H. H. Price 1925 “You’ll be glad to hear that Dr. Moore got into one of his famous rages last Friday at the Moral Sciences Club. Your friend Miss Stebbing read a paper on Whitehead's theory of objects, which was really guite good. But in the discussion afterwards she was very stupid and pig-headed about objects and events …. This drove Moore quite frantic. His cross-examination of her grew more & more ferocious, louder & louder, till at last he rose up, waved his arms about, and fairly roared out ‘Oh Lord! If you can't see that!’ He also climbed up on his chair and looked over the back of it, writhing about and contorting himself in the most extraordinary way, groaning and spluttering all the time .... I must say Miss Stebbing stood it very well …. Her voice grew colder and colder and that was all” [1]
David Pinsent 1913 “Sunday, March 2nd, 1913 At 7.0 I had dinner with Wittgenstein at the Union. We went on to the Sunday Essay Society (of which I am now a member) at 9.0. Scott (of Clare) read quite a good paper against Moore's Principia Ethica. Moore himself was there and was very amusing afterwards: he admitted the book was all wrong, but not for the reasons given by Scott: he got very earnest and conscientious in discussing the question and climbed all over the sofa on which he was sitting, in his excitement.” [2]
[1] Letter to Roy Harrod, quoted by Cheryl Misak in Frank Ramsey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, p. 235). Misak comments that ‘Price didn’t feel terribly sorry for Stebbing, since she “herself tore Mr. Widgery to pieces in a heartless way the week before”’.
[2] Pinsent, D. (1990) A portrait of Wittgenstein as a young man: from the diary of David Hume Pinsent 1912-1914, edited by G.H. von Wright; with an introduction by Anne Pinsent Keynes (Oxford: Blackwell).