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George Bernard Shaw
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  • I recall also watching Mr George Bernard Shaw, the renowned playwright, at dinner one evening, examining closely the dessert spoon before him, holding it up to the light and comparing its surface to that of a nearby platter, quite oblivious to the company around him.†  (source)
  • In 1956, she decided to stage a festival to mark the centenary of George Bernard Shaw's birth, and then began putting out a newspaper devoted to Shaw, which mutated into an underground, alternative weekly called The Paper.†  (source)
  • GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!†  (source)
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  • George Bernard Shaw could joke that "England and America are two countries divided by the same language.'†  (source)
  • Caesar and Cleopatra, Act II —George Bernard Shaw ======== Chapter 1.†  (source)
  • ") While the child was asleep, a broadcast programme from London suddenly started to come through; and the next morning, to the astonishment of his crash and crash (the more daring of the boys ventured to grin at one another), Little Reuben woke up repeating word for word a long lecture by that curious old writer ("one of the very few whose works have been permitted to come down to us"), George Bernard Shaw, who was speaking, according to a well-authenticated tradition, about his own genius.†  (source)
  • Never mind that she hadn't heard of George Bernard Shaw until the telegram—he was some famous playwright in England.†  (source)
  • They were at ease in organic chemistry and integral calculus, understood the treason of Alcibiades, could argue the merits of logical positivism, debated whether Eugene O'Neill or George Bernard Shaw was the greater playwright, explained why Thomas Wolfe was a romantic sentimentalist who would never rank among the great writers.†  (source)
  • And we ought to mention another Irish commentator, Mr George Bernard Shaw.†  (source)
  • / The /Shewing/-Up of Blanco Posnet, by George Bernard Shaw.†  (source)
  • The sensation produced in London when George Bernard Shaw put it into the mouth of a woman character in his play, "Pygmalion," will be remembered.†  (source)
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