Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist Alec Waugh, balding elder brother of Novelist Evelyn, explained to a Manhattan interviewer how the Waughs kept from tripping over each other. "We made a compact," recalled Alec, "that we wouldn't go to the same countries. . . . He took the Catholic countries-he's Catholic, you know. I took the cricket countries. I like cricket and football." Henry L Mencken, keg-shaped sage of Baltimore, received the press on the occasion of a new supplement to The American Language. He reported that the Baltimore Sun had invited him to report both political conventions this year...
...Civilization. In another of his studies, Sykes writes of his friend and companion in Persia, Robert Byron, a gifted Orientalist. At Oxford in the mid-20s he was a leader in the "Oxford Aesthetes," a set accurately parodied in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. But his serious ambition was to understand the entire world into which he had been born. A fair and fearless little man, in the course of a dozen years he lived in every quarter of the world. His loyalty, at first given to his own time, was finally given to his civilization. He died...
...collection of short stories which won the ?500 Somerset Maugham Award in England. Under the terms laid down by Donor Maugham, the British government permits the winner to spend his prize money in foreign travel - and that privilege, in currency-tight England, is a prize in itself. Novelist Evelyn Waugh acidly predicted that "elderly" writers would compete even if it meant "forging of birth certificates, dyeing of whiskers and lifting of faces. To what parodies of experimental styles will we not push our experienced pens...
...Barker (29), the first Maugham Award winner, is no experimental stylist. And even "elderly" Evelyn Waugh (44) might have had a hard time getting the prize away from a book of short stories as original and good as her Innocents...
...Evelyn Waugh, grand old man of Britain's bright young men, reported back (in This Week magazine) after a look at Scandinavia. He found the Danes "the most exhilarating people in Europe. . . ." On the Swedes: "They believe very firmly in their own sanity." The sight of Norwegian statuary bearing no evidence of "any intellectual process or spiritual aspirations" moved him to wonder "what hope there was for the people who had made...