Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Street if he has sufficient capital and inside information." Then he became first chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, under Franklin Roosevelt, first chairman of the Maritime Commission and last peacetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. At the time of prohibition repeal, Joe set up Somerset Importers, Ltd., secured the U.S. distribution of Haig & Haig, King William IV, other famed brands. The venture was successful...
Britons who rate among life's necessities the hot, soaking bath complete with whisk, sponge and loofah got a jolt last week. It came from testy, aging (78) Viscount Maugham, elder brother of Novelist W. Somerset Maugham. Said the Viscount, during a House of Lords debate on water shortage: "As pleasant as it is to have a daily bath, it is not really necessary to health. Many lads who came back from Africa had not had a bath in three months and they will tell you they were none the worse. A bath very largely is a luxury...
Sheppey (by W. Somerset Maugham; produced by Jacques Chambrun) reached Broadway eleven years after it appeared in London. The last play which Maugham wrote alone is not too shining a valedictory. The hand that wrote this good-by was a little tired, a little cold...
...RAZOR'S EDGE - W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran...
...Somerset Maugham, always a discreet man, has been so imprudent as to live to a ripe age (70) when novelists are usually far past their prime. But, unlike some of his other books, The Razor's Edge is not a potboiler. Nor is it a mess of dotage. It deserves to rank after Of Human Bondage (1915) and The Moon and Sixpence (1919) as one of his three major novels...