Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of the vitamin in scientific journals. Dr. King's work, well-known and highly regarded among biochemists, was described two years ago in Outposts of Science, an omnibus of science for laymen by Bernard Jaffe (a chemist himself). Jaffe unequivocally credited King and his coworker, William A. Waugh, with first obtaining the pure vitamin: "On April 4, 1932, after seven years of continuous work, King finally isolated fifty milligrams from one litre of lemon juice, and identified the pure crystals. . . . Before scientists gathered at a meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemistry at Philadelphia, King described...
...book begins with Joseph nervously putting last touches on the Wotton Vanborough exhibit. With this scene as its casual centre it launches into a circling recital of upper-crust extravagances and lower-class problems, mixed, its methodical madness suggesting nothing so much as a cross between Evelyn Waugh and Marcel Proust. Proust and Waugh have at bottom much the same chillingly precise appreciation of high-flown decadence, and the combination of their two techniques here serves the author very well. Waugh-ish are the incidental plot and background, which largely describe the scurryings from London to Paris to the Lido...
Since Aldous Huxley wrote Antic Hay in 1923, fair-minded U. S. readers may have felt that the English upper classes were getting a raw deal in modern English fiction. The works of Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Ronald Firbank and lesser observers of the upperworld contain few characters above the rank of a knight or above the ?5,000-a-year income level who are untouched by insipidity, depravity, or both. This week the far less satiric Sylvia Thompson (The Hounds of Spring) contributed another long, episodic novel depicting some unsavory doings among the best people. Since Recapture the MOON...
...Coliseum Theatre by the firm of Chatto & Windus under the editorial direction of five bright young men. Chief of these is John Hugo Edgar Marks, Borneo-born, Cambridge-educated, former film critic of the New Statesman and Nation. Biggest name among Night and Day contributors is Author Evelyn Waugh, as book critic...
Married. Evelyn Waugh, 33, British satirist (Decline & Fall, Vile Bodies); and Laura Herbert, 20; in London...