Word: millionaress
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Figures v. Ideas. From a secretary's point of view, he was both admirable and incorrigible. In three decades of typing his manuscripts, she found only one word he was apt to misspell ("millionaress"). Together they figured out the massive Shavian income tax; so good was Shaw's head for figures that he received a letter of thanks from His Majesty's inspector of taxes. But when an idea became involved with the figures, Shaw's acumen (and scruples) deserted him instantly. When he became convinced, as he did in his last years, that...
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