BRONX WOMAN INDICTED FOR STABBING HER TWO YOUNG CHILDREN Defendant Used Razor to Slash Their Necks; Abandoned Wounded Children On Street Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx woman has been indicted in the stabbings of […]
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (1900) Zelda Sayre was an aspiring writer when she married F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920. A glamorous and witty couple, they lived an extravagant life in New York City that F. Scott unsuccessfully attempted to support with his writing. They eventually moved to Europe,where they became part of a celebrated circle of American expatriates known as the Lost Generation. After 1930, Zelda was intermittently confined to sanatoriums for schizophrenia but still managed to publish short stories and what novel? More…
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman,who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
overwrought Definition: (adjective) Deeply agitated especially from emotion. Synonyms: distraught Usage: Now that the horror of absolute solitude was uponthem, her overwrought nerves gave way, and thereaction came. Discuss.
By Rich Mancuso/ Sports Editor Robinson Cano had a career night Tuesday at Citi Field. Three home runs put Cano in the record books and now the oldest second baseman at 36-years of age to do that. An epic night […]
By Rich Mancuso/ Sports Editor There is no doubt that boxing is a brutal sport. Fighters take a risk each and every time they lace up the gloves and step in the ring. Sadly, the boxing community is in mourning […]
Staff Sergeant Christopher W. Dill Award: Veterans’ Hall of Fame Year: 2005 Inductee was nominated by Former Senator Mary Lou Rath Staff Sergeant Christopher W. Dill, a Buffalo firefighter from the Town of Tonawanda, could have volunteered for reserve duty […]
Cases of Interest for the Week of July 22, 2019 Monday, July 22, 2019 ADAJudgePart #Status Defendant Name Case Details Vega, J.—SCAAppearance/730 Exam Results Shanice Martin Charged with Attempted Murder in the second degree and additional charges. The defendant allegedly stabbed […]
Emma Lazarus (1849) Lazarus was an American Jewish poet. She became an impassioned spokeswoman for Judaism after the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, writing many essays and a book of poems, Songs of a Semite, which contains her best work. Her writings caught the attention of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with whom she shared a lifetime correspondence. She also worked for the relief of new immigrants to the US, and the famous closing lines of her sonnet “The New Colossus” were engraved on what monument? More…
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. Jane Austen (1775-1817)
verbiage Definition: (noun) The excessive and often meaningless use ofwords; verbosity. Synonyms: repetition, tautology, redundancy, circumlocution, prolixity, periphrasis, pleonasm Usage: He is generally a smooth and fluent versifier, but hisfluency is his undoing; he wraps up his material in toogreat a mass of verbiage. Discuss.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced the formation of a U.S.-led international “Commission on Unalienable Rights.” The commission is designed to bring together human rights experts, philosophers, and activists, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents of varied background and beliefs, who […]
Judges 7:7 (TLB) “I’ll conquer the Midianites with these three hundred!” the Lord told Gideon. “Send all the others home!” One song writer said, “It’s a mighty good thing to be chosen by God!” It means God has decided […]
By William Coppola: Contributor Bronx Chronicle As I watched the Long Island Ducks doubleheader Friday night vs. the Lancaster Barnstormers that began the second half of their season in the Atlantic League, I looked for any sign of all the […]
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