Word: bard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jackdaws (named after the mimic bird) are equally graphic dossiers on Columbus' discovery of America and London's 17th century plague and fire. Soon to be published: more kits on the Magna Carta, the Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the boy Shakespeare (timed to coincide with the bard's 400th anniversary...
...conjecture to the far limits of common sense. Like others, too, he is an image-counter and an incorrigible drawer of conclusions about the man's life from the man's works. Because Shakespeare refers to bowling 19 times in his plays, Rowse is sure that the bard must have loved bowling. Because Shakespeare puts in Sir John Falstaffs mouth the famous speech slighting honor ("Who hath it? He that died of a Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No . . . I'll have none of it then!"), Rowse writes: "I think we may conclude that Shakespeare, sensible...
STRATFORD-ON-AVON--"More and more light," sagely noted Shakespeare, commenting on the new CRIMSON telephone book. "It tell a lie--why, spit in my face, call me horse," the poet continued. Encouraged by the Bard's response, the CRIMSON bravely offers a Free Subscription to the first person to spot all 208 errors in the book. The new expanded edition is on sale now in all House dining halls and at the CRIMSON Building, 14 Plympton St. $1, cash...
...Dorothy Thompson was at the beginning of her later fame, and at the bitter end of her marriage to Josef Bard, a sponging Hungarian cad whom she had mistaken for a genius. Despite the presence of a former Prime Minister of Hungary, the "momentous guest" was a 42-year-old American novelist-Sinclair Lewis. After dinner, the guest wasted no time, cornered his hostess and asked her to marry him (he neglected to mention that he was already married). Replied Dorothy: "I don't even know you, Mr. Lewis...
...China, he got a quick and bitter taste of the nation's new mood. No fewer than five Chinese Communist delegations-including poets, pingpong players and trade officials-were getting the welcome treatment from Pakistani officials. Gleefully, the Pakistan press trumpeted the words of one visiting Chinese bard who wrote: "You are on the western coast of the sea and we are on the east. The tidal waves of the ocean roar, and intermingled, we can hear the sound of our heartbeat...