Word: brassbounder
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...famed old frigate tied up at Washington Navy Yard. He went poking down into her bilge where officers had to use flashlights, emerged with his grey felt hat battered out of shape by low beams. In the centre of the gun-deck President Hoover stopped to gaze at a brassbound barrel marked: GROG TUB. Commander Louis Gulliver explained that from it used to come the sailors' daily ration of a half-pint of strong drink. The President nodded, passed on silently...
...more intimate, but Bernard and Ellen did not meet for eight years. By that time Shaw had married and the romantic bloom had apparently withered. They did not see much of each other afterwards, though Ellen Terry later played the lead in one of Shaw's plays (Captain Brassbound's Conversion). Says Shaw: "She was always a little shy in speaking to me; for talking, hampered by material circumstances, is awkward and unsatisfactory after the perfect freedom of writing between people who can write." This paper love-affair was the symbol of a sincere affection, but the endearments...
...call on him, but found he was in conference with Sir Henry Irving, her manager. She wrote: "Got no farther than the doormat. Heard your voice and skuddled home again, full tilt, and, oh, how I was laughing! . . ." In 1905, when Miss Terry acted in Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion, she wrote: "You have become a habit with me, sir, and each morning before breakfast I take you, like a dear pill." The New York Times editorialized: ". . . A baking company in Philadelphia makes its pies square. . . . There will still be old fashioned pie-eaters to object that...
...terminated in a quarrel which was never completely explained. Soon after they parted company, Terry became a grandmother and Bernard Shaw remarked: "When her son, Gordon Craig, became a father,*she said that no one would ever write plays for a grandmother. I immediately wrote Captain Brassbound's Conversion to prove the contrary...
Repertory--"Captain Brassbound's Conversion," at 8.15 o'clock...