Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, George Bernard Shaw's advice of the week was to avoid war by producing a dictionary of political terms, in which the meaning of each word would be made quite clear. "The matter is extremely urgent," declared Shaw. ". . . Negotiation is impossible unless the parties use the same words for the same things and understand what the words mean . . . I myself find it impossible to make myself understood . . . Even liars need a language that will enable them to lie unambiguously...
...visits to Russia, one with his parents and Bernard Shaw, he had his eyes opened to the Communist side of the coin. The Soviet system did not measure up to his standards of liberty. "I was anti-Russian," he says, "even before it was fashionable to be anti-Russian." Astor worked in a Glasgow factory and a London bank before becoming a junior reporter on the Yorkshire Post. In 1945, demobbed as a captain in the Royal Marines (with the Croix de Guerre), Astor joined the family's Observer as foreign editor. He is a hard-working boss...
...distinguished for moral courage. In 1934, when his Agriculture Department was purged of a group of leftists, he made a brief protest and then sat silently by. Some of the victims were his close associates.When he made charges unsubstantiated by fact against the atomic-energy policy of Bernard Baruch, he first promised Baruch a retraction, then vanished ignominiously. In crises he is apt to be simply in absentia. If his hodgepodge party breaks up he may stay with it officially but spiritually go elsewhere...
...Bernard Baruch, who had acquired hardly any new honors in recent weeks, informed a Manhattan society .columnist of something rather flattering that Mary Churchill, Winston's youngest, had told him recently: when she was little she had wondered what God looked like; then she had met Baruch...
Eversharp, Inc. got set for a play in pressagentry: it sent George Bernard Shaw a Schick razor. Wrote Eversharp's Sales Manager Thomas L. Kennedy.: "I am informed that you have expressed the desire ... to remove your beard ... If you must use any razor, I trust it will be none but mine...