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Ellen Terry's letters to Shaw, hardly ever as long, as funny, as well-turned as his, are surprisingly human, touchingly wise. They serve as an excellent foil to the Shavian epistolary brilliance. And she brought out in the "inhuman" Shaw a side his readers and audiences have not...
The Author- When Adeline Virginia Stephen was born in London in 1882, daughter to once-famed Sir Leslie Stephen, literary critic and freethinker, she was related to half the most scholarly families in England (some of them: Darwins, Symondses, Stracheys). When she grew up to be a tall, pale, Burne...
Flying Squirrels Sirs: ''He [Earl Carroll] was the first man to land an airplane in Manhattan's Central Park" (TIME, Sept. 7). Early in the spring of 1914, I landed a Sloane-Deperdussin monoplane, 50 h.p. Gnome motor (some power fer them days, by gravy!) in the...
"Do you not remember that at the time the Emperor was forced out of the Forbidden City, you carried a knife under your sleeve, ready to commit suicide should any mishap occur to the Emperor or yourself? What a holy and divine spirit was that, and how you have changed...
Last year he had sharing his office two raucous instructors. They whistled incessantly, "and always the same tunes, and always off the key. Remember that - always off the key. It is important." To order them to be silent was impossible for kindly Professor Shaw. Besides, their reaction might be more...