Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will go so far as to say that the Hamlet myth is not even a particularly Danish myth." So hazarded, last week, at Copenhagen, Dr. Setala, Finnish Minister to Denmark, onetime professor of philology at the University of Helsingfors, Finnish capital...
...Hamlet," continued Dr. Setala, "may have been a Danish, Icelandic, Swedish or Finnish prince. It is impossible to decide. In Icelandic folklore we find the Hamlet myth related of Prince Amlodi, a word-name meaning 'off his head' or 'silly...
Last week, the Commission recognized 24 acts of heroism. Some dated back as far as 1924. One Hugh O. Smith obtained nationwide mention for the hamlet of Stronghurst, in western Illinois, by receiving the one silver medal awarded. Four years ago, Hugh O. Smith rescued three boys from a burning house...
...north bank of the huge Ohio River and opposite the mouth of the small Licking River that runs north through Kentucky,* was for decades the commercial gateway from the North to the South. Traders, some Jews, from Cincinnati were the first businessmen to settle in many a southern hamlet, village and town. So thriving was Cincinnati that when private developers would not build a railroad to Chattanooga, Tenn., the city itself provided funds and built the Cincinnati Southern Railway, 336 miles long, the only first class railroad owned by a U. S. municipality. Cincinnati was the Queen City...
...Civic Repertory Theatre). In Denmark live contented cows. No one has been unhappy since Hamlet. Or so you feel at this playful Danish version of the proposition that life is illogical. The plot traces the transformations of a mad-ap schoolteacher into a story editor and of his wife from a married spinster into a lady right out of the silk hosiery advertisements. There is a whiff of degeneracy here and there in the proceedings but it is innocuous, like mold on cream cheese. Pale Eva LeGallienne, mistress of the Civic Repertory, has entrusted the piece to Director Egon Brecher...