Sherman
n.— «Among all possible candidates for the Democratic nomination next year, is either Barack or Hillary the best qualified—or the most likely to win the general election? My answer is no. As long as Al Gore declines to take a Sherman, as long as he won’t lock the door against all possibility of running again, I believe he’s the best horse we’ve got.» —“I Have a Dream: Let’s Re-Elect Al Gore” by James Heffernan The Huffington Post May 21, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Paul in Batavia, New York, recommends The Door-to-Door Bookstore (Bookshop|Amazon), a novel by Carston Henn, translated from German by Melody Shaw, which includes a wonderful description of a book with a perfect final paragraph that you nevertheless...
Our conversation about words that are simply fun to say (such as oligopoly, or “domination of a market by just a few producers”) reminded a listener in Jackson, Tennessee, of a scene from a 1955 movie The Glass Slipper. A woman says she delights in...