Word: thirteenth
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Avatar, Boston's iconoclastic underground newsppaer, is back in court. A month ago the eleventh issue of Avatar was declared obscene in Boston Municipal Court. Because Cambridge and Boston newsstands refused to sell Avatar, even before the obscenity decision, Avatar had to sell its twelfth and thirteenth issues--deliberate parodies of "obscenity"--primarily through street vendors. Boston and Cambridge authorities responded to the hippy news-boys with harrassment, arrests and, one day last week, a flying raid on Avatar's Boston office...
...Merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylock the Iewe towards the sayd Merchant. . . ." The fact is that Shakespeare, and Elizabethan Londoners generally, could have had little if any first-hand knowledge of Jews, since Jews had been banished from England at the end of the thirteenth century and were not readmitted until the middle of the seventeenth...
STRATFORD, Conn.--The Midsummer Night's Dream with which the American Shakespeare Festival has opened its thirteenth season is hardly a dream of a production. But then it is also far from being a midsummer nightmare--just a middlingly pleasant couple of hours...
...thirteenth year of the reign of Nathan and in the third of the reign of Kingman a slew of winged seraphim spitting hellfire descended unto Jonathan, son of Henry, and he was sore afraid. "Lo," said one of the seraphim as with twain he did cover his eyes, and with twain he did cover his ears and with twain he did cover his mouth, making of consequence his "Lo" wondrously muffled...
Lamont was a director of Texas Gulf Sulphur, and all the other defendants were either directors, officers, or employers of the company. The thirteenth man, Thomas P. O'Nell, the company's former accountant, did not file an answer to the suit and was not mentioned in Judge Bonsal's decision...