Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year and a half ago, seven years after quitting the ring. Someone had sold him a bad painting of a clipper ship and it disturbed him. He tinkered with it. After six months he had changed it into a steamboat. Then he saw a movie, The Moon and Sixpence-Somerset Maugham's story about Paul Gauguin. Next day Mickey bought an easel, a palette and a fistful of brushes...
Reluctant Believer. Red-cheeked, balding, Belfast-born, Clive Staples Lewis, 45, has been tutor and lecturer at Oxford's Magdalen College since 1925, teaches medieval English literature. His lectures are an Oxford rarity: they are jampacked. During World War I he served in France with the Somerset Light Infantry, was invalided home. His aunt, says he, was relieved to learn that the wound in his back came from a misdirected British shell, and was not an indication that he had been running away from the Germans...
...Somerset Maugham anticipated another theatrical version of his 22-year-old story Miss Thompson, which became Rain. Coming to Broadway was a fancy edition called Sadie Thompson, "with book and lyrics supplied by Howard Dietz and tunes by Vernon Duke. . . . Anton Tudor will direct the dances and plans to utilize a Polynesian chorus in addition to a corps de ballet...
...Russian issue, long delayed because of financial difficulties, Originally announced as the last Advocate for the duration, this issue is dedicated to Russia and will contain translations of Russian literature since 1917 as well as critisims of Russian drama. A punch planned along the lines of last year's Somerset Maughm affair will be held on October 9 to celebrate the issue...
...symbol, in despair and, ultimately, in hope. Eliot develops his great variations. The sere, cryptic titles of the four quartets are the names of places intimately associated with his experience. Burnt Norton was a Gloucestershire man or near which he lived for a while. East Coker is a Somerset village which was the home of his ancestors. The Dry Salvages (accented like assuages) is a group of rocks off Cape Ann, Mass. Little Gidding was a lyth-Century religious community established by Nicholas Ferrar. Each of the poems has not only its earthly-mystical locals but its season...