The G.S. Street censorship office noted that this phrase was “merely funny” as a mockery of a woman’s idea of “the new small talk.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this three-word phrase. Mrs. Patrick Campbell risked her career at a play’s 1914 premiere by delivering this line after a Cockney girl is asked if she is going to walk across a park.
ANSWER: “Not bloody likely!”
[10e] Newspapers censored Eliza Doolittle’s line as “Not Pygmalion likely!” in reviews for this Irish playwright.
ANSWER: George Bernard Shaw
[10m] Shaw attacked censorship of one play by claiming this character’s “climb from a fried fish shop down by the Mint” exemplifies “high English social values.” This character’s daughter Vivie discovers her title questionable “Profession.”
ANSWER: Mrs. Warren [or Kitty Warren; accept Mrs. Warren’s Profession]
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