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May 12, 2025 by libroshombre
Reading my old copy of “Dictionary of American Slang” (DAS), compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Flexner in 1960, …
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Category: book banning, books, English language, grammar, language, languages, libraries, slang
| Tags: Charles Dickens, Dictionary of American Slang, English, language, linguistics, Naval Academy library, reduplications, rompe l’oeil, strong verbs
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February 5, 2025 by libroshombre
Davy Crockett and Jimmy Hoffa both had plenty of attitude. As Hoffa put it, “I may have my faults, …
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Category: book banning, book burning, book clubs, reading, reading brain, reading well
| Tags: 10 cent beer night, Bartolome de las Casas, books, Davy Crockett, Inquisition, Nuno Guzman, Popeye, reading, Spanish Inquisition, texas rangers
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December 9, 2023 by libroshombre
Once a young soccer star named Jimmy from Manchester, England played on a scholarship for UC Santa Barbara. His …
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Category: blind, book banning, Christmas, games, holidays, hymns, librarians, libraries, music, religion
| Tags: Alaska Attorney General, Charles Wesley, Chetham Library, dwile flonking, enthusiasm, Fanny Crosby, ferret-legging, fox-tossing, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, John Rylands Library, kerykes, Manchester United, Yazidis
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July 10, 2023 by libroshombre
There’s been some interesting overlapping on my radar that involve lynching, black holes, horny toads, and the frightening rise …
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Category: book banning, books, libraries, race, races, racism, reptiles
| Tags: atonement, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, horned lizards, horny toads, Legislative Reference Library, NoveList, Sherman Texas
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May 3, 2023 by libroshombre
There’s been some interesting overlapping on my radar that involve lynching, black holes, horny toads, and the frightening rise …
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Category: animals, Black history, book banning, books, censorship, crime, libraries and librarians, library school, public libraries, school librarians, school libraries
| Tags: George Dawson, horned lizards, horny toads, Legislative Reference Library, lynching
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April 18, 2023 by libroshombre
There’s been some interesting overlapping on my radar that involve lynching, black holes, horny toads, and the frightening rise in …
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Category: animals, banned books, book banning, books, libraries, library school, pubic libraries, race, racism
| Tags: Chaarles Waddell Chesnutt, George Dawson, horned lizards, horny toads, Legislative Reference Library, lynching, NoveList, remorse, Sherman Texas
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April 23, 2022 by libroshombre
In “A History of Reading,” Alberto Manguel wrote, “At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of …
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Category: Bible, book banning, censorship, e-reader, etymology, language, reading, word origins, words, writers, writing
| Tags: Archie Goodwin, Babar, Billy Budd, Billy Budd KGB, Dav Pilkey, Dr. Seuss, J. Edgar Hoover, Nero Wolfe, Rex Stout, ted geisel
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March 12, 2022 by libroshombre
Carl Sagan is certainly missed; apart from his glowing cosmological credentials and general brilliance, he was insightful while maintaining his …
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Category: book banning, books, comics, education, libraries, public libraries, reading, reading brain, school librarians, school libraries
| Tags: Alaska Library Association, Carl Sagan, Fred Laswell, lianhuanhua, Lu Xun, New English Canaan, Puritans, Snuffy Smith, Thomas Morton, Ukraine
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January 21, 2021 by libroshombre
LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg hill, 479-4344 January 21m 2021 Confucius taught that “Without knowing the force of words, it …
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Category: banned books, book banning, book burning, brain, censorship, happiness, health, words
| Tags: bookmarks, Dark Triad, facemasks, masking, masks, Samuel Pepys, Thomas Hobbes
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May 16, 2020 by libroshombre
“Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self-strangulation,” according to life-style philosopher Andrew J. Bernstein. “They not …
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Category: book banning, books, health, hygiene, intellectual freedom, stress, Uncategorized
| Tags: Donald Orth, earwax, Onalaska, public restrooms, Sourdough Library
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