Word: wappingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the private collections drawn upon, notable were those of : Mrs. Rockefeller, whose U. S. primitives supplied such beauties as Edward Hicks's Residence of David Twining; Sportsman John Hay Whitney, who lent Whistler's Wapping on Thames; Financier Stephen C. Clark, who lent Homer's Croquet...
Beyond saying that he was "frequently and desperately sea-sick," was apt to disobey orders in action and take credit for the brilliant strokes of subordinates, Biographer Bowen does not attack the naval ability of her hero; but of her hero's character and that of his doxy she...
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Gaumont British) follows the formula of old Hollywood gangster pictures in its climactic scene which shows London's Wapping transformed into a shambles when the police bombard a gang of anarchists in their hideaway. Nonetheless, the picture can by no means be pigeonholed...
A sense of the reality of Lawrence's predicament grows on the audience as the audience sees it growing on Lawrence. When emissaries from the Foreign Office demand the note which the mysterious abductors have forbidden Lawrence to give up, it gradually becomes established that his daughter has become...
THE six stories composing this latest volume from the analytical pen of Somerset Maugham are laid largely in the Federated Malay States and the neigbouring lands. But, as one who knows Maugham's work might surmise, the exotic setting of the scenes has little to do with the essential qualities...