Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening and had not arrived at expectant Nashville. When he landed at Nashville at 7:55 next morning, the story came out. Darkness had come earlier than expected. The General saw a 500-acre field of young corn and decided to come to earth. It was hard by the hamlet of Eva. One Mrs. B. F. Holland gave him hot biscuits, supper, country style; shelter for the night. It is not recorded whether he was set to watch the biscuits, whether, like that famed cottage guest, King Alfred, he allowed them to burn, was boxed on the ears...
...complete female ticket was elected for the local government of Winslow, a hamlet in the Arkansas mountains...
...distinctly impressed. Shining with porcelain and polished nickel they seemed the incarnation of this hygienic age. Expecting a scientific miracle, I pushed the pedal, spread out my dripping pans and awaited results. A low, dismal groan arose and a ghastly breeze numbed my fingers. I thought of Hamlet's father and my hands shook clumsily as though covered with gore. After three minutes intercourse with the departed. I dried my hands on my handkerchief and arrived late for my next class. Since that time, when feeling particularly optimistic. I have tried these gorgeous white elephants, but always with the same...
...Kritzendorf, small Austrian hamlet, there shuffled off this mortal coil one of the most picturesque characters of an age that is past. Death came to 84-year-old Peter Menth, famed in Vienna and throughout the German Empire as the world's best maker of boots...
Anecdotes of eighteenth century Blue Laws, when theatre productions were banned in Boston and circumspect managers had to advertise "Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet", and the like as "moral lectures", were related by Mr. F. W. C. Hersey '99 in his stereopticon lecture on the Harvard Theatre Collection at the Boston Public Library yesterday afternoon...