The Biltmore Hotel in New York City threw out newlyweds F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre, following their wedding on April 3, 1920.
The management asked them to leave because of their unseemly behavior.
In a letter written in December 1817 to his brothers George and Thomas, poet John Keats first referred to “negative capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without irritable reaching after fact and reason.” Keats considered this quality essential to a “Man of Achievement especially in literature.”
Judas received thirty pieces of silver for betraying Christ. In Matthew’s Gospel, Judas throws away the money and hangs himself after the betrayal.
The books of the Pentateuch are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Named from Greek penta (five) and teuchos (book), tradition assigned their authorship to Moses.
In Charles Dickens’s 1847-48 novel of that name, Dombey and Son was a shipping firm.
Eighteenth-century political philosopher Edmund Burke is credited with the term the “fourth estate”. Burke is supposed to have said, “Yonder [in the Reporters’ Gallery] sits the fourth estate, more important than them all.” The three other estates were the Lords Spiritual (clergy), the Lords Temporal (knights and barons), and the Commons.
Only Good Deeds goes with Everyman to face Judgment. In the 1495 morality play, Everyman is deserted by Beauty, Strength, Discretion, and Five Wits.