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Sherwood

[ shur-wood ]

noun

  1. Robert Em·met [em, -it], 1896–1955, U.S. dramatist.
  2. a town in central Arkansas.
  3. a male given name.


Sherwood

/ ˈʃɜːˌwʊd /

noun

  1. SherwoodRobert Emmet18961955MUSTHEATRE: dramatist Robert Emmet. 1896–1955, US dramatist. His plays include The Petrified Forest (1935), Idiot's Delight (1936), and There shall be no Night (1940)


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Little by little, in his own way, Sherwood caught on in television.

The Elliott camp argues, however, that he still might have decided to stay, depending on what Sherwood had to say.

“The double whammy of those two set me on a course of thinking about issues I had never done before,” Sherwood told the Times.

Will Sherwood, like Zucker, end up being widely perceived as failing upward?

When Ben Sherwood, the new head of Disney/ABC TV Group, joined the network as its news chief in 2010, much cattiness ensued.

Typical slam: “It was a common bond among my class at Harvard, hating Ben Sherwood.”

Sherwood often wavers between him and Kullak, and Deppe would like to teach Sherwood if he could, simply out of interest for him.

To show you that it is not alone my judgment of Deppe—four of Kullak's best pupils, including Sherwood!

The door was pushed open; a crowd of girls giggled in; Tessa bowed to Mary Sherwood and moved 63 aside.

Mrs. Sherwood told me yesterday that she hoped to have Nan Gerard back here for good, and Mary looked as if it were all settled.

Mary Sherwood says that telling you things is like throwing things into the sea; nobody ever finds them.

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