Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rain (from a Somerset Maugham play), Saturday and Sunday, February...
KIRKLAND HOUSE--Razor's Edge (from a Somerset Maugham story), Saturday and Sunday, February...
...deplorably vulgar." Grumped another Conservative, Joseph Kinsey: "It is debasing the standards of the gas board to suggest we should share our baths." Other Britons were taken with the idea, but still found Ap practical arguments to buttress the two Tories' starchy objections. Vacationing at a hotel in Somerset, one couple forgot to turn off the taps with all their rub-a-dub-dubbing, and the water seeped into the bar. The next morning they hurriedly checked out after the other guests greeted them with the Eton Boating Song...
...most notable find was the so-called "black diaries" which Casement supporters erroneously denounced as forgeries. The diaries document his obsession with the price and private parts of an incredible array of consorts. (As the saying went in London when the diaries were circulated, "Gomorrah, begorra!") Oscar Wilde, Somerset Maugham, Verlaine, Gide and Proust are not judged today on the basis of their sexual proclivities; nor, argues Inglis, should Casement...
...Somerset...