Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Left by the deaths of Historian Charles A. Beard, Educator Nicholas Murray Butler, Critic Royal Cortissoz, Scholar-Editor-Politico Wilbur L. Cross. A.A.A.L. membership (which is for life) is limited...
...SAMUEL BUTLER (118 pp.)-G. D. H. Cole-Alan Swallow...
...always, Shaw enjoyed himself. He trotted out a string of British and Irish influencers whom most of the critics had never heard of or never deigned to bother with. But high up on Shaw's eccentric list was eccentric Samuel Butler (1835-1902), novelist and creative evolutionist. "It drives one almost to despair," snapped Shaw, "when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous Way of All Flesh making so little impression that when I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh, free, and future-piercing suggestions have an obvious share...
...around when the honeymoon is over. It was over for me in the Ritz bar one hour after the Cornell game. For the team, it wasn't a honeymoon on the long train ride from Ithaca to Cambridge. It wasn't a welcome home for Paul O'Brien, Sam Butler, and Ralph Bender when I ignored them at the Monday morning eleven o'clock because I blamed them for letting Cornell backs get through the center of the line. I forgot that they were playing their first year of varsity ball...
...next week at West Point I was cheering for O'Brien, Butler, and Bender. I out-howled the Army major next to me watching the mighty efforts of Howie Houston. I thumbed through my program to find out that number 77's name was Willie Davis. When Army center Bill Yeomans was flattened by Crimson guard John Coan, I slapped the major on the back. And at the end of the game, I saw the Crimson, standing at attention, better than the Cadets, while the Band played "Fair Harvard." I didn't gave a damn that we'd lost...