The Chicano Struggle (United States News, 1966)
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The Anderson Family History (Coronet Magazine, 1941)
Statistically, Anderson is the the 12th most common surname in the United States and there are 894,704 Americans who bare this last name. The name stems from two sources: Scottish and Scandinavian. Both are derived from the Greek word Andreas, which means strong, manly or courageous.
In America today there are many Andersons high in achievement, some of them still spelling their name Andersen, who were born in Sweden, Norway or Denmark. This article broadly outlines the great and famous Andersons, the ones who have walked the halls of Congress, thrived in business, written the books, preached from the pulpits and fought the wars.
Oddly, very little column space is devoted to the infamous Andersons (ie. Confederate thug Bloody Bill Anderson).
The most common last name in the English speaking world (except Canada) is Smith – read about it…
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Who Was Wilde’s Dorian Gray? (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1919)
One writer’s reminiscence of attending a London party and being introduced to Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) and the object of his affection, John Gray. The author insists, as has been documented in other places, that Gray was the model for Wilde’s character Dorian Gray:
Once at a Private View in the New Gallery, as I came downstairs, I came on Wilde, in the midst of his admirers, showing more than ever his gift of versatility. Seeing me he made a gesture, and as I went up he introduced me to John Gray, then in what is called ‘the zenith’ of his youth. The adventure was certainly amusing…
An additional article about Wilde can be seen here.
Click here to read a 1940s article about American sodomy legislation.
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Wedlock: Ideal for Men (Manners, Culture and Dress, 1893)
Wise words from the Victorians regarding the perils of bachelorhood:
There is no tear shed for the old bachelor; there is no ready hand and kind heart to cheer him in his loneliness and bereavement…
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Wedlock: Ideal for Men (Manners, Culture and Dress, 1893)
Wise words from the Victorians regarding the perils of bachelorhood:
There is no tear shed for the old bachelor; there is no ready hand and kind heart to cheer him in his loneliness and bereavement…
Click here to read other Victorian Gems.
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Winston Churchill and the Mesopotamia Occupation (The Spectator, 1921)
Mesopotamia should be placed in the same file as Gallipoli, along with all the other various assorted fantasies conceived by his Lordship. Mr. Churchill hopes to avert any fresh rising by setting up an Arab Government. The people are to elect a National Assembly this summer, and the Assembly is to choose a ruler…Mr. Churchill admits that that he does not know whether the people of [Iraq], who are rent with tribal, sectarian, racial, and economic feuds, will choose the Emir Feisul.
Click here to read about Churchill’s other folly: the Battle of Gallipoli.
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Lt. Colonel Charles Whittelesey in the Vanity Fair Hall of Fame (December, 1918)
Unlike the Vanity Fair magazine that we find on our newsstands, the Vanity Fair published under the steady hand of it’s first editor, Frank Crowninshield (1872 – 1947), was able to recognize that military heroes are a rare, three-dimensional breed, composed of an uncommon variety of testicular fortitude. Indeed, some years back, Israel went to the effort of giving IQ tests to the heroes of the Six Day War (1967) and they were not surprised to find that all of them tested in the higher ranges of their populations. The W.W. I U.S. Army hero Crowninshield saluted on the attached page was the commanding officer of a brave group of men called the Lost Battalion.
Click here to read more about the heroism of Major Whittelesey.
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The Personal Ads (Rob Wagner’s Script, 1935)
Before there was social media, there were the personal ads.
And what, as a general rule, is the personal column used for? To communicate, to sell, to plot, to advertise, to complain, to hope, to invite, to reject, to pray, to love, to hate, to express appreciation – in fact, anything.
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Husbands and Hygiene (Atlanta Georgian, 1917)
A wife, having suffered her husband’s stench long enough, had the police drag him away to stand before the local magistrate where, she hoped, some swift, punitive measure would be delivered and placate not only herself, but the long-suffering tax-payers as well. The husband agreed to bathe.
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Another Addition to Man’s Incomprehension of Woman… (The Saturday Review of Literature, 1932)
Attached is the 1932 review of Woman: Theme and Variations by Major A. Corbett-Smith:
There is no mystery about women, he announces…she is never quite sure of herself in comparison with other women; but she is well aware of her superiority to man…
Click here to read about feminine conversations overheard in the best New York nightclubs of 1937.