Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GENTLEMAN IN THE PARLOUR-W. Somerset Maugham - Doubleday, Doran...
After luncheon at Gore Hall on Monday, C. A. Coolidge '81, the architect, will explain the designs and plans of Lowell and Dunster House, after which the new houses will be inspected. On Monday evening the members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers will dine at the Somerset Club in Boston with G. R. Agassiz '84, president of the Board...
...broker; he is the younger (age: 41) brother of Morgan-Partner George Whitney. His knowledge of bonds is as thorough and keen as any in the Street. Groton-and-Harvard (1911)-schooled, he goes in for such cultured recreations as breeding Ayrshire cattle and fine hunters at his Somerset County, N. J., farm, although he occasionally foregoes these pleasures for yachting (he is treasurer of the New York Yacht Club). Last January, wearied by Exchange travails, Mr. Whitney left for Miami, achieved temporary newspaper fame when it was learned that he took one Joe Perricone, barber, along. Reason: smart Barber...
...much new music. He has great personal magnetism-the kind that makes female hearts beat fast at every concert, although his matronly-looking wife is always present, sitting well back on the right. Surest sign of his Boston success is the fact that he has been admitted to the Somerset Club, a Beacon Hill institution so exclusive that little Brahmins are usually registered for it immediately after birth...
...plenty of money. . . . I want to improve my mind. . . . Most of the time you will find me bobbing around Europe. . . ." White Cargo (British). Several U. S. picture companies wanted to produce this, but Will Hays, supervisor of cinema morals, made clear that he would not sanction it. With W. Somerset Maugham's Rain it was salient on his black list. At last United Artists made Rain with Gloria Swanson, calling it Sadie Thompson; Hays permitted its release, but when producers pointed to this precedent as an argument for letting them bring out White Cargo, even suggesting that it could...