G. B. SHAW AND WAR
NO GAS-MASK CARRIED SPECIALLY-DESIGNED HAT LONDON, Dec. 1. George Bernard Shaw does not carry a gas-mask. He has devised his own air raid precautions, and this week he came up to London to place orders for one hat, lined to safeguard the Shavian skull against shrapnel; one white coat, as a warning to motorists; and one white walking stick. "My warden has fixed me up with a gas-mask at my Hertfordshire homo,” he said, "but I find it a hit of a nuisance to carry about with me.”
“What about the beard?” he was asked.
“Oh, that,” he laughed. “The warden managed to fix it up quite comfortably, thanks.”
Shaw remembers the last war we l enough to know the danger of falling shrapnel. “I’m getting a hat made to keep the stuff out,” he said. His new hat is to be lined with a form of bakelite.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20131, 28 December 1939, Page 11
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153G. B. SHAW AND WAR Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20131, 28 December 1939, Page 11
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