Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CREATURES OF CIRCUMSTANCE (314 pp.)-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday...
...Somerset Maugham wrote, at 65: "The profession of authorship is on the whole a healthy one and authors are apt to live on long after they have given the world whatever of significance they had to offer." Still healthy at 73, "Willie" Maugham finds the manufacture of short stones without significance a habit he can't shuck...
...George's narrow white streets murmured. Harrington Sound's blue-green waters were vexed. Paget's vegetable patches and Somerset's coves were not as peaceful as they looked. The reason was an ad in the Bermuda Royal Gazette. It said...
...with Andrea Orsini bowing low before the lovely Camilla degli Baglioni. Foxy Andrea can tell that Camilla is una illustrissima, but how is Camilla to know that Andrea, for all his fine clothes, is the son of a blacksmith? Prince of Foxes is laid in the same era as Somerset Maugham's trashy recent novel about Machiavelli. When it comes to the vital business of battles, eye-gougings, jeweled garters, entrancing moles on the thigh, and the neighing of palfreys, Shellabarger writes rings around the Maugham of Then...
...ranging from "the Theatre in Paris" to "The Place of Navi Aircraft in National Defense." Following the ball game, Class members will gather at the Harvard Club of Boston at 6:30 o'clock for the Men's Class Dinner. Wives and offspring will have supper at the Hotel Somerset, where they will be joined by their husbands at 10 o'clock for an evening of dancing...