Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm in Conway, Mass. FORTUNE employs him on its editorial staff. He has lived much in Europe, is a great friend of Poet Stephen Vincent Benét (John Brown's Body), and Ernest Hemingway. But, vigorous, busy, disciplined, he does not fit the expatriate scene. Other books: The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, The Pot of Earth...
...seven, upon his mother's second marriage, Baudelaire found himself a mystical Hamlet turned out into the harsh reality of a cruel school life. When he became of age he abandoned the ambitions of his family and became dandy living a life before a mirror with a mistress Americans would describe as a "yella girl." From then until his death the poet carried on a long and weary struggle with debt, disease, wine, opium, and impotence. Through it all he kept up his unending search for the "Ideal Beauty". His life was a duel between Catholicism and Paganism, between flesh...
...fourth time to Rose Marie, very much a bit of charming tinkle and fluff (TIME, Nov. 18). Later Their Majesties went to two or three plays without music. It was not until last week, however, that King George turned, as one eventually does, to Shakespeare and to Hamlet. It was the Bard's birthday (April 23), and Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson was opening an all-star Hamlet, the proceeds to go to theatrical charities...
Again like most of the subjects by whom he is so well beloved, His Majesty did not hasten with any anxious eagerness to Hamlet. Indeed, he did not go at all. But graciously the King-Emperor set May 19 as the date for a "Command Performance" of Hamlet, announced that Their Majesties will attend "if possible...
Chambers. Mr. Barnes may be well defined by saying that he is the best expression of Chamber Spirit. As such he has been thoroughly publicized?wherein lies the great virtue and petty vice of Chambers. Today there is scarcely a hamlet without its Chamber and the U.S. Chamber has an ad-packed magazine called Nation's Business, the only real success in its field. The great virtue of the thousand and one Chambers is that they give voice to an otherwise dumb world of Business. That this voice is sometimes vapid is a peccadillo which sophisticates magnify...