Pulitzer-winning historian Barbara Tuchman has observed that her single most formative educational experience was exploring Harvard’s Widener Library. She captured the feelings of many library lovers when she added that her own daughter...
Elizabeth in Princeton, Texas, remembers her late father, who grew up in Snowflake, Arizona, finishing a meal with “I am sufficiently suffonsified. Anything more would be purely obnoxious to my taste. No thank you.” The mock-grand phrase means he...
flake n.— «One of the shrewd ways in which the boys made concealment was by lifting a flake of hay from the stack and making a hole beneath it. Upon letting the flake of weather-beaten thatch fall back into place, all signs of the nest...