More Cawdrey for J |
F
falcinate, to bewitch, or disfigure by inchauntment.
female, [fr] the she in mankind, or other creaturesfeminine
flagrant, burning, hot
flexible, easilie bent, pliant, or mutable
fluxible, thin...
Posted by Bestämda Flickan on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:25:00 PST |
Wikipedia’s "Marshall Field’s" Entry |
For those of you who don't understand my hatred of Macy's, I swiped the below from Wikipedia for your edification:
Early Years
Marshall Field's State Street store interior around 1910.
Marshall Fi...
Posted by Bestämda Flickan on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:52:00 PST |
Quick break from cleaning... |
I hate cleaning. But not as much as I hate Macy's! In this morning's Sun-Times, there was an article about how Macy's is trying to improve sales here in Chicago. A spokesman said "We...
Posted by Bestämda Flickan on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:27:00 PST |
The Canon...and a little Cawdrey to boot |
Having to read Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Toms' Cabin for the second time within a year, and not having been particularly fond of it on the first read-through, I started thinking about the idea of ...
Posted by Bestämda Flickan on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:08:00 PST |
Memory |
Started another fascinating article in National Geographic this morning (shhhhh! I'm supposed to be re-reading Uncle Tom's Cabin and also trying to put together some ideas for my final paper...t...
Posted by Bestämda Flickan on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:17:00 PST |
Its a beginning... |
The nineteenth-century in America, being so preoccupied with the reformation of society at all its various levels, may well be credited with devising the concept, if not the actual sound bite, of "new...
Posted by Bestämda Flickan on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:29:00 PST |
Time for Crying |
It's really pathetic when you don't even have enough time in your schedule to lock yourself in the bathroom for 30 minutes to have a good cry and have to resort to multi-tasking and do it while you're...
Posted by Bestämda Flickan on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:59:00 PST |
Matthew Arnold |
In looking up some information on John Stuart Mill this morning (in relation to the paper I have due on Tuesday), I stumbled across some great stuff from Matthew Arnold:
"This creative power works wit...
Posted by Bestämda Flickan on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:43:00 PST |
As promised... |
"The Spider and the Fly"
*based on the poem by Mary Howitt*
"Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly."'Tis the prettiest little parlour that you ever did spy;The way into my parlour...
Posted by Bestämda Flickan on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:48:00 PST |
"Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?" |
"Paris smiled, for an hour or two, in the year 1801, when, amidst Napoleon'smighty projects for remodelling the religion and government of his empire,the ironical satirist, Sylvain Marechal, thrust in...
Posted by Bestämda Flickan on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:14:00 PST |
