Word: shakespearean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Education's Thorndike. The record of the Thorndike family confirms his own emphasis on the importance of heredity. His late brother Ashley was one of the foremost U. S. Shakespearean scholars. Another brother, Lynn, is an authority on medieval history, his sister (now retired) was a brilliant high-school teacher. Of his four children, three are college teachers and the fourth an undergraduate, all unusual scholars...
Funniest scenes: Actor Howard shocking a stuffy breakfast group with a Shakespearean outburst on an improperly cooked kipper; Comic Blore trying to signal his master by frantic birdcalls, over determined competition from a nearby aviary...
Died. Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, 84. British actor famed for his noble Shakespearean roles, which he played from 1874 until he retired from the professional stage 21 years ago; in St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, England. The greatest of his 130-odd parts was that of Hamlet, whom he thought ''not mad." merely "waxed desperate with imagination...
...concerned the bitter, prolonged strife of industry and labor. He and Mediator Charles P. Taft, who last week sailed for Europe leaving the steel strike to stew in its own juice, had agreed that the public feeling toward both parties to the dispute could be summed up in one Shakespearean phrase, "A plague o' both your houses." Was this double-damnation his own feeling? The President declined to affirm or deny. It was what he thought the public thought. Since good politicians model their opinions after the public's, it was fair to deduce that Franklin Roosevelt...
...citations were ineffective, the Court of Appeals decided, and the Shakespearean sentiments atavistic. Wrote Judge Irving G. Hubbs: "A wife is no longer the property of her husband in the eyes of the law, and by the general acceptance of society. . . . Not being a common law contract the [marriage] relation may be regulated . . . without violating the provision of the Federal or State Constitutions which forbids the taking of life, liberty or property without due process...