Uninitiated Definition: (adjective) Not knowledgeable or skilled; inexperienced. Synonyms: Naive Usage: To an uninitiated onlooker, nothing could have been more ghastly or absurd.

Catharine Beecher (1800) Beecher was an American lecturer, author, and advocate for women’s education. The sister of abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe, she popularized a conservative movement to rescue women from frivolous “feminine” pursuits—by elevating and entrenching women’s role in […]

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Pestilential Definition: (adjective) Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease. Synonyms: Pestiferous, Plaguey Usage: I have a notion, and more than a notion, that I shall never pass back alive through these pestilential swamps.

Arthur Koestler (1905) Born in Hungary, Koestler was an influential Communist journalist in Berlin in the 1930s. He was captured by fascist forces while on assignment during the Spanish Civil War and was later held in a concentration camp after […]

The soldier who executes what his captain orders does no less than the captain himself who gives the order. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

Chairman Crowley Statement on August Jobs Report (Queens, NY) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) issued the following statement on the August jobs report: “Hard-working families are struggling to find financial security. President Trump and Republicans in Congress […]