Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parkman had disappeared a week before. A man known for his punctuality as well as for his businesslike ways, he had been missed when he did not come home for lunch on the afternoon of November 23. His son-in-law, Robert Gould Shaw, a leading merchant, offered a $3000 reward for his safe return, and by Saturday afternoon had placed advertisements in all the papers and had circulated 28,000 handbills...
...heavily from Parkman, the largest loan coming in 1847, when he had mortgaged all his personal property for a loan of $2000. Included in the property listing was Webster's fine collection of minerals. The next year, still in need of money, he approached Parkman's son-in-law, Shaw, and offered to sell him the collection for $1200. Shaw had no use for a mineral collection, and told Webster so, but he felt such sympathy for the professor that he bought the collection, unaware that it was mortgaged to Parkman...
...probable starting lineup for the Crimson will include captain Mac Hyde, Jim Gale and Tim Draper at midfield; John Baldwin, Tom Crump and Jim Herscot on defense; and Jerry Cotter, Mike Shaw and Dick Pille on attack. Dick Mackin-non will play in the goal...
...Doctor's Dilemma, George Bernard Shaw takes some roundhouse swings at the medical profession. The Harvard Dramatic Club production of the play makes his blows land where they should--but only occasionally. The truth is that Shaw himself sometimes misses, for this is not one of his most satisfactory plays. It contains the usual quota of talk, and much of it is brilliant. But there are other long stretches when the great Shavian spring of wit runs dry, and the playwright's dislike of doctors appears as little more than a querulous mania. The most unfortunate part of the play...
...three principals are surrounded throughout most of the evening by a trio of consulting doctors. One of them, Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington, ranks among Shaw's most acid-edged portraits. As amusingly acted by James Spiegler, Sir Ralph is a bombastic loudmouth full of saws about the powers of science and blissfully unaware of his tragic incompetence. The second member of the group, portrayed by Peter Hugens, is a butcher of a surgeon who believes that all illnesses may be cured by an operation which he has originated. Hugens shows considerable technical ability in the part. The third...