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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...typographical history of the Bible is no more pedantic than his bubbling monolog on Gilbert and Sullivan (in which it occurs to him that "we get lots of our ideas of government from comic operas and then take ourselves as seriously as Sitting Bull"). From "The Ghost of Gough Street" and "Shakespeare and the Old Vic" one gets a faintly disturbing impression of anglomania, soon dispelled by the mordant judgments of "Are Comparisons Odious?" (on English lecturers and tailors, French politeness and libraries, American politicians and platitudes) and the warm enthusiasm of "Change Cars at Paoli"† (on historic spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bibliophile* | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...suffered his thunderous rebuke in person. In this play Mr. Newton's task has been, avowedly, to string certain gems of Johnsonian talk and incident together on a thin thread of drama and he has accomplished his end with unobtrusive canniness. Dr. Johnson's curious ménage at Gough Street?a party at the Thrales'?Mrs. Thrale's decision to marry Piozzi?Dr. Johnson's death?so run the four acts and among the actors are all the Johnsonian company, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Burke, Goldsmith, Boswell, Peg Woffington, down to Mr. Levett and even Bet Flint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collected Poems | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. ? Mrs. Sylvia Phyllis Cawston Gough, by Captain Wilfred Hugh Julian Gough, of the Welsh Guards, London. Augustus John (noted painter), Baron Maurice de Rothschild, and Bertrand Neidecker were named as co-respondents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 17, 1923 | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

...Daniel A. Buckley; Karl Wetson Baker '23, Harvard Club of Boston; William Dyer Baker '22, Thomas W. Clarke; John Sedgwick Barss '22, C. L. Jones; Pericles Ernest Belfatto '21, Class of 1828; Byron Robert Bentley '20, Class of 1844; Marland Pratt Billings '23, Harvard Club of Boston; Harold Gough Boggs '23, Harvard Club of Nebraska; Glenn Crosley Bramble '23, Daniel A. Buckley; Elmer Osgood Cappers '23, Harvard Graduates Living in Milton; Pierre Gabriel Henri Chalufour, Unc., Lieut Charles Henry Fiske...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE HONOR MEN REWARDED | 1/23/1920 | See Source »

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