Resorts advertised for waitresses, specifying that they "must appear in short clothes or no engagement." Below a Gospel Guide colu...mn headed, "Where our Local Divines Will Hang Out Tomorrow," was an account of spirited gun play at the Bon Ton. In Jeff Winney's California Concert Hall, patrons "bucked the tiger" under the watchful eye of Kitty Crawhurst, popular "lady" gambler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bon mots, and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions o...f surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature,--being some curiosity or oddity, designedly not in harmony with nature, and purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My self ... is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic b...on vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Commoners are weightless. But he was a royal bon vivant who, no matter what, always weighed 125 kilos. I would be very surprised i...f he didn't have a few pounds left.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Working mother" is a misnomer. . . . It implies that any mother without a definite career is lolling around eating bon- bons, rea...ding novels, and watching soap opera. But the word "mother" is already a synonym for some of the hardest, most demanding work ever shouldered by any human. . . . It is one she cannot easily give up for several decades. It can be slavery, joy in work, a magnificent career. It can be failure or triumph, but it can never be insignificant or unimportant since it is one "job" affecting the outcome of another's life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We women are not made for governing and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations; but there are times whi...ch force one to take interest in them mal gré bon gré, and I do, of course, intensely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Flee from the press and dwell with soothfastness; Suffice unto thy good though it be small,... For hoard hath hate and climbing ticklishness, Press hath envy and weal blent overall;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaph...ysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »