Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before Hoffa would accept the crown, he insisted that the Teamsters run through a charade designed to show that the Teamsters believe in fair play. Even the burliest of the delegates knew that the convention stood in the grim glare of public opinion, thanks to disclosures of Teamster corruption by John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets committee. With supreme cynicism, Jimmy and his boys pretended to clean their fingernails...
...children's copies of Routledge's Every Boy's Annual. There he found a description of an intricate cipher invented by Sir Francis Bacon. Already convinced that Bacon was Shakespeare, Donnelly set out to prove that Sir Francis used this cipher in writing the plays. Through an elaborate series of manipulations involving key page numbers, word counts and "root numbers," Donnelly finally "deciphered" such statements as "Seas ill (Cecil) said that More low (Marlowe) or Shak'st spurre (Shakespeare) never writ a word of them," convinced himself that Bacon had written the plays to conceal...
...alignment is used, the big question will be whether or not McLaughlin, who did not impress against Cornell, can produce the quality of play which he demonstrated several times last year...
With all players back in the lineup, the Crimson has a better chance against an Amherst eleven, which has put up a tough resistance, though it lost to Harvard the last two years. An advantage for Amherst may be that it will play on its own field, which is smaller than the Harvard field...
This has happened on several notable occasions, usually resulting in a burst of literary creativity. It is significant that perhaps the greatest novelist, the greatest poet, and the greatest play-wright of this century, Joyce, Yeats, and Shaw all came from Dublin. This is a city located in a country with definite national and Roman Catholic values, a country in conflict with a larger culture claiming superiority, England. The Nineteenth Century Russia of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Turgenev in which the whole upper class become aware and submitted to the cultural superiority of Western Europe, especially that of France, is another...