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  • Schmidt's father, Dr. David Schmidt, said he didn't share Ms. Whetstone's anger, and believed the Marine Corps did its best to keep the family informed.

    How the Death Notification Caused More Pain on the Home Front Michael M. Phillips 2011

  • I have looked at Miss Whetstone's Web site where she announces that the reason she is running for Congress is to provide a fresh face and new leadership.

    CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2004 2004

  • Painter, whose version of the same story in his _Palace of Pleasure_ cannot be shown to have been used much, if at all, by the dramatist, seems nevertheless to have been known to him; and we hardly need evidence that Shakespeare must have kept a watchful eye on similar collections of stories, such as Whetstone's, Riche's, and

    The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson

  • Whetstone's _Rock of Regard_ contains no hint that it is translated, and

    Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos

  • Whetstone's Heptameron, in 1582, mentions "The comedians of Ravenna, who are not _tied to any written device_."

    A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent

  • From the brief list of other tragedies preserved from this period of development, and including such plays as _Tancred and Gismunda_ (1568) and Whetstone's _Promos and Cassandra_ (printed 1578) -- the latter chiefly interesting on account of the criticism of contemporary drama contained in its Dedication -- we select _Damon and Pythias_ (before 1567) by Richard Edwards as an example of native tragedy influenced but not subjugated by classical models.

    The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

  • Cassandra_, founded on Cinthio's novel, by one George Whetstone, and from Whetstone's prose rendering of the story in his book _The

    William Shakespeare John Masefield 1922

  • Whetstone's _Promos and Cassandra_; and there was probably an intermediate drama.

    Montaigne and Shakspere 1894

  • In the comic parts of Whetstone's drama there is all the grossness of Measure for Measure, without any thing that the utmost courtesy of language can call wit or humour.

    Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

  • Howser halted the man, who was riding on a mule on the road; had an altercation with Mr. Whetstone; Howser, Whetstone's son-in-law, shot him while he was going to town.

    Report on the Condition of the South Carl Schurz 1867

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