Word: waugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honored enough to behave like one of his own characters, British Satirist Evelyn (The Loved One) Waugh showed up as honor guest at a London literary luncheon bearing an elegantly Victorian, 2-ft.-long ear trumpet. Waugh, not widely known to be hard of hearing, waggled his antique radar about happily while chatting with table companions, clowned his listening gear with a flourish when an old enemy, Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge rose to speak, crowed later: "I did not listen to a word he said. I do not like that man. We met once in Africa...
Phony Fog-Pills. For the next perilous months, the realities of war took place in the air. Fantasy possessed the ground. Historian Fleming acknowledges that Evelyn Waugh's fictional persiflage, Put Out More Flags, is an excellent guide to the spirit of the period. The Home Guard went into action, some appearing on horseback with bowler hats and shotguns. Others (including Author Fleming) were organized into guerrilla bands with underground hideouts like "the Lost Boys' subterranean home in the second act of Peter Pan", with the object of harassing an invading army. The General Staff puckishly referred...
Script Change. By this time, Hitler was parachuting spies into Britain, and the script changes from Waugh to something by Olsen and Johnson. One spy. half-Japanese, was captured with binoculars and a spare pair of shoes hung around his neck. Another dropped in Ireland wearing a beret and high boots, lost his invisible ink swimming the River Boyne. As part of his design to scare the British, Hitler ordered "pack assembles'' dropped at random over the countryside. They included radios, maps and instructions to imaginary secret agents. Unmanned parachutes were dropped to spread the notion that...
Island in the Sun (Darryl F. Zanuck; 20th Century-Fox), an unraveling of Alec Waugh's 1955 bestseller, is Moviemaker Zanuck's first lone-wolf production since he left Fox. This turbid plot-boiler clearly rates a special award as the sexiest West Indian travelogue ever made. The mating season is always in full swing on the throbbing Caribbean isle of Santa Marta, which doubtless boasts the highest imaginary birth rate of any 50-mile-long island under the sun. Island employs even the unsubtle cinema device of the screen-bottom exit, pointed up with gasps and romantic...
Dulles' outline left many a gap and blank to be filled in. One gap was soon pointed out by Export-Import Bank President Samuel C. Waugh. Would the fund's easy terms undermine the businesslike hard loans that both the Export-Import Bank and World Bank are trying to make the basis for sound international development? "Soft" loans, Waugh told the Senate committee, could "imperil the status of any loans made on a strictly banking basis." Also missing from the plan was any proposal for legislation to encourage private investment abroad...