The word amethyst looks mysterious, but it’s really a sober-minded term from ancient Greece. Greek amethystos literally means “not intoxicating,” from a- meaning “not” and methys, meaning “drunk,” a relative of English mead. The Greeks believed the...
Lindy from Bozeman, Montana, grew up hearing her father call cocktail time at the family’s summer cabins horning hour, a kind of private happy hour for the drinkers on a beach where some neighbors abstained. The phrase hasn’t turned up in the...
