White-livered, like lily-livered, can mean cowardly or timid. Cree, whose grandmother is from Mississippi, heard a different Southern folk meaning: a person with a white liver, or white spots on the liver, was thought to have an insatiable sexual...
Someone should write a love letter to a new book called Letters of Note. It’s a splendid collection of all kinds of correspondence through the ages: Elvis Presley fans writing to the president, children making suggestions to famous cartoonists, a...