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Heywood

[ hey-wood ]

noun

  1. John, 1497?–1580?, English dramatist and epigrammatist.
  2. Thomas, 1573?–1641, English dramatist, poet, and actor.
  3. a male given name.


Heywood

1

/ ˈheɪˌwʊd /

noun

  1. a town in NW England, in Rochdale unitary authority, Greater Manchester, near Bury. Pop: 28 024 (2001))
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Heywood

2

/ ˈheɪˌwʊd /

noun

  1. HeywoodJohn?1497?1580MEnglishTHEATRE: dramatist John. ?1497–?1580, English dramatist, noted for his comic interludes
  2. HeywoodThomas?15741641MEnglishTHEATRE: dramatist Thomas. ?1574–1641, English dramatist, noted esp for his domestic drama A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607)
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Heywood owes his optimism, in part, to the city’s leadership in the struggle to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.

“I think people are going to look at New York City as a safe bet,” Heywood said.

(Last month Gu was given a suspended death sentence for killing British businessman Neil Heywood).

“Heywood became drunk and fell in the hotel bathroom,” the Xinhua report claimed.

Unverifiable reports also stated that Heywood had “locked up” Bo Guagua, the 24-year-old son, at a “residence in England.”

“I must fight to my death to stop the craziness of Neil Heywood,” Gu said she had concluded.

Mr Heywood was found dead in a room at the Lucky Holiday Hotel in Bo's city, Chongqing, last November.

At Captain Heywood's death it passed with his other papers to his daughters.

But, Maria Heywood, gentle as she was, was not of a character long to endure the state of uncertainty under which she labored.

This person was engaged in the ordination service of Mr. J. Heywood, at Potterspury, in 1740.

But in 1612 Jaggard repeats his offence, and is indiscreet enough to add Heywood to the list of the spoiled.

Armed with Shakespeare's authority Heywood goes to Jaggard and threatens; and the publisher gives way.

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