Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they gave every evidence of authenticity. They included, among other things, portions of Shakespeare's correspondence with Queen Elizabeth, the Earl of Southampton, the Earl of Leicester and others of note, as well as a number of signatures allegedly those of Shakespeare. A page of the original manuscript of "Hamlet", which, if authentic, would be of immense value, was among the papers. There was a love letter to Anne Hathaway and a tribute to an ancestor of Ireland's for having saved Shakespeare's life, a device used by Ireland to strengthen his story. The author even went...
...audiences by going wildly off the silver track. So important had Harvey become that he was later made chairman of the Democratic Ways & Means Committee to collect money for the 1900 campaign. As a result of a quarrel before that election, he resigned and retired in disgust to the hamlet of Monte Ne, Ark. There in a modest little house, he became something of a hermit, puttering around among the hills, issuing dire predictions on the fate of the nation unless radical economic changes were made. A-summer resort he tried to start became an industrial college for Holy Rollers...
...issue. Declared Dr. Goodwin afterwards: "If I were giving a birthday party to celebrate the birth of the nation, I would not have surgical instruments to accompany the cake. I do not admit, as suggested, that to omit the surrender scene would be like presenting the play Hamlet with Hamlet left out. . . . I do not think General Grant would desire to have the surrender at Appomattox repeated in a scene. He was too generous. Nor do I think George Washington would want the Yorktown surrender repeated...
...interviewer, Spreading Germs of Hate, an impartial analysis of propaganda with a preface by Colonel House, and my chronicles of the Wandering Jew and the Wandering Jewess, written with Paul Eldridge. ... To list my books without including these is like printing a bibliography of Shakespeare without mentioning Hamlet...
...seat of learning after having overstayed their vacation because of a snow storm which made it impossible to travel-passed through the place, it was stopped, charged with exceeding the speed limit and each student was fined $10. Tourists traveling east or west must of necessity pass through this hamlet and I would suggest that they "pass right through" thereby demon- strating to merchants that a change in their policy of persecution would be to their advantage. C. G. ABBEY...