Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I was "up" at Oxford, shortly after Evelyn "Waw's" day, there was a rhyme (I don't know where it came from...
...that you have illustrated your entrancing and masterful article on Olivier's Hamlet with the Ashbourne portrait which hangs in the Folger Shakespeare Library. This has lately been revealed by X-ray and infra-red pictures to be a portrait of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford . . . The Oxford crest on the signet ring is disclosed, and also, in the upper corner, Lady Oxford's coat of arms. A commoner's collar has been painted over the nobleman's ruff, and the forehead raised to the point of baldness...
Furthermore, research . . . and studies now being made of the plays and poems prove beyond doubt that the true author of these . . . was the 17th Earl of Oxford, using the pseudonym, "William Shakespeare." His noblest drama, Hamlet, was largely autobiographical...
...Professional rousers are not always helpful. A gloomy Oxford "scout" (college servant) used to wake his young gentlemen with the invariable remark: "Seven-thirty, sir, and another 'orrible morning...
...city's most revolutionary modern building. It is also the fulfillment of an old ambition for Owner John J. Emery, who inherited a prosperous 100-year-old business (hotels and other real estate) and got his ambitious ideas on art and architecture at Groton, Harvard and Oxford...