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Florists, Rioters, and Library Heroes
Leave a commentAugust 5, 2018 by libroshombre
LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg Hill, 479-4344 July 27, 2018 This week I tried not to dwell on the …
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Blackwing 602, Bugs Bunny, and Privacy
Leave a commentAugust 5, 2018 by libroshombre
What do Leonard Bernstein, John Steinbeck, Quincy Jones, E.B. White, Eugene O’Neill, Archibald MacLeish, Loony Tunes animator Chuck Jones, and …
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Walruses, Turtles, and Alice B. Toklas
Leave a commentJune 15, 2018 by libroshombre
“The time has come,’ the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — …
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Breviloquence, Tosspots, and Uberty
Leave a commentJune 15, 2018 by libroshombre
My parents were children of the Great Depression, and, consequently, so was the vocabulary I inherited, complete with “mazuma” …
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Biographies, Wegotisms, and Emuscation
Leave a commentJune 7, 2018 by libroshombre
Forever curious about how people thought and acted long ago, I’m a fiend for biographies, even though, as Abraham …
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Stinkers, Dictators, and Egg Spoons
Leave a commentMay 14, 2018 by libroshombre
People appearing to be real stinkers might simply be under the sway of their microbes. After all, BBC.com’s James …
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Cryptogamists, Eructers, and Wykyn de Worde
Leave a commentMay 14, 2018 by libroshombre
As Welsh poet George Herbert rightly noted in the 1600s, “Good words are worth much, and cost little,” but sometimes …
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Bond, Bananas, and Humperdink Fangboner
Leave a commentMarch 23, 2018 by libroshombre
Nineteenth century poet and reformer Helen Hunt Jackson once wrote, “Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each …
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Cats, Catalogs, Clocks, and Ctesibius
Leave a commentMarch 23, 2018 by libroshombre
Several cats in my life have convinced me that Sigmund Freud was full of hooey when he said, “Time spent …
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Muscle-wire, Aerogel, and the Library of Water
Leave a commentMarch 22, 2018 by libroshombre
“Mahabharata;” at 90,000 verses, is the “single longest poem in the world.” That’s from one of several library books that …
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