Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between tennis courts, cricket fields and gaming tables, or drifted from Paris hotels to Manhattan hotels, from London to the Isle of Guernsey or the British West Indies, usually fetching up at Monte Carlo or Cannes. There he hobnobbed with other well-heeled amiable drifters such as Edgar Wallace, Somerset Maugham, Sax (Fu Manchu) Rohmer, P. G. Wodehouse, the King & Queen of Siam, the King of Sweden, Lord Rothermere ("although it was before the days of his peerage"), the "inevitable" Berry Wall, Tennis Player Suzanne Lenglen, "whom I boldly declare to have possessed, in her delightfully modeled bathing suit...
...been one of the worst seasons in a generation. Such big names as Maxwell Anderson, Somerset Maugham, Kaufman & Ferber were rubbed out weeks ago. In over five months, not a single original play by a U.S. playwright has scored a real success. Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit and Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street are by Englishmen; Junior Miss is a hack dramatization of surefire short-story material. Only healthy child of Broadway this season is musicomedy, with Let's Face It!, Banjo Eyes, Sons o' Fun, Best Foot Forward, High Kickers...
...from the best available sales figures; and asked a group of "informed people" to say what books "have most profoundly affected the thoughts and actions of mankind" since 1892. On the jury were Charles A. Beard, Henry Seidel Canby, John Dewey, Jerome Frank, Henry Hazlitt, John Kieran, Walter Lippmann, Somerset Maugham, Christopher Morley, William Lyon Phelps, Norman Thomas, Carl Van Doren. Their first ten choices, in order of recommendations received...
...Tennyson on his poem, Lucretius: "What a mess little Swinburne would have made of this." > Somerset Maugham on "the bitter purgatory" awaiting Henry James in the hereafter: "Poor Henry, he's spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over and they're having tea just too far off for him to hear what the countess is saying...
...main features of the Pan American ball to be held tomorrow night in the Somerset ballroom will be the choice of an all-American "Debutante" by the members of the Varsity football team. The distinction will be awarded after much thought and dutiful consideration of the respective merits of the candidates. Under no circumstances will favoritism influence the decision of the judges...