Word: stratford-on-avon
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...mayor accepted the honorary presidency of the International Shakespeare Association. Inc., and allowed his name to be used in a drive for funds. Disillusionment came when he found that protectorate was not the fund which is being collected for a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, already supplied with an honorary president in Elihu Root, but rather the brain-child of Dr. W. E. Dentinger, osteopath and musico-therapeutist, who is planning a Broadway Shakespeare shrine. Mayor Walker instantly withdrew his name...
...memory of Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, only lineal descendant of John Harvard to graduate from Harvard College, will be put in place this summer according to the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin. Three identical bronze tablets will be unveiled at the John Harvard house at Stratford-on-Avon, England, Lionel Hall, and the D. U. Clubhouse, Cambridge...
...beds before dawn, panic-stricken by sounds of falling crockery and chimney pots. Through the lanes of Duddleston fled a yokel in a nightshirt screaming, "The end of the world has come!" In Hereford, the town clock struck thrice though it was really five o'clock. At Stratford-on-Avon, U. S. tourists clutched their passports and pocketbooks; the "sure and firm set earth" was trembling violently with the roar of an express train. It was Britain's third temblor in a month, the severest in 30 years, part of a series indicating that for the first time...
...Lawrence is at present in Stratford-on-Avon. He will give a middle group course next year, probably on the history of the Elizabethan stage...
...ability, and now proceeds to lay down the laws of sound drama according to what "Shakespeare and I" think they ought to be, as expressed in the works of the co-equal stars. "For some years a conviction has been coming over me," says Mr. Shaw, "that Stratford-on-Avon is my birthplace." This is the greatest tribute he could pay to Shakespeare...