Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Caddy. Sam Snead was born and raised in Ashwood, a hamlet near the mountain resort of Hot Springs, Va. and its famed golf hotel, the Homestead. The five Snead brothers begged broken-shafted clubs from the Homestead caddy master, and replaced their splintered wooden shafts with whittled hickory sticks or old buggy-whip handles. Sometimes they carved an entire driver from a hickory sapling with a knotty root...
...backing of canny State Chairman John M. Bailey, and in a January poll, he ran ahead of his closest competitor, ex-Congressman Abraham A. Ribicoff. But while Bowles pondered, the politicians lost patience; while he played Hamlet, Ribicoff played Romeo, wooed and won party support. Even Bailey switched. At a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Hartford, Ribicoff got a bigger hand for standing up and bowing than Bowles got for making a speech...
...been idle. I now pretend to know about 60% of what there is to know, which is roughly true." He worked on his books, produced and directed 28 plays in a repertory group and took to the stage himself. An Evening Standard critic saw him in a production of Hamlet, wrote: "Mr. Kenneth Tynan, who did the First Player last night, would not get a chance in a village hall unless he were related to the vicar. His performance was quite dreadful." Tynan, outraged at the review, wrote such a lively letter to the Standard ("My performance in Hamlet...
...Jolly Farmer. For eight months before his death, Wilson had off & on dealings with Tom Holland, a 6 ft., 200 lb. farmer from Beryl, a hamlet 150 miles to the northwest. Holland, who is as jovial as Wilson was bellicose, came to Kanab in a house trailer, with some vague agreement to work on Wilson's claims. The partners fought, made up, fought again. One day last week Holland and Wilson were observed in town, apparently in a rare mood of good fellowship. They set off to inspect new claims, returned that night, and made plans to meet...
...arranged, with President Magsaysay's approval, through a Manila newspaper columnist named Benigno Aquino. Early one morning last week, troops of the Philippine first military area thought they had Taruc cornered north of Manila. Under Colonel Manuel Cabal, the troops were closing in on Barrio San Pablo, a hamlet near the foot of Mount Arayat (3,378 ft.), where Taruc was known to be hiding. Colonel Cabal was convinced that the rebel leader would soon be captured, dead or alive, but as the leading troops reached the village, a lieutenant intervened. He distracted the men away from a house...