Word: townshend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their number in America who just paid $1,500 for a copy of Locke's 'Essay on Human Understanding.'" The "Essay" was advertised as being profusely annotated by Shaw. But the annotations were those of Shaw's father-in-law, Horace Payne-Townshend of Derry County, Cork. Satirist Shaw has never read the "Essay," and he does "not disfigure books by underlining them." His practice "is to make a very light dot in the margin with a pencil-tip and note the page number on the end of a slip of paper...
Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend and George Bernard Shaw, 42, were married in 1898. She had just nursed him back to health after a severe accident. She is gracious, completely self-effacing, smart, Irish. Her principal achievement has been to translate most of the plays of Eugene Brieux-previously considered an obscene French playwright by most Englishmen-and to get them triumphantly produced in London, after years of bickering with the Lord-Chamberlain, Britain's play censor...
Literal minded Britons were scandalized, last week, at what they took to be an affront offered by George Bernard Shaw to his good & faithful wife, the onetime Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend...
Though it thus appeared that Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend Shaw may not always have been first in her husband's affections, she good humoredly ignored his Butt-letter last week. Friends found her more interested in recounting the details of a holiday which the Shaws have just taken at Llangollen, in Wales, where they sojourned in a suite of rooms once occupied by Poet Robert Browning. At present international interest in G. B. S. centers upon his forthcoming book, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism which will be published on or about June...
Hollis Hall yesterday witnessed the return of Professor Charles Townshend Copeland '82, who has been confined in the Stillman Infirmary, since December 26 with a painful case of rheumatism. His departure was viewed with regret by the Infirmary nurses, whose daily work has been lightened by Professor Copeland's inimitable comments and by the reading which he gave them last Wednesday...