Word: fabian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Henry Snell, 1st Baron of Plumstead, 79, the House of Lords's capable Government spokesman; in London. Son of a farm laborer, he started work as a potboy, rose to the London County Council, Parliament, the peerage. Onetime Fabian Socialist, he plumped vigorously for marital reforms, himself remained a bachelor. He chose his title, Plumstead, from part of a London working-class district which first sent him to Parliament...
...green, grey weekend in 1896, George Bernard Shaw (see above) went down to Stratford St. Andrew in Suffolk to visit his good Fabian friends, Sidney and Beatrice Webb. The other guest was an idealistic Irish girl named Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend: she came from County Cork; her father was a millionaire. After the holiday Shaw wrote his beloved correspondent, Actress Ellen Terry: "I am going to refresh my heart by falling in love with her. I love falling in love...
Tech 5th Grade Roy E. Fabian, Jr., and Miss Evelyn Frappier of Portland, Me., were married at the bride's home September 4. She will live in Portland...
...This Fabian Society seemed just what I wanted. . . . We began by imposing on the Liberal Party ... a socialist program. . . . We . . . founded the London School of Economics, which has produced Beveridge; added The New Statesman to the weekly press; established an independent labour party...
...course of nature, we young upstarts became an Old Gang. ... Of the seven Fabian essayists of the '80s the only survivors are [Sidney] Webb and myself, both octogenarians. ... Be patient with us: we shall not be long...