Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estimated 400 representatives of the Crimson and Big Green will stage their annual combined revel next Friday night at the eighteenth annual Harvard-Dartmouth ball, scheduled to be held again in the sumptuous and spacious Louis XIV ballroom of the Hotel Somerset...
Familiar indeed to readers of Somerset Maugham was the story's plot, a simple, violent tale of British mannerliness upset by tropic passions. Last December 57-year-old Sir Jock married young Diana Caldwell in London, brought her out to his Kenya estate. At the smart Muthaiga Country Club she had met the dashing earl, fallen violently and very publicly in love with him less than a month after her marriage. Sir Jock had tried to persuade her to go with him to Ceylon to forget the earl. When she refused he even offered to go away himself. Then...
Last week the official London Gazette announced that "The King has been graciously pleased to give . . . the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire" to Fred Mitchell, Head Shepherd, North Somerset, for "brave conduct in Civil Defence...
When Haverford asked René de Chambrun, son-in-law of France's No. 1 Nazi collaborator Pierre Laval, to address the student body Dr. Morley rejected Dr. Hotson's suggestion that he also invite British Novelist Somerset Maugham. And when Dr. Reitzel invited Eugene Houdry, president of France Forever and a supporter of General de Gaulle, Dr. Morley objected, and the speech was canceled...
...sixth and last production for a season which is fading faster than the trees are taking on their summer wardrobe in the Yard, the Theatre Guild brings a new play by a new writing team. "Theatre," first issue from the literary marriage of Somerset Maugham and Guy Bolton, is handicapped by a plot as unimaginative as its title; but the old theme of the married stage celebrities who separate, have several affairs and reunite, is so literally enlivened with the authors' racy wit, that Bostonians will not hurry to forsake their seats for the beaches...