Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Permit me to congratulate you on the high interest of your issue of July 12, particularly the brilliant, comprehensive and superbly written study of Evelyn Waugh...
...attitude toward death that English Satirist Evelyn Waugh would approve (TIME, July 12). Milles is a follower of the late spiritualist, Sir Oliver Lodge...
...Waugh was already writing Decline and Fall, and he capped that literary success by a solid social advance: he married Evelyn Gardner. Later they were divorced...
Those were the days when Waugh was being one of the Bright Young Things later satirized in Vile Bodies. But Evelyn was constantly widening his connections with the country gentry. He took up fox hunting and began to give examples of a personal courage about which he is quite bland but which amazes his friends. They still wince at the thought of the dauntless little pink-coated figure dashing at fences and ditches that would unnerve more experienced horsemen...
Today the evolution of Waugh the conservative English gentleman is almost complete. His attachments to the old families and the peerage are close. With them and with Catholic intellectuals, rather than among his literary contemporaries, he finds his friends...