Word: kilt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play might have been a success if it has been well written: in fact, it might have been three successes, all different in type, for it contained that many distinct elements full of possibilities in themselves but discordant when bound together. There is Clive dressed in kilt, sox, spats, and sporran; and Clive never fails to make the most out of that costume. There is a third act bedroom scene which might have been made pleasantly risque if the cast, mindful of its audience, had not continually hedged away from the issue unitl the curtain suddenly drops before anyone realizes...
...cause, in her youth, of the British annexation of Upper Burma (Road to Mandalay, TIME, Feb. 3). Camped in the Burmese jungle at night, Maugham preferred patience (he knows 17 kinds) to the works of Shakespeare. In the Shan States he admired the women's dress: short coat, kilt, leggings, with a gap between coat and kilt. Says he: "I could not fail to notice how much character it gives a woman's face to display her navel." From time to time in his travels Maugham met an outlandish character, was often made confidant of an outlandish story...