Below is my column in The Hill on the continued calls to disqualify Republican members of Congress to prevent them from running for reelection. What is maddening is that Democratic groups and commentators are seeking to remove as many as 120 Republicans from the ballots in the name of democracy. It is like burning books…
Sneaking a teenage peak at her stepmother’s copies of Riders and Rivals opened the door to a world of glamour and romance for the author of Crudo and The Lonely City
Do you say sofa or couch? In England, they call it a sofa. We can blame Nancy Mitford for that. Her 1954 essay, The English Aristocracy, included a glossary of terms used by the upper classes. The essay was tongue-in-cheek but the British public took it very seriously indeed. Mitford classified the word sofa as U (or upper class). Ever since then, it’s been the accepted term for that piece of furniture in the UK.
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