Word: overboard
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...Detroit physician named Orville Owen went so overboard on his own cipher theory that he declared Bacon was not only Shakespeare but also such authors as Marlowe, Edmund Spenser and Robert Burton. Another Baconian found his inspiration in the fact that both Bacon and Shakespeare used the word honorificabili-tudinitatibus. He divided the word into two parts, spelled the first backward (BACIFIRONOH), declared this to be an anagram for FR BACONO. From the rest of the letters, he got HI LUDI TUITI NATI SIBI, which taken all together spelled "These Plays, produced by Francis Bacon, guarded for themselves...
...been on the cruise of the Pak Tang, this prospect, while gratifying, was almost unnecessary. "I'm satisfied just being here," said ex-Colonel Yui Teh Hsiu, once the commander of a Nationalist regiment. "We agreed among ourselves that if we failed we would all jump overboard...
...that the resolutions were not to be interpreted as a personal victory for Beck. Growled Jimmy Hoffa, Teamster boss in the Central States: "I don't think anybody won a victory." If Dave Beck had been the only top Teamster in trouble, the others might have dumped him overboard. But with Central Conference Chairman Hoffa facing federal charges of conspiracy and bribery and with Western Conference Chairman Frank Brewster thickly splashed with scandal, the Teamsters decided to put up a united front-even if it was only a front...
Died. Freeman Wills Crofts, 77, British railroad engineer who first tinkered, during a 1919 illness, with a detective novel (The Cask) that eventually sold 100,000 copies, turned to full-time writing in 1929 and produced roughly a book a year thereafter (Inspector French's Greatest Case; Man Overboard), most featuring Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard; in Worthing, England...
...minded George D. (for David) Aiken, 64, was something of a "Modern Republican" in the U.S. Senate before Dwight D. (for David) Eisenhower made bird colonel. Last week Aiken applauded the politics represented by the President's favorite ''Modern Republican" term, but favored throwing the term overboard. "It is misleading and is badly misused," Aiken told the Women's National Republican Club in Manhattan. "It irritates a lot of good people...