Word: shavianly
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Quilled the Shavian St. Bernard...
...America that the 'detestable thing' for which God slew Onan is to be worked for on political grounds. . . . The activity of these propagandists upon so-called scientific and humanitarian grounds seems loudly to call for a more active defense of civic integrity and personal purity against these Shavian-Wellsian-Sanger ian-Onanists who work to defile the temple of the Holy Ghost." The Commonweal, organ of the Calvert Society, replied to Margaret Sanger's opinions by disputing her premises. Other Catholic periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her. But it was left for Patrick...
CANDIDA-A new dress for one of the Shavian standbys. Katherine Cornell adds her usual brilliant personality to a consistently capable cast...
...good sport. I admit, to tear to pieces in Shavian wit, a play of a book or a magazine. But I doubt (this is no more than a snap judgment whose accuracy has no bearing on my argument) if even the bombastic Mr. Shaw, after ridiculing a play calls its author an idle dillettante, without first making very sure of his ground...
...prominents listed as backers is George Bernard Shaw. One scarcely thinks of the satirical Irishman-Englishman as a patron, but it will be recalled that early in his career he functioned as a music critic. And one of his first successful books was The Perfect Wagnerite with its characteristically Shavian appreciations of the music of the great Richard...