Word: dorrit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest blessings British political genius has given the world; and the world has taken it at its self-valuation . . . always with the same result: political students . . . exposing such frightful social evils . . . Parliament ignoring them as long as possible. . . ." Of Marx's Das Kapital: "Little Dorrit is a more seditious book . . . All over Europe men and women are in prison for pamphlets and speeches which are to Little Dorrit as red pepper to dynamite." Said Shaw's literary executor, Dr. F. E. Loewenstein, in birthday tribute: "We have not yet heard the last of Shaw. He might still...