Word: laver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BACKGROUND FOR VENUS-James Laver -Knopf ($2.50). Patchy, mildly entertaining story of London art, artists, models, dealers and double-dealers...
...those who hold that matters of this sort are not worthy to be discussed in the columns of a newspaper--still faut laver son linge sale en famille." Francis Bigelow Moore...
LADIES' MISTAKES-James Laver- Knopf...
...that of writing verse in "heroic couplets." Though the 18th Century thought it the only wear for poets, it has since dropped completely out of fashion, is now never used as a serious poetic form. For the English, especially, it still has a half-humorous academic charm. Author Laver, onetime winner of Oxford's Newdigate Poetry Prize, comports himself with fair grace in these borrowed 18th Century garments but never rises to the level of Pope's elegance or acid...
...then Author Laver recaptures the authentic 18th Century note...