Quiller- Couch Showed: Quiller- couch showedCOUCH, kwil'er-kooch', SIR Arthur Thomas (pen name Q), British author: b. Fowey, Cornwall, England, Nov. 21, 1863; d. there, May 12, 1944. He was educated at Oxford, where he was classical lecturer in 1886-1887 and won some success with his first novel, Dead Man's Rock (1887). In 1887 he began a literary career in London, where in 1889 he joined the staff of Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid's newly established Liberal weekly, the Speaker, with which he re¬tained connection for 10 years. Several of his contributions to it appear in the collections of his short stories, Noughts and Crosses (1891) and The Delectable Duchy (1893). In 1898 he was given the commission to complete Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel, St. Ives. Quiller- couch showedCouch was knighted in 1910 and in 1912 became professor of English literature at Cambridge. From 1891 he lived at Fowey and in 1937 served as its mayor.
As a critic, Quiller- couch showedCouch showed incisive insight, although his enthusiasms were conven¬tional. Among his critical and biographical works are Adventures in Criticism (1896) ; On the Art of Writing (1916) ; Memoir of Arthur John Butler (1917) ; Shakespeare's Workmanship (1918) ; On the Art of Reading (1920) ; Studies in Literature (1922) ; Charles Dickens and Other Victorians (1925) ; The Poet as Citizen (1934) ; and Victors of Peace: Florence Nightingale, Pas¬teur, Father Damien (1937).
QUILMES, kel'mes, city, Argentina, in Buenos Aires Province, capital of Quilmes Dis¬trict.See Also Revitalising A Couch:The easiest solution to revitalising a couch or armchair is to buy a length of attractive fabric and drape it over the furniture. How much you want it to overhang and how much you tuck it in depends of the style of the rest of the decor in the room. You can finish the cover with fringe, or a decorative trim or braid. A lovely drape can be achieved with an ethnic bedspread or a beautiful woven rug.
One way of breaking up the expanse of loosely draped material is to cover it with an array of brightly colored cushions. This is especially effective if you use scraps or remnants of expensive fabrics such as plain silk or brocade, and make small cushions in different sizes and shapes.
Knight, 58, a self-defined car guy since age 12, designed the Garage to be practical as well as a place to relax. In addition to a mechanical lift and equipment that enables him to do all of his own repairs and maintenance, he also has a television, stereo system and couch.
On The Other Hand See Couch Ette:Remember one other little pointer. Continental theater ushers, wash¬room attendants, doormen, gas station folk and the like, at least in the lands of Latin heritage, expect something. In France, the theater usher¬ette will stand beside you, flashlight aimed at your hands if necessary, till she gets what she considers her just due, 20 francs being about the irreducible minimum. In a Paris movie I once gave the girl a meager 5 francs because it was all the change I had. In a sharp and wrathful whis¬per she told me it was not enough. I told her I had no more petite mon-naie (small change) but she insisted on my giving her a thousand-franc note, my smallest, to change. It took her many minutes to go and assemble 980 francs, but she did it.
Quiller-couch ette made his reputation as a writer of novels and stories and as a poet with a fine gift for parody, later turning to literary crit¬icism and his well-known anthologies. A vivid style, subtle and poignant humor, and vigorous and colorful imagination are characteristics of his writings. For his earlier work he used the pseudonym Q. His novels and stories are mainly Cornish in background.
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