Word: methuselahs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Came a delegation of alien-born U.S. citizens, 40-odd strong, and the President read to them: "It is not very long, as History views matters, since all of us were alien to this soil. I suppose that if Methuselah . . . should drop in on our little party, he would regard us all as upstarts...
George Bernard Shaw: "During a five-night performance in London of my Back to Methuselah, I became angry with my audience 'because they showed signs of exhaustion.' It was reported I showed 'decided pique,' called the public 'mental cripples,' the critics 'quite insane.' Said I: 'If I felt like it, I would write a play that would take a month to perform. Why shouldn't I? ... It is absurd to treat me as though I were a gutter snipe...
...Back to Methuselah, by G. B. Shaw R. U. B., by Karel Capek Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen The Adding Machine, by Elmer L. Rice...
...being produced by undergraduates this term, a weekly and a fortnightly. Cambridge is used to new papers; every four years or so a paper dies and a new one is born. The Granta and The Review are the only papers which seem to show any inclination to follow Methuselah. The Cambridge Mercury will be a literary paper devoted to Drama and the Arts. The "K. P. Magazine", named after Kings Parade the famous Cambridge thoroughfare, will be a weekly devoted to news and articles of general interest...
...Devil's Disciple, by George Bernard Shaw, promised for production last season by the Theatre Guild, but crowded out by Back to Methuselah, will be given at the Garrick two weeks hence. Basil Sydney will have the role of Dick Dudgeon...