Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explanation had more to do with business than show. Toronto's O'Keefe Brewing Co.. having just completed a $12 million civic center for the performing arts, was willing to offer a sizable (exact amount undisclosed) slice of Cana dian bacon to get the right show for the center's dedication. Camelot, the 1960 reunion of My Fair Lady's family (Librettist Alan Jay Lerner, Composer Frederick Loewe, Director Moss Hart, Star Julie Andrews), was the obvious choice...
...posters for which he wrote flaming exhortations in prose and poetry. He wrote a brash poem inviting the Eiffel Tower to leave its decadent city and return with him to Moscow. He visited the U.S. in 1925 and dutifully reported that it was a guardian of bigotry, cents and bacon " But as time went on, he found more and more to irritate him at home, saw with growing disgust the commissars making the rules for poets...
...Europe to avoid the noise." . . . Winging into Paris' Orly Airport, Boston Matron Rose Kennedy, 70. was forthwith thrust into a quarter-hour TV interview, proved as nimble as Son Jack in verbal fencing-although one listener described her French as "not so fractured as it sounded fried in bacon grease." A partial translation of the session: Q.: And your son, Madame, does he know well the problems of our country? A.: Admirably. Q.: Consequently, if some day he enters the White House, we will have a friend in him? A.: Why are you using "if?" Q.: What...
...first to set the Bacon thesis really sizzling was an Ohio-born schoolteacher named Delia Bacon, no kin. Bent on digging up the Bard, she invaded Holy Trinity Church, lantern in hand, one night in 1856, only to be appalled by the question of whether she should dig up Raleigh or Bacon instead. Unhinged by this quandary, she died hopelessly insane three years later. In 1888 Ignatius Donnelly, a onetime Congressman from Minnesota, uncorked the following numbers game: on page 53 of the histories in the first Folio he found the word Bacon ("I have a gammon of Bacon"), which...
Second-Best Bed. "Shakespeare led a life of allegory," wrote Keats. "His works are the comments on it." The allegory is gap-filled, encouraging the strange game of pseudoscholarship designed to show that Shakespeare did not really write the plays, that he was a front man for Sir Francis Bacon or Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford,* or Christopher Marlowe or Sir Walter Raleigh or Queen Elizabeth or even the Bard's wife, Anne Hathaway. Amateur cryptographers have thought they found hidden codes in Shakespeare's writing, pointing to the true authors...