Word: westports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colyumist Elsie McCormick of the New York World wrote Novelist William McFee, British author of sea tales: "Living in a small town like Westport [onetime Connecticut art colony, now suburbanized] one sees so many people aping the landed gentry in England that there is danger of neglecting one's work in order to laugh. They are perfectly plain middle class people and as such are charming neighbors. But they have the notion that as someone else has three cars they must have three, and if other folk ride horses and pretend to understand polo they must do the same...
Ladies All. Place a wealthy wench-conscious young bachelor in an isolated studio in the purlieus of Westport, Conn. Put within grasping distance a plump French maid, an unsatisfied wife, and a beauteous blonde sculptress whom he has long and vainly loved. Have one of the three pay an incognito midnight visit to his chamber. Next morning have each vehemently deny, then reluctantly admit, his charge. The result: pleasant theatrical fare for a summer evening. Ladies All is a doctored U. S. version of Rumanian Prince Antoine Bibesco's Who. Musicomedian Walter Woolf, in his debut as a legitimate...
Kerr Eby prefers to wander amid wild marshes, fish in the surf. He was born in Tokyo of U. S. parents. He lives in Manhattan and Westport, Conn...