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Shaw took for his basic premise the situation of a young man's willingness to be executed in another person's place-very likely suggested by the end of Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities, where Sidney Carton goes to the guillotine in the stead of his friend Charles Marnay. Ironically, death did not, however, remain a matter of stage make-believe. Shaw wrote the play in 1896-97 at the request of the famous actor of melodrama Wiliam ("Breezy Bill") Terriss; but, before Terriss ever essaved the title role, he was murdered by a madman outside London...
...took a pack of cigarettes from the carton in his lap, took a cigarette from the pack and lit it. "It's a good thing too-that something's always happening here. I mean, I just don't have much energy these days. Just doesn't seem to be any reason why I should start anything on my own. Shit, I haven't put a record on myself since last year...
...easy ways of getting rid of the needles. One of the simplest: "Destructip," a 10? device for bending and breaking needles offered by Becton, Dickinson & Co. for individual users such as diabetics. For hospitals and doctors' offices, some manufacturers build a tip destroyer into the wall of the carton. Once the needle has been used, the nurse or technician inserts it in a metal slot in the side of the carton and bends it to break off the point...
...took a pack of cigarettes from the carton in his lap, took a cigarette from the pack and lit it. "It's a good thing too-that something's always happening here. I mean, I just don't have much energy these days. Just doesn't seem to be any reason why I should start anything on my own. Shit, I haven't put a record on myself since last year." to learn about the cinema. But, during freshman year, he began to notice the audacity, and even stupidity, of certain demands Harvard made on him. When his expos section...
...invoked a law left over from the days of the autocratic Ngo Dinh Diem to decree a massive austerity program that sought to soak up cash surpluses by sharply increasing taxes. Honda motorcycles quickly leaped in price from $200 to $400 and American cigarettes from $2.10 to $2.80 a carton...