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John Evelyn John Evelyn
John Evelyn , 1620-1706, English diarist and miscellaneous writer. Although of royalist sympathies, he took little active part in the civil war. After 1652 he lived as a wealthy country gentleman at Sayes Court, Deptford, where he cultivated his garden and wrote on various subjects, including... Read more
drollery drollery
drollery. A comic picture or ‘clownish representation’, as John Evelyn put it when he saw ‘Landscips and Drolleries’ at the annual Rotterdam fair (Diary, 13 Aug. 1641). The term is now mainly applied to grotesque or comic figures or scenes in the borders of medieval... Read more
James Cagney James Cagney
James Cagney 1899-1986, American movie actor, b. New York City. He worked on Broadway as an actor and dancer before appearing in films. He is best remembered as a brash, sadistic, tough guy in such movies as Public Enemy (1931) and The Roaring Twenties (1939). He displayed equal vigor in... Read more
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh , 1903-66, English writer, considered the greatest satirist of his generation. Educated at Oxford, he was briefly an art student and a teacher but spent much of his time traveling. He served with distinction in World War II. Waugh burst upon the literary scene with a... Read more
Pantaloon Pantaloon
Pantaloon a Venetian character in Italian commedia dell'arte, typically represented as a foolish old man wearing spectacles, pantaloons, and slippers; in harlequinade or pantomime, he is shown as an old man, alternately foolish and scheming, who abets the clown in his tricks and provides a butt for... Read more
David Herbert Donald David Herbert Donald
David Herbert Donald 1920-, American historian, b. Goodman, Miss. After receiving his Ph.D. from the Univ. of Illinois in 1946, he taught at Columbia (1947-49; 1951-59), Smith (1949-51), Princeton (1959-62), Johns Hopkins (1962-1972), and Harvard (1973-91; emeritus 1991-). An authority on the... Read more
John Augustus Sutter John Augustus Sutter
John Augustus Sutter 1803-80, American pioneer, b. Kandern, Baden, of Swiss parents. His original name was Johann August Suter. He emigrated to the United States in 1834, went to St. Louis, then to Santa Fe. Fired with a desire to go to the Pacific coast, he went to the Oregon country and entered... Read more
Paul Scofield Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield 1922-2008, English actor, b. Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. Scofield joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1945, and had his first major success in King John. At the Stratford Memorial Theatre he won wide acclaim for his Hamlet and King Lear. His portrayal of Sir Thomas More in... Read more
John Galt John Galt
John Galt 1779-1839, Scottish novelist. He went to Canada as secretary for the Canada Company, founding there in 1827 the town of Guelph and encouraging Canadian immigration. He wrote poems, blank-verse tragedies, and travel books, but he is known chiefly for his novels of Scottish country life,... Read more
Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys , 1633-1703, English public official, and celebrated diarist, b. London, grad. Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1653. In 1656 he entered the service of a relative, Sir Edward Montagu (later earl of Sandwich ), whose secretary he became in 1660. That same year he started as a clerk in the... Read more

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