Word: osbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like his great black booby face." Waugh also noted disapprovingly that Poet Edith Sitwell and her family lived on terms of "feudal familiarity" with their servants. "Come on, one of you's got to go," said the footman, trying to persuade Edith or her reluctant brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, to go upstairs to visit their mother. After lunching at the Ritz with Noel Coward, Waugh commented: "He has a simple, friendly nature. No brains and a theatrical manner...