Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Princeton: Harold W. Dodds, J. Douglas Brown, William S. Carpenter, Edward S. Corwin, Christian Gauss, Edwin W. Kemmerer, Harley L. Lutz, David A. McCabe, William S. Myers, DeWitt C. Poole, Paul T. Stafford, Jr. and Charles R. Whittlesey...
Among the outstanding American Hamlets there are pictures and playbills of the productions of Junius Brutus Booth and his more famous son, Edwin. A playbill, dated 1864, announces the appearance of the eminent tragedian John Wilkes Booth, brother of Edwin and assassin of Abraham Lincoln, in the role of Hamlet at the Boston Museum...
Clutching a flopping, broad-brimmed black hat and four books of his verse (The Man with the Hoe, Lincoln and Other Poems, The Shoes of Happiness, Eighty Songs at Eighty), hoary Poet Edwin Markham, 84, hobbled feebly into a Brooklyn court whither he had been summoned on petition of his sister...
...enough for their Hamlets, New York critics last week gave the season's third major Shakespearean headliner his just due and then some. As Richard II, Maurice Evans was "thrilling and memorable" to the Herald Tribune, "triumphant" to the Times, "majestic" to the News. Not even the hallowed Edwin Booth, who last revived the role in Manhattan in 1878, could have asked for more. Actor Evans, a mellowed Britisher, trained for his latest royal part as Napoleon in St. Helena and the Dauphin in Katharine Cornell's Saint Joan. The purple sits well on him as he impersonates...
...particularly with relation to the State regulation of public utilities and the State's ability to assist agriculture, For this table Milburn L. Wilson, Under-Secretary of Agriculture, had accepted but last night telegraphed that he would be unable to come due to the press of official business. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, of the Brookings Institute, and Robert Amory, president of the Nashua Manufacturing Company, have accepted to attend the table...