Word: saki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such men as Robert Edmond Jones, Donald Oenslager, and Robert Sherwood, but many significant new plays have been given their American premieres here under the Club's auspices. A brief list of some of the more important would include Auden and Isherwood's "The Dog Beneath the Skin," Saki's "The Watched Pot," Johnston's "A Bride for the Unicorn," Coctean's "La Machine Infernale," and Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral." The Club's production of "The Ascent of FL," early in the decade, is still a topic of conversation in the theater world...
...resent the satires on British mores of such writers as Max Beerbohm, "Saki," and Evelyn Waugh, but he will concede humor to the contrariness of inanimate objects-such as the collar-button under the bureau-preferably someone else's collar-button. He dislikes gloomy foreign philosophies such as Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism, and he likes to see them made fun of, in his fashion. Recently he has been getting what he wants in some spirited exercises in the Spectator's colums...
Peacock's short, genially satirical novels established him as one of England's minor novelists. There had been nothing like them before, but there was to be something like them later; Aldous Huxley, Norman Douglas, H. H. ("Saki") Munro and Evelyn Waugh would acknowledge their debt...
...airfield was secured following two violent Jap countercharges which dwindled finally into melodramatic suicide. Drunk with beer and saki, the Japs dashed in waves against American machine guns...
...Saki's short stories, written in World War I, concerns an idealist named Harvey Bope who followed a peace-council suggestion, bought his nephews toys representing municipal buildings, Economist John Stuart Mill, other greats of civil life. A half-hour later he found that the boys had punched holes in the buildings for imaginary cannon, had dyed John Stuart Mill to make him look like a French marshal. Said saddened Harvey Bope: "The experiment has failed...