Word: vere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...significant . . . 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...
...interested in a footnote [TIME, May 10] about one of the undergraduate activities of the late William Horace de Vere Cole (see cut), brother-in-law of former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. An English friend of mine . . . told me of a couple of other exploits carried out by Cole while still an undergraduate at Cambridge...
...Though far from the best hoax in university history. Cantabrigians would rank higher the fictitious Sultan of Zanzibar (the late William Horace de Vere Cole, brother-in-law of former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain), who, in 1910, bamboozled the Vice Chancellor into entertaining him at tea. The record at Oxford appears to belong to "George Psalmanazar" (real name unknown), who palmed himself off, in 1704, as an authority on the language of Formosa, published a fake Formosan geography and history, taught at Oxford for six months, was not exposed until four years later...
...Conference that it adopt rules of procedure requiring a two-thirds' majority for any action. The small nations opened the meeting with protests that such a rule would reduce to absurdity the already limited powers of the conference. Australia's stocky, hard-hitting Foreign Minister Herbert Vere Evatt (rhymes with rev it) was spokesman for the small nations as he had been at San Francisco; he went to bat for a simple majority rather than a two-thirds' majority rule. He was bitterly seconded by Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, chairman of the Rules Committee...
Spain was a test issue before the United Nations Security Council. Was Francisco Franco's regime a potential threat to world peace? And, if so-as Australia's stubborn, logical Herbert Vere Evatt put it last week: what are we going to do about...