Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lynching of Negro George Armwood. 28, for raping Mrs. Mary Denston, 71. by a mob in Princess Anne, Md. (TIME, Oct. 30): refusal by Somerset County State's Attorney John B. Robins to arrest nine members of the lynching mob identified by eyewitnesses, at the request of Maryland's Attorney General William Preston Lane Jr. who said he "even drew maps showing what they did and where they were." Reason for the refusal: "I don't believe those men would stay in jail. I believe a crowd would form and take them away...
...year young Dr. Burt-White, then head house surgeon of great St. Bartholomew's Hospital, winner of two scientific prizes for his work on puerperal sepsis, was dropped from the medical register for "secret and improper association with a married woman patient." Unlike the disgraced British doctors of Somerset Maugham and other tropical romancers, he did not fly to a torrid oblivion of drink, cynicism and "mammy-palaver." Since his expulsion Dr. Burt-White has been studying...
...KING-Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran...
...Somerset Maugham is the fiction editor's Santa Claus. His stones are intelligent but not highbrow, well-made but not wooden, readable but not offensively scandalous. They are like the quiet but compelling conversation of a man who has seen the world and not missed much to the point. Sentimentalists find Maugham cynical, but in fact he is a psychological realist. Even sentimentalists find his common-sense melodramas refreshing after a surfeit of romance. This collection of stories is dedicated to one Ah King, a Onetime Chinese servant of Author Maugham's, who traveled with...
...right now, I guess. . . . I guess they did a pretty good job." Near Philadelphia their son, William Denston, a motorcycle policeman of Lower Merion Township, showed reporters a piece of rope. "Yes," he said, "I was there. I'm satisfied." Said the sheriff of Somerset County: "Investigation? Oh, yes. Well, boys, I was right in the thick of that affair. . I looked right in the faces of some of that mob and I didn't recognize a single soul- not a single soul. I bet they were from down Virginia...