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Hortatory Names

Patience, Hope, and Charity are pretty ambitious things to name your children. But what about Hate-evil, Be-courteous, or Search-the-scriptures? Or Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith? Puritan parents sometimes gave their kids so as to encourage those...

showmance

showmance  n.— «Playing Doody (“Those Magic Changes”) and Frenchy, the “Beauty School Dropout,” the two hit it off right away. They were both hard-working, both passionate about the theater, both committed...

smalls

smalls  n.— «Although a cliché, it has long been an article of faith among the nation’s “gentleman” gangsters that Smalls single-handedly destroyed an unwritten code with his betrayal. Perhaps unsurprisingly...

song sharking

song sharking  n.— «The personals are full of them; want ads promising easy fame and fortune for people with undiscovered talent. Music industry neophytes show up, audition, and receive every promise under the sun, if they put up a little...

faithbooking

faithbooking  n.— «An award-winning journalist and avid scrapbooker based in New Jersey, Sheridan said the writing is just as important as the pictures in “faithbooking,” as spiritual scrapbooking is sometimes called.» —“Local author:...

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