From an unpublished WPA manuscript on American cookery
WPA-era soda-luncheonette slang included 14 1/2 (a beautiful girl, a little on the plump side) and nervous pudding (gelatin dessert).
WPA-era soda-luncheonette slang included 14 1/2 (a beautiful girl, a little on the plump side) and nervous pudding (gelatin dessert).
I didn’t believe anyone could love the OED the way I love the OED, but I was wrong — and seriously small-time.
Until now scholars have shielded readers from Franz Kafka’s stash of explicit porn, but did anyone really believe he was a saint?
“In 2008, the world will be blessed,” the new McCain campaign ad begins. “They will call him The One.” “I love this!” said a friend and Obama supporter who forwarded it to me in email last Thursday. Since then the reaction online, even from some conservatives, has been largely amused befuddlement. But the ad isn’t targeted to you or me. . . .
At NPR, the ever-delightful Gwenda Bond revisits Anne of Green Gables for the novel’s 100th anniversary. (See also Steph’s take.)