Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poker Game to John OHara's Where's the Game? -still worth more than a white chip. Some of them, though, seem to begin after the deal has started and end before the reader gets his fifth card. Best of the lot, perhaps, is Somerset Maugham's Straight Flush, a poignant tale of a man burdened with failing eyesight, and not idiocy, who chose the one time in 64,973 chances to misread his hand and toss a small straight, all pink into the discard. The gentleman gave up his hobby of a lifetime and directed...
Died. Syrie Maugham, 76, former wife (1915-27) of Author Somerset Maugham, mother of his only daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Lord John Hope; of a heart attack; in London...
...last week Boston Real Estate Tycoon Abraham Malcolm Sonnabend, 58, happily extended his right hand, firmly shook his own left hand. He thus Approved a deal to let his restaurant chain, Childs Co., buy three Sonnabend hotels -Manhattan's Plaza, Boston's Somerset and Cleveland's Cleveland-and make himself a potful of money...
...lilt gets a lift from the story, a merry little jape that was cribbed from a 1940 movie, a comedy called Too Many Husbands, which in turn was borrowed from a comedy by Somerset Maugham, who had lifted the theme from a gloomy narrative poem by Tennyson, who had got the idea from a sculptor friend who heard the tale told in Suffolk...
Every reader of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence knows who Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin was: the middle-aged Paris stockbroker who callously turned his back on business and family, fled to Tahiti and became a great painter amid the palm trees and dusky native maids. Devoted Gauguinists have damned the Maugham novel (in which the thinly disguised Gauguin is actually an Englishman named Charles Strickland) as six-pennyworth of moonshine. But they have never managed to scotch it. They never will, because the tale is essentially true...