Quote of the Day: January 20, 2020
Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none: if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none: if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
reproachful Definition: (adjective) Expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective. Synonyms: admonishing, reproving, admonitory Usage: The milkmaid cast many reproachful glances over her shoulder at the clumsy strangers, holding her nicked elbow close to her side. Discuss.
When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. 6 Therefore I remind you to stir up the […]
By William Coppola: Contributor Bronx Chronicle Sports Today I think it is time to begin the healing in baseball. How do we put all that we have seen in the past few weeks, of what is bad in baseball, behind […]
Mack Sennett (1880) Sennett was an American movie director, considered the father of slapstick comedy in film. After directing comedies under the tutelage of D.W. Griffith, he left to form his own Keystone Company and produced the first American feature-length comedy, Tillie’s Punctured Romance, in 1914. He made more than 1,000 comedy shorts, often featuring the wild antics of the Keystone Kops, and received a special Academy Award in 1937. As an actor, Sennett played what iconic character in several films? More…
She might hate me, and revile me, and heap indignity after indignity upon me, as she already had, until I should have hated her; but the pitiful fact remained that I loved her. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
arcadian Definition: (adjective) (Used with regard to idealized country life) Idyllically rustic. Synonyms: bucolic, pastoral Usage: Often she found herself dreaming of the arcadian days of her people, when they had not lived in cities nor been vexed with labor unions and employers’ associations. Discuss.
By PROFESSOR ANTHONY RIVIECCIO, MBA PFA Most people mistakenly think that tax preparation is tax planning time. But by thinking this way, they think they could “erase” or “add” things that happened in 2019 when it is now 2020. So […]
BRONX MAN SENTENCED TO 17 YEARS IN PRISON FOR FATALLY STABBING ESTRANGED WIFE ON BRONX STREET Defendant Pleaded Guilty to First-Degree Manslaughter Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been sentenced to 17 years in […]
Eric Henry Liddell (1902) Liddell was a Scottish athlete and missionary. Because of his Christian convictions, Liddell refused to run track events on Sundays, a decision that forced him to withdraw from his best event, the 100-meter sprint, during the 1924 Paris Olympics. Instead, he ran the 400 meters, winning the gold medal and breaking the existing world record. His story is depicted in the Academy Award-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. Why is he listed in some literature as China’s first Olympic champion? More…
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism. Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
friable Definition: (adjective) Easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder. Synonyms: crumbly Usage: The men disturbed the loose, friable earth of the slope … disclosing human bones already nearly uncovered by the action of water and frost. Discuss.
By Rich Mancuso/ Sports editor and contributing writer William Coppola “He said I/m beginning to think that baseball is fake and there is no honesty among baseball players.” A comment above from an 11-year old Little League ballplayer as relayed […]
Mihai Eminescu (1850) Eminescu is considered Romania’s greatest poet. His first poems were published when he was just a teen, and a few years later he joined the literary circle Junimea and began contributing to its journal, Convorbiri literare. His lyrical, passionate, and revolutionary poems had a profound influence on Romanian letters. Eminescu suffered from periodic attacks of insanity and died shortly after one such attack. He is honored in a monument in the capital city of what Islamic country? More…
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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