Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Answer: I have as many as I have moods: Keats, Shelley, Browning, Mark Twain, Shaw, Conrad, etc. Mark Twain? I never sensed him laugh...
...promptly introduced to Premier U Nu. She explored his face with her sensitive hands, pronounced him "a philosopher and a poet." Later, meeting reporters in Rangoon, Helen Keller was asked by Roving Journalist Vincent (Rage of the Soul) Sheean how she felt about one of Playwright George Bernard Shaw's loftier dicta, which, as Sheean recalled, went: "Of all Americans, Miss Keller is the least blind and deaf." Miss Keller replied: "That is not what he actually said. It was at a meeting with G. B. Shaw when Lady Astor introduced me as the great blind and deaf social...
...trouble started, Kerr thinks, nearly 80 years ago, when Ibsen, later abetted by Shaw and Chekhov, renounced melodrama and fancy-dress intrigues and ushered in a drama of photographic realism and socially significant content directed at an audience of intellectuals. Like any fresh theatrical cycle, Critic Kerr feels, the one Ibsen introduced gave new vitality to the stage of its time, but unlike the Greek or Elizabethan cycles, it reached its height in its originators, and has long since outlived its original artistic impulse: "The best new brains are feeding on dead tissue...
...Wilbur Shaw made the grade: he got a car to drive on the big brick oval at Indianapolis. It was a rebuilt Miller, 10 to 12 m.p.h. slower than most other cars in the race, and it was something of a jinx. In it, famed Jimmy Murphy, winner of the Indianapolis in 1922, had driven to his death at Syracuse, N.Y., three years before. To Wilbur Shaw the old Miller was just another car, and the cocky, mustachioed little hell-raiser drove it home in fourth place...
Beautiful Music. Now the 500 was really in his blood. He kept coming back, but for years his luck was bad. In 1931 Shaw showed up with a tiny (wheelbase: 104 in., piston displacement: 156 cu. in., weight: 1,600 lbs.) supercharged special, built by Augie Duesenberg. The sound of that little engine winding up, Shaw remembered later, "was the most beautiful music my ears had ever heard. With the engine turning 6,800 r.p.m., the supercharger was turning almost 38,000 r.p.m., and making more noise than a room full of women...