Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BRIDESHEAD REVISITED-Evelyn Waugh-Little, Brown...
...Yugoslavia. Sane Britons dashed for the slit trenches. At that moment, there appeared on a hilltop, in full view of the enemy, and dressed (as a further aid to marksmanship) in a white coat, an unruffled British officer. He was Royal Horse Guards Captain Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (rhymes with awe), whose seventh novel is the Book-of-the-Month Club's January choice...
...Iolanthe" must rank high on any Savoyard's list of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Packed with good tunes and breathtaking lyrics, it is also a social satire at times as bitter and biting as the early novels of Evelyn Waugh. In short, "Iolanthe" is as difficult to perform successfully as it is easy to make entertaining...
...virgins. Although the only instructions given them were the dimensions of the ad, some of the first ads appeared chock-full of Container Corp. boxes. Paepcke added a second rule: no more boxes. Thus, many of the paintings in the show are as unrelated to Container Corp. as a Waugh seascape is to the Cunard Line...
...comfort in the closely contested popular vote. For Artist Cox's painting, though conservative and wholly understandable, is done in a subtly stylized manner that is no trite affirmation of standard calendar charms. (At least it was not so realistic as the seascapes by the late Frederick J. Waugh, which the Carnegie public picked for five years running...