Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus begins the Somerset Maugham play in which Katherine Cornell makes anything but merry as Leslie Crosbie, murderess...
...longer will the visiting royalty, the grand opera star stranded in the midst of the Puritans, the very haute monde, automatically head for the classical frigidity of the Copley-Plaza. No more will the debutante spend her long winter evenings under the Louis Quatorze shelter of the Somerset. Hotels--in great abundance--are coming to Boston...
...Harvard undergraduate who enters the Princess ballroom of the Somerset to experience the chaste pleasure of his first Friday evening, and next year rises higher to coming out parties in the gilded salon above, and proceeds to the ocean of engraved cards of Junior year takes a fairly thorough course in the social graces. He learns to sit down without thought of his coat-tail; he has to be able to tell what he thinks of Koussevitsky; he learns the proper interjections into a discourse that is beyond him. Quite naturally then, he comes by all Mrs. Post...
...become famed in other fields; but your list of those otherwise famed is so inadequate that I'm having the audacity to name a few- Rabelais, Agassiz, Schiller, Keats, Goldsmith, Steinmetz, John Locke, Mungo Park, Sir Auckland Geddes, S. Weir Mitchell, Joseph Hergesheimer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry C. Rowland and now Warwick Deeping. The enumeration might be continued, but these will suffice. THOMAS H. MERKLE...
...after the last sheet of copy has dropped into the insatiable basket. During the interviewing period, rumor has it, he spends his time dashing from University Hall, to Soldiers Field, to the H. A. A. in a frantic search for news; assailing famous statesmen in their bedrooms at the Somerset, and actors in their dressing rooms at the Opera House in quest of interviews; writing fervent letters to every acquaintance he and his parents boast; beseaching special articles on anything from birth control to the British Empire. So busy is he on these pursuits, that he foregoes haircuts, meals, movies...