Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Those who qualified as Marksmen, with scores ranging from 60% to 78% were Cleveland Amory '39; Fred S. Armstrong Jr. '39; I. Tucker Burr III '39; William L. Calfee '39; Francis J. Donovan '39; Frank r. Harnden '39; Nathaniel Heard '40; Robert J. Hoye '39; Howard Johnson '39; Bernard Kalman '39; Oscar Swartz '39; Frederick D. Wright...
Despite these scarehead advance notices, the Freethinkers' meeting resulted in no rows, attracted 900 people, deist or otherwise, who felt in safe enough company with such speakers and endorsers of the congress as H. G. Wells, Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis, George Bernard Shaw, C. E. M. Joad. G. D. H. Cole, J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell, Edouard Herriot, Somerset Maugham. Typical subjects for discussion at the meetings: Science and the Churches; Youth, the Schools and Free Thought; Present Religions Reaction and the Menace of the Vatican...
...interest in Biographer Pearson's own life is the period he spent as an officer in Persia during the War; he outstared and outran the natives, boasts of making tough army men eat out of his hand. Of main interest to the reader are his anecdotes of George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton, Frank Harris, Hilaire Belloc, Conan Doyle. The best of them-a sizzling dialogue, between Shaw and Chesterton, Frank Harris' belligerent interview with Galsworthy-are secondhand. Also among the secondhand are such random anecdotes as one concerning a friend of a friend who once found himself...
...Philosopher Joad is no pantywaist philosopher. Three years ago, when he witnessed the first firewalk performed in England (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935); newshawks asked him, as a well-known student of psychic phenomena, what he thought of the feat. Scholar Joad, taking a leaf from the book of George Bernard Shaw, who charges $1 a word for answering questions, said he could make no observations unless he was paid five guineas...
When George Bernard Shaw received a letter from a lady asking him to explain Socialism, he wrote a 200,000-word reply entitled The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. Who it was who asked Dorothy Thompson to write Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide, published this week, the author does not reveal. Miss Thompson, who calls her book "the intelligent Woman's Guide to Isms," approaches the fulminating Fabian in garrulousness and dogmatism, but falls far behind in endurance-her book is only twice as long as Shaw's table of contents...