A
WORD OR TWO
It has been a few weeks since the last edition came out, and
for that I sincerely apologize. There has been much occupying
my time, and I regret that my passion has had to take a backseat
to it all. I bring you more of the same, and thankfully without
all the holiday connections. Happy reading!
QUOTES
OF THE WEEK
“Short
is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.”
—Euripides
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices
have very few virtues.”
—Abraham Lincoln
THIS
WEEK IN HISTORY
JANUARY
31, 1940: Sixty-five year old Ida May Fuller becomes the
first recipient of a social security check, in the amount
of $22.54 (check number 00-000-001). She had paid into the
social security system for three years, and before she passed
away some 35 years later, she was receiving regular payments
totaling nearly $22,000. She later observed: “It wasn't
that I expected anything, mind you, but I knew I'd been paying
for something called Social Security and I wanted to ask the
people in [my home town] about it.” Source: www.ssa.gov.
FEBRUARY 5, 1631: Roger Williams, an important religious
leader in colonial America, spent four years in the Massachusetts
Bay colony before inflaming the Puritan oligarchy with his
outspoken and colorful attacks on their stringent doctrines
regarding religious dissension. Williams was banished from
the colony and made his way south, where he established a
settlement at the junction of two rivers near Narragansett
Bay, located in present-day Rhode Island. He declared the
settlement open to all those seeking freedom from the church’s
involvement in civil affairs, thus attracting many dissatisfied
Puritans. Taking the success of the settlement as a sign from
God, Williams named the community “Providence.”
Source: www.historychannel.com.
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WORDS
Memorize these by week's end and you shall
quickly develop an enviable lexicon.
| apocryphal
(a-POK-ri-ful) adj. |
| 1. |
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of
doubtful authenticity |
| 2. |
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spurious;
false |
| (He
lays claim to this parcel of land with an apocryphal
deed) |
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celerity (se-LER-i-tee) noun |
| 1. |
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speed
or rapidity of motion |
| (1.
She speaks with great celerity. 2. The
army moved toward its target with a celerity
previously unimaginable.) |
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munificent (myoo-NIF-i-cent) adjective |
| 1. |
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liberal in giving or bestowing |
| 2. |
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characterized by great generosity |
| (1.
Bill Gates is perhaps the most munificent
individual in the world's history, having contributed
billions of his own money to charities worldwide.
2 as a noun. She relied on the munificence
of her father when she asked for a new pony)
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