Crossword-Solution: MAUGHAM
We have 11 clues for the answer “MAUGHAM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Cakes and Ale" novelist Somerset | 1 answer |
| "Strictly Personal" author, 1941 | 1 answer |
| "The Moon and Sixpence" novelist W. Somerset | 1 answer |
| "The Razor's Edge" novelist | 1 answer |
| Author of "The Razor's Edge." | 1 answer |
| Author of Of Human Bondage. | 1 answer |
| Miss Thompson's creator | 1 answer |
| Rain maker | 2 answers |
| "Of Human Bondage" author | 2 answers |
| "The Razor's Edge" author | 2 answers |
| English author. | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MAUGHAM (5)
Somerset Maugham succeeded in shocking Broadway so that the sidewalks were filled with blushing ticket-speculators.
The point I'm leading to is that in one of his books, 'The Summing Up,' I believe, Maugham mentions in passing that had he got to Petrograd possibly six weeks earlier he thinks he could have done his job successfully." Paul looked at him blankly.
When you told me about the Germans sending Lenin up to Petrograd in hopes he'd start a revolution and the British sending Somerset Maugham to try and prevent it?" "Yes, yes, man.
Are you _sure_ that the opposite isn't true? Are you sure it isn't Maugham's job I should have? Let me tell you, Chief, these boys I'm working with now are sharp, they've got more on the ball than these Commie bureaucrats running the country have a dozen times over.
Frohman thought a moment, and suddenly flashed out: "Why not rewrite 'The Taming of the Shrew' with a new background?" "All right," said Maugham.
Quotes with MAUGHAM (3)
It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.
But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return. Was that so depressing? Who knows? Maybe that was 'despair.' What Turgenev called 'disillusionment.' Or Dostoyevsky, 'hell.' Or Somerset Maugham, 'reality.' Whatever the label, I figured it was me.
Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, WP.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1947–2022).