Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WOOLLCOTT READER-edited by Alexander Woollcott-Viking ($3). A 1,101-page anthology of Alexander Woollcott's favorite reading, including Richard Harding Davis' The Bar Sinister, Barrie's Margaret Ogilvy, selections from the work of Clarence Day, Lytton Strachey, Evelyn Waugh, Thornton Wilder...
Glass, both early and modern American, is now being shown at the Fogg Art Museum. A trip over there will be well worthwhile, as the glass is beautiful, and Sidney B. Waugh, a well-known sculptor, has designed some beautifully etched pieces...
...Steuben Glass is excellent. The lines are good and the designing by Waugh, taking classical mythology as a subject, are well executed. His Zodiac Bowl is probably the most famous and has drawn the highest praise from all over the world. An unengraved piece, a huge brandy sniffing goblet, takes your breath away by its sweep and simplicity and the transparency of the glass...
...portrait of Henry Clay by Giuseppe Fagnani. Of the 45 Speakers that the House has had, 39, in heavy ormolu frames, are there now. Of these only three are out of the ordinary: 1) the first Speaker of the House, bewigged, pompous Frederick Muhlenberg, copied by Samuel B. Waugh from an earlier portrait by Joseph Wright; 2) Champ Clark, best-known Speaker, by Boris Gordon; 3) Thomas B. Reed, which happened to be painted by John Singer Sargent. By custom, the family of the Speaker may suggest artists for the portrait but the Library Committee makes the final choice...
Long before the danger of war focused the world's attention on Ethiopia, that wild country had served as a magnet for such dissimilar imaginations as those of Evelyn Waugh (Black Mischief) and the late L. M. Nesbitt (HellHole of Creation). While both volumes made the country and its people out in strange, terrifying terms, they emerge as even more formidable in the account of Marcel Griaule, whose description of a French scientific expedition that traveled from the Nile to Addis Ababa has the quality of a nightmare sustained beyond human endurance...