Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Black River. Mrs. Sarah Pollard, 87, aunt of President Coolidge, told how the flood came to Proctorsville, Vt., shaking that hamlet at night "like a huge, grey monster...
General Arnulfo Gomez, onetime presidential candidate, fell into an ambush prepared for him by General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, who personally made the capture. A few hours later he was executed by a firing squad in the hamlet of Teocelo, Vera Cruz. With him died his nephew, Lieut. Col. Francisco Gomez Vizcarra. Shortly afterwards, Federal troops also shot General Adalberto Palacios, Colonel Salvador Costanos, Major Francisco Meza Perez. Their bodies were all shipped to Mexico City, where their relatives claimed them. Each showed a bullet hole through the temple...
...trimmest of modern clothes and plainly marked "Talk -do not recite, intone, pant, blow." It is as clear as a cinema subtitle; clearer. The plot is concentrated in the name; a villainously bad tempered woman is bewildered, wed, cowed by a big beautiful brute. Basil Sidney, who played Hamlet in modern clothes first for Manhattan, acted the tamer ably, though he appeared a trifle over-conscious of his bigness, beauty, brutality. Mary Ellis, the shrew, battled gamely and gave in irresistibly. Their troupe is excellent and the laughs resound, particularly from those who think Shakespeare highbrow. Among the modern accessories...
...play, Hamlet's greeting to his college mate Horatio was: "But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?" At that German university Martin Luther taught philosophy in 1508. Hamlet, before his father's murder had muddled his feelings and emotions, had spent happy undergraduate semesters there. He longed to return. But his uncle-stepfather* urged: "For your intent in going back to school in Wittenberg, it is most retrograde to our desire; and we beseech you, bend you to remain here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son." His mother...
...Hamlet's paternal uncle poured poison into Hamlet's father's ear, and when the man was dead, persuaded the widow, his sister-in-law, to marry him. Thus he became king...