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Arden

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Ar·den  (ärdn)
An unincorporated city of north-central California, a residential suburb of Sacramento. Population: 96,000.
Arden, Elizabeth 1884?-1966.
Canadian-born American businesswoman whose original beauty salon, founded in 1910, grew into an international cosmetics corporation.
Arden, Forest of
A wooded area, formerly very extensive, of central England west of Stratford-upon-Avon. It provided the setting for Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Arden [ˈɑːdən]
n
(Placename) Forest of. a region of N Warwickshire, part of a former forest: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It
Arden2
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(Biographies / Arden, John (1930 M, British, THEATRE: dramatist, FILMS AND TV: producer, WRITING: novelist) John. born 1930, British dramatist and novelist. His plays include Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) and The Workhouse Donkey (1963); novels include Silence Among the Weapons (1982): he often works in collaboration with his wife Margaretta D'Arcy


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"* How Shakespeare fared in this new work we do not know, but we may fancy him when work was done wandering along the pretty country lanes or losing himself in the forest of Arden, which lay not far from his home, "the poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling," and singing to himself:
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
In the mansion that he built at Arden, there were a hundred telephones, sixty of them linked to the long-distance lines.
The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N. View in context
He sat, the guest of honor, at an Arden Club banquet, with men of note whom he had heard about and read about all his life; and they told him how, when they had read "The Ring of Bells" in the TRANSCONTINENTAL, and "The Peri and the Pearl" in THE HORNET, they had immediately picked him for a winner.
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