their Waugh watered...
Halfhearted Search. "America," Trappist Merton has written, "is discovering the contemplative life." British Novelist Evelyn Waugh- supports such a possibility. In a letter to Author Merton, Waugh said: "I believe there are thousands of men and women in the world who are temperamentally suited to monastic life but have no effective vocation simply because they are ignorant of the very existence of religious life. Indeed, a thesis might be developed to show that the health of society depends on a right balance between monks and laymen-the revolution of the 14th Century took place because the monasteries were full...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 15--Columbia has suspended Evelyn Keyes, contract actress, from salary because she refused the leading famine role in "Baby Is Hero...
...return to Ireland but hated to leave the modern American comforts of his seven-room, prefabricated house in Pinehurst, N.C., solved the problem by knocking it down, packing it into 59 giant crates, and shipping it off to Ireland ahead of him. ¶ Annoyed at her gentleman friend, Evelyn Panagakis, 31, of Peterborough, N.H. got into a car, and made three runs on his parked automobile, smashing in the front, side and rear...
British Novelist Evelyn (The Loved One) Waugh, surveying U.S. letters for a St. Louis interviewer, named his favorite American writer: tireless Crime Fictioneer Erie Stanley Gardner. As for U.S. customs, Waugh complained that Sunday blue laws had deprived him of wine with his meals in Mobile, Ala. He found this situation "a frightful disgrace," which was driving many a wretched U.S. schoolboy to furtive whisky nipping...