Word: thackeray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boyhood while the Brahmins ran Boston and the want ads read: "No Irish need apply." He decided that politics was the quickest vehicle to carry him from shanty to lace curtains, developed two tricks to grease the passage. He haunted public libraries, feasted on Shakespeare, Dumas, Dickens and Thackeray, became a silver-throated orator. And he played skillfully and sometimes shamelessly on the pride and privation of Boston's Irish poor...
...encountering a formidable talent. But, as was the case with Proust and Joyce, his greatest impact may be on other writers-who have become increasingly dismayed at the possibility of finding anything to say in the "realistic" novel that has not already been said better by Tolstoy. Dostoevsky, Melville, Thackeray, Balzac...
...shoe sailor," (i.e., no airman), whose square, salt-cured features are often belied by a suave, diplomatic air that sometimes spills over into pomposity. In civvies he sports a Malacca cane. He is something of a connoisseur of wines. He interlards his conversation with phrases out of Dickens or Thackeray, loves to write what he calls "erudite letters" (favorite word: vouchsafe). "If he will ever be known for any command, it will be for his command of the English language," said one officer who served on his staff, and Holloway adds to the impression when he tells his officers...
...Academy) since February has paced a shore-based bridge in London as Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, commuted to his Navy-owned mansion in Surrey in a black Imperial. His clipped accent, his malacca stick with mufti, and his penchant for quoting Dickens and Thackeray delighted Londoners. But in 40-odd years of Navy life, Annapolisman Holloway ('19) has carved a commendable seadog career. During World War II he steamed in with the first African invasion as a destroyer squadron commander, later commanded the battleship Iowa in strikes against the Japanese home islands...
...melancholy reflection that Thackeray's lost limerick about the Countess Guiccioli might have gained him a greater literary immortality than his shelf of great novels. May I suggest...