Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apparently both the Times reporter and the Selection Committee had forgotten Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island too. A few days later indignant letter writers informed the Royal Academy that the picture was not only an illustration for Treasure Island, but an exact copy of the frontispiece of John Seymour Lucas' illustrated edition. Embarrassed, Sir William Llewellyn ordered the picture removed...
...Author. Hugh Seymour Walpole, pleasantly unprofound novelist, is the son of an English bishop and feels that Life is earnest. Even in such a holiday tale as this he dutifully wrinkles his forehead, doubtfully wonders about such dark questions as the borderline of sanity, the worth of democracy, Good & Evil. Walpole devotees consider him a good if not a great novelist, a battler on the side of the angels; caustic critics call him pompous and sentimental. Walpole is supposed to be represented in Somerset Maugham's recent Cakes and Ale by "Alroy Kear." snobbish, successful but second-rate English...
...Author. Publishers Farrar & Rinehart stoutly withhold the real name of "A. Riposte," admit the author may reveal him (or her) self later. Whoever the author may be, he (or she) is obviously a good friend to Novelist Hugh Seymour Walpole (pilloried in Cakes and Ale as "Alroy Kear"), obviously has been at pains to ferret out Maugham's career, obviously has a grudge against Maugham. Mindful of possible libel action. "Riposte" steers clear of any reference to Maugham's effeminate men friends (TIME, Oct. 6). Says Publisher John Farrar: "English publishers are cabling violently. ... I feel as though...
Last summer Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman embargoed Russian pulpwood on the ground that it was produced by convict labor. Within a week he was forced to lift the ban for lack of evidence that pulpwood workers of U. S. S. R. were legal convicts (TIME...
...Presbyterian General Council some time ago appointed a special committee to study the spiritual state of the Church. Members are: Moderator Dr. Hugh Thompson Kerr; Dr. William Chalmers Covert, Philadelphia; Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Manhattan; Frederic B. Shipp, Pittsburgh; Stated Clerk Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, Philadelphia. Last week the committee made its first public act: dedicated Feb. 18 as a day of personal prayer for the 10,000 Presbyterian ministers...