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William Safire (1929) Safire was an American journalist and a speechwriter for US President Richard Nixon, who once ordered Safire's phone be tapped. In 1973, Safire became a syndicated political columnist for The New York Times, a post he held until 2005. A master of wordplay, he also wrote regularly on language-related topics.
William Safire, the renowned wordsmith and conservative political pundit has died of pancreatic cancer in a Rockville, Maryland hospice at the age of 79. William Safire was most famous for having been former U.S. President Richard Nixon's speechwriter, and for the three decades' worth of influential conservative columns he penned for the ...
The Oxford English Dictionary says that perhaps "duct tape" was originally "duck tape". This view is summarized most notably in a New York Times article by etymologist William Safire in March 2003. Safire cites use of the term "cotton duck tape" in a 1945 advertisement for surplus government property.[14]
***** In his 200l book entitled Let a Simile Be Your Umbrella, "good" English expert William Safire was upset that many Americans NO LONGER automatically respond with "You're welcome" to every "Thank you." Personally, I often feel embarrassed to say "You're welcome." Sometimes I just smile and nod my head in acknowledgment.
John William "Johnny" Carson (1925) Two years after a 12-year-old Carson sent away for a magic kit, "The Great Carsoni" gave his first performance. He continued his show business career by working as a radio announcer and television comedy writer and went on to host several television quiz shows from 1955 to 1962.
William Orville Douglas (1898) Douglas, a US Supreme Court justice and author, practiced and taught law early in his career, before becoming a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1936. As SEC chairman, he engineered the reorganization of US stock exchanges, instituted measures aimed at protecting small investors, and began ...
William served in the Peninsular War, was wounded at Waterloo, and led the Dutch army in the Belgian revolution after his father failed to approve his conciliation efforts. Called to the throne upon his father's abdication in 1840, William was immediately confronted with a financial crisis, which was solved by raising a "voluntary loan" among ...
William James Durant (1885) Durant was an American historian and essayist. In 1926, he published The Story of Philosophy, which soon became a bestseller. He then began a decades-long project—the writing of a comprehensive history of civilization. The result was The Story of Civilization, a monumental, 4,000,000-word, 10,000-page work ...
William Kemmler's 8-Minute Execution In 1890, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed via electric chair after murdering his wife with a hatchet. Appeals on the grounds that electrocution was "cruel and unusual punishment" were opposed by Thomas Edison, who allegedly wanted to use the electric chair to convince people that ...
From the Internet. "Guard is of Old French origin, entering Middle English around the 14th century, from Norman-French guarder. Derived from Latin wardō, a borrowing from Frankish *wardōn, ultimately from Germanic *wardaną, 'to guard, protect'. It obviously cognates with French regarder ('to watch, concern with') and comparative with yard ...