Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fashion press, which shows reverence for his work and dotes on his ebullience, has taken to calling Lagerfeld Monte Karl, as if he were some kind of vintage decadent out of Somerset Maugham. Lagerfeld has raised no objection to the name; indeed, as a man who writes his own press kits and describes the "elegant aerodynamics" of his Chanels, he surely knows the value of a catchy moniker. It makes him sound comfortably unlike the world-class designer that he is, hardly the creator of dresses that may, in time, end up where he would probably least like...
...Americans, bursting into an England gone drab and gray and plagued with shortages of everything after four years of war, were nothing if not jaunty. Residents of Somerset still remember G.I.s tossing chocolate bars and gum out of passing trucks to goggle-eyed children. According to a popular gag, so much American chewing gum had been tossed in the fountains of London's Trafalgar Square that the pigeons there were laying rubber eggs...
DIED. Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 83, tenth Duke of Beaufort and, from 1936 to 1978, Master of the Horse, third-ranking post in the royal household; after a heart attack; in Badminton, England. The Duke followed his pack of hounds for more than 70 years and once estimated that he had spent 4,000 days in the saddle pursuing foxes. He defended his passion by saying, "Hunting is the only thing that draws this country together-apart from...
...past few years, oversize, prize-winning stories of figures as varied as Somerset Maugham and Theodore Roosevelt, Isak Dinesen and Lyndon Johnson have sold briskly and drawn critical raves. The volumes have rescued the genre from charges that it was succumbing to the as-told-to stories of celebrities like Phil Donahue, such drugboilers as Albert Goldman's Elvis and George Plimpton and Jean Stein's Edie, essentially a snip-and-paste collage of interviews. Moreover, these new lives are not exclusively devoted to the scholarly examination of papers and letters. "Not long ago, most biographies were compiled...
John Pritchard Somerset...