Word: howe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading characters, especially that of Oedipus, which Henry P. Robbins exaggerates and destroys, despite good diction, with a stream of sculpturesque poses, haling deliveries, and indecorous tiltings of the head. Only William Whitman, a last-minute substitute in the role of Creon, approached the adequate. As Directress Mary Manning Howe said not quite inclusively enough in her program notes, "Purists and scholars will, no doubt, find much to shudder at in our production...
...much the quiet, impenetrable aristocrat. He was not in any sense a guy Brooklyn would go for. Worse, he was a Chamberlain man-one of the men of Munich. Why had Churchill sent him, anyhow? Forecasting his mission, people called him "Lord Holy Fox" and quoted Anglophobe Quincy Howe: "England expects every American to do his duty...
...publishers note that the author has "no political or military ax to grind." The statement suggests a very special kind of innocence on somebody's part. There is some straight history in the book, some of it of first interest. But not since the days of Quincy Howe's England Expects Every American To Do His Duty has anyone tried to tie a fancier assortment of knots in the British lion's tail. Stalin and Molotov could hardly have made a balder plea for the U.S. to ditch the British...
Adler Blumer Howe...
...Frank Howe French...