Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prominent villagers in the hamlet of Balaton-fured, Hungary, puzzled last week over an intense, anxious cablegram signed by Poet-Sage Sir Rabindranath Tagore of Santiniketan, Bengal, India. When they had made out what was wanted the villagers went out and examined a sapling. "It is shedding its leaves," they cabled back to Tagore, "but its sap is healthy and its life seems assured." Four years ago the sapling was planted as a "Hope Tree" by the Sage. He is supposed to believe that the planter of such a tree will live for at least five years after the planting...
...down, never got anywhere; but Edevart nearly made his pile, succeeded at least in giving his young brother the chance to reap where he had sowed. When he was skipper for Trader Knoff, Edevart was the big man of Polden, and brought a short-lived prosperity to his native hamlet. But he was always too kindhearted, the roguery he learned from August never really became part of him; and another man's wife took all his savings to the U. S., leaving him with a worthless farm, bitter memories...
...with his wife and daughter on Boar's Hill, five miles from Oxford, where his melancholy mien and rusty, plunging gait are a perennial peripatetic phenomenon. He founded the amateur Boar's Hill Players, who acted now Shakespeare, now Masefield; he himself once played the ghost in Hamlet, hinnying like a snipe...
Cards and bowling were the most popular of the forbidden pleasures. In 1835, 31 students were fined $2 apiece for attending a dancing school. Theatrical performances, permitted for a short time, were even banned because of the resulting disturbances of the peace in this quiet little hamlet, nesting peacefully at the foothills of the White Mountains...
...items, once the property of bewhiskered, un-Big Businesslike Mr. Folger, are: the only known copy of the first collected edition of Shakespeare's works; a copy of Titus Andronicus published in 1594; many an early quarto; one of the three existing copies of the second edition of Hamlet* Amherst's Board of Trustees will administer the $10,000,000 fund, for which service the college will receive $250,000. When the Memorial is completed. Amherst's trustees will take whatever steps seem necessary to finance Shakespearean investigation and disseminate knowledge of Shakespeare...