Word: eunuchs
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...your excellent article on Hesketh Pearson's biography of George Bernard Shaw [TIME, Oct. 5] you quote H. G. Wells as having called Shaw "an intellectual eunuch." Wells has plagiarized the phrase from Byron, who in his satirical dedication of Don Juan said of Milton...
...intellectual eunuch Castlereagh...
Intellectual Eunuch. With his fiery reputation, red beard and white complexion, women found Shaw fascinating. They disagreed with a critic's description of him as looking like "an unskillfully poached egg" or being, as H. G. Wells said spitefully, "an intellectual eunuch." He fell blissfully in love with Socialist Poet William Morris' daughter May. But she married a mutual friend. In later years he admitted that May had a mustache, insisted that "it made a pair of lines so decorative that they would have enchanted the finest Maori tattoo artist...