Word: horatio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marriage Revealed. C. (Cecil) S. (Scott) Forester, 49, British-born, best-selling novelist (the Horatio Hornblower sea sagas); and Dorothy Ellen Foster; he for the second time, she for the first; in London; last...
...most articulate spokesman of the Fair Deal among the newcomers was Minnesota's brash, bustling young Senator Hubert H. (for Horatio) Humphrey Jr., 37, a hardworking, fast-talking fireball from the Midwest...
...time he came up for re-election in 1947, Humphrey hardly needed to campaign. He won by an even greater plurality than before, carried every ward in the city. Hubert Horatio Humphrey got to thinking about Washington again...
...platform makers had overlooked the determination of the Northerners, whose volatile Americans for Democratic Action had drafted a minority report. A.D.A.'s spokesman was Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr., 37, mayor of Minneapolis, who has a fast and facile tongue, political courage, and is opposing Joe Ball for Senator in November. The A.D.A. amendment commended Harry Truman for "his courageous stand on the issue of civil rights," and in somewhat obscure words urged Congress, in effect, to repeal the poll tax, set up FEPC, make lynching a federal offense, and end segregation in the armed services...
...hard to imagine better work, along traditional lines, than that of Felix Aylmer, snuffling and badgering about as Polonius; or of Basil Sydney (who once played a memorable Hamlet, in modern dress) as the corrupt, tormented usurper; or of Norman Wooland as a gentle, modest, steadfast and wise Horatio. Stanley Holloway, as the Gravedigger, is blessedly out-of-tradition;* he seemed to have learned his lines from the earth itself, not from "Shakespearean" pseudo-rustics. Terence Morgan, as Laertes, is the quintessence of an old aristocrat's fine, somewhat spoiled son. For once, Queen Gertrude is young enough...