Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's Government's real-life Sherlock Holmes, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, just sensationally foiled in Brighton Trunk Murders No. 1 and No. 2 (TIME, March 4), last week had on his laboratory table two human legs, neatly cut off below the kneecap. They were found last week under the seat of a train arriving at Waterloo Station...
Special commendation went to Frederick S. Bigelow '38, of Concord, Massachusetts, who prepared for Harvard at St. Paul's School, and to Bernard A. Helfat '38, of Lawrence, Long Island, a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy...
...Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (by George Bernard Shaw; Theatre Guild, producers). Fifty years ago last week a young man with lots of self-confidence sat down in the reading room of the British Museum to write his first play. He called it Widowers' Houses. George Bernard Shaw had already met with indifferent success as an orator, fictionist and Fabian Society member when Dramacritic William Archer presented him with a skeleton plot and persuaded him to turn his talents toward the theatre. It was not long before Shaw was back with the news that he needed more plot, having...
Audiences at the world première of his 33rd full-length play in Manhattan last week found that a half century had not improved Bernard Shaw as a dramatic structuralist. Loyal Shavians were quite prepared for that, since their idol has never wasted much time on the packaging of his products. What they were not prepared for was the woefully stale and shopworn condition of the product itself...
What made the play's failure doubly pathetic was that, despite Arms and the Man (1894). Candida (1894), Caesar and Cleopatra (1898), Man and Superman (1902), Major Barbara (1905), Getting Married (1908) and Pygmalion (1912), George Bernard Shaw had at 78 just been voted in a British newspaper poll the public's greatest bore (TIME...