Word: avon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under a warm sun, Stratford-upon-Avon was stirring to life last week. White swans and yellow punts rippled on the gentle blue Avon, and along its turfy banks, lovers lolled and plum trees flowered. But for the Warwickshire town's 13,000 citizens there was a surer sign of the season: the wheels were turning again in Stratford's $3,000,000-a-year tourist industry...
Other canny Stratfordians will also cash in. Just inside the Merry Wives Gift Shoppe is inscribed: "Make Bold With Your Money-Merry Wives of Windsor" This blunt advice* from the best source prompts thousands of tourists to buy knickknacks ranging from ashtrays to souvenir pillows stamped "Stratford," "Avon" or "Shakespeare." All Stratford merchants are aware of what's in a name. Samples: the Hathaway Tea Rooms, the Shakespeare Garage, Shakespeare's Doorstep Woolens Shop, Shakespeare Pearce's Restaurant ("Hot Joints Daily...
...weeks, 400 for the second, plus enough gas to go to &. from their furthest destination. Meat was scarce, British cooking was as dull as ever, and prices were comparatively high. But the intellectual fare was good. The Shakespeare season was scheduled to open this month at Stratford on Avon, the Malvern Festival to be revived with a new Shaw play in July, and the third Edinburgh Festival, in the island's stateliest city, to be celebrated in August...
Best Friend. In Bradford-on-Avon, England, Thomas Musty complained that when he offered a biscuit to the dog that had bitten him the previous day, the dog ate the biscuit and bit him again...
...distant northwest, this one takes in the Radcliffe dormitories and most of the off-campus houses. It is bounded by Shepard st. to the South, however, putting some of the Radcliffe dorms in Ward 8, precinct 5 (see below). Voting here will take place at Peabody School, Linnaean and Avon...