Word: mitchinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain came the most amusing satire of World War II. Called The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World (Faber & Faber, 6s.), it is a breezy but atrabilious burlesque at the expense of postwar plan ners. Author: Britain's bearded, ebullient Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, who in the last ten years has espoused pacifism, Mosleyism, polygamy, socialism, appeasement, Christianity, spiritualism, hedonism. He has also written some earnest, reputable books of philosophy, become one of the most popular members of the British Broadcasting Corp.'s "Brains Trust" (Britain's Information Please...
Bearded British Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, plumber for polygamy, last week recommended four additional postwar freedoms: free gambling, freer drinking, cafe terraces and Sunday shows. To attract tourists to the Isles, he suggested that Britons "stop treating foreigners as monsters of immorality and freaks of eccentricity. . . . Also we should learn to cook...
Sleet-bearded Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, 51, plumped for polygamy as a solution of his country's preponderance of women (2,000,000 surplus): "I, for example, like the company of different women for different purposes-one to go out to dinner with, another to go to church with, another to cook for me, another to mother me, another to play games with, and another to make love...
...danger zone 200 miles away; it was a wet, cold, angry evening. At an emergency underground studio arrived Expert No. 1: wild-haired Professor Julian Huxley, fresh from the Zoo, where he had been seeing to the safety of tigers. Expert No. 2, Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, clumped in on loud-nailed boots, carrying a vast haversack. Expert No. 3, Commander Archibald Bruce Campbell (retired), glared red-faced at his high-brow colleagues. The first question, propounded by elegant Humorist William Donald McCullough, was "What are the Seven Wonders of the World?" Nobody knew...