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...dark lady was a married woman who broke her bed vow (Sormet 152), but Mary Fitton was single when she was William Herbert's [later the Earl of Pembroke-1580-1630] mistress ... He refused to wed her . . . After bearing three illegitimate children to three different men, she married rich and died respectable. But-alas for the supporters of the Fitton-Herbert theory-Mary inconveniently turns out, from the evidence of her portraits, to have been not dark but fair, with light brown hair and gray eyes. For hair, Shakespeare's dark lady had "black wires"; for eyes, "pitch...
Discrimination was described from three aspects at yesterday's meeting. Hastie opened with general comments relating to administration of the program, and an Indian exchange student, Surandar Suri followed describing the general friendship he has found. Mrs. Earl Redmond, one of the attending rooming-house operators, added that she has found no problems in renting to foreign and Negro students...
...this monstrosity!" cried Lady Beatrix. "It makes me not angry but frenzied. That figure has got leprosy. It has got cancer ... If we go down to hell we will see something like that." The Friends decided to delay the presentation of the statue; said the presiding Friend, the Earl of Rosse: "It is notoriously difficult to judge works of art in cne's own day. The public should be allowed to judge...
Command Decision. In Central Valley, Calif., when a fire alarm interrupted the crowning of the queen at the annual Firemen's Ball, Chief Earl Stevens dispatched all his men to quell the blaze, stayed on himself to complete the coronation...
Shakeshafte by any chance Shakespeare? According to Stratford records, Shakespeare's grandfather was sometimes listed with a "shafte" rather than a "speare." As for young William himself, he was known only to have been a member of the Earl of Derby's players later in life. But some of those players had apparently come from the household of one Sir Thomas Hesketh of Rufford, who was not only related to Thomas Savage, one of Shakespeare's Globe Theater partners, but also to Sir Alexander Houghton, Shakeshafte's patron. In his will, Keen found, Houghton had recommended...