Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. W. Somerset Maugham took a medical degree at Heidelberg, practiced for a while in the slums of London. Now 50, black-eyed, broad-framed, diffident, he is a restless traveler. His most famed novel, Of Human Bondage, a best seller ten years ago, has had a steady sale ever since. Miss Thompson, a short story of his, was made into a play?Rain?with startling results. His dramas, however, are potboilers. His other novels, short-story collections : The Moon and Sixpence, The Trembling of a Leaf, The Hero, Mrs. Craddock, Liza of Lambeth, On a Chinese Screen...
General Sir Edward Hamilton Seymour appeared before the Committee to prove his claim to the duchy of Somerset, disputed by Lord Hertford. The case has been hanging fire since 1923, when the 15th Duke died, and hinged upon the validity of a marriage contracted by Colonel Francis Seymour and Leonora Hudson...
...merely deserted his ship, returned to London where he died in 1791. Thus the descendants of the Seymour-Hudson union were bastards. Unfortunately for Hertford, he could not prove his story and the Committee accordingly allowed the claim of General Seymour, who became 16th Duke of Somerset; the first was Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew, Edward...
...Charles R. Elint began his lifelong habit of forming mergers and combines. His sobriquet "father of the trusts" has been gained by the active part which he has played in the organization of 22 large corporations, including U. S. Rubber, American Woolen, American Chicle, Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Somerset Coal. Mr. Flint is now 75 years of age, but his favorite occupation still has such a hold upon him that he is now planning the largest project of his life?a $100,000,000 merger of soft-coal companies in West Virginia, involving about 75,000 acres of undeveloped coal...
East of Suez. Pola Negri has a new coif, and no becoming one at that. Much less inflaming than usual, she writhes her way through W. Somerset Maugham's play about a Eurasienne, who was shanghaied, in the city of that name, by a yellow gentleman with enormous talons and discomfiting eyes. Before that she had planned to marry a young Britisher (Edmund Lowe). Afterwards she married her rescuer (Rockcliffe Fellows). There are sentiment, sobs, horror, passiont close-ups-far east of Suez...