Word: raconteurism
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MULLINER NIGHTS-P. G. Wodehouse - Doubleday, Doran ($2). More Jesuitical relations in the bar parlor by Raconteur Mulliner...
Died. Addison Mizner, 60, famed Palm Beach host, raconteur, realtor, author (The Many Mizners), architect credited with reviving Spanish architecture in Florida, son of the late Architect Lansing Bond Mizner who planned San Francisco; of a heart attack after a two-month illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. Just before he died he received a telegram from his brother Wilson, "Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy." He replied, "Am going to get well. The comedy goes...
...shouting for more and bigger loans to Chile, which many Chileans feared as "giving a foothold to imperialism." No sooner did times turn really bad than he popped up at Santiago as a bantam Stalin. A man with a host of friends, a good fellow, spender, gourmet, racy raconteur, Don Carlos was not down last week merely because he seemed...
Died. Bozeman Bulger, 54, sports writer (baseball), playwright, raconteur; of heart disease; in Lynbrook, Long Island. Good friend to all baseballers, he wrote for the old New York World from 1905 until it was sold last year. Famed for his stories of the fabulous batsman, "Swat Milligan of the Poison Oak team," Writer Bulger had since been with Saturday Evening Post. During the War he led troops in the Argonne, became chief press representative on General Pershing's staff. At a dance in Coblenz after the Armistice, gay Writer Bulger amazed British officers by cutting in on Edward...
...sort of Anglophilism which says that the English gentleman is the highest example of human civilization. In all he is not a prophet; he has merely made an admirable study of the British national character and psychology, and has shown himself to be a perfect traveler, an amusing raconteur, and a sound and forceful critic...