The “Tom Swift” books were boy’s adventures put out starting in 1910 by the Stratemeyer Syndicate using the house name, “Victor Appleton.” When Swift’s adventures became dated after WWII, a second series was created starring Swift’s son, Tom Swift, Jr. and used the house name “Victor Appleton II.”
Edward Victor Appleton won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to knowledge of the ionosphere, which led to the development of radar.
I don’t concede that there is such a thing as “the verb ‘to refugee.’” I don’t create words. In the sentence you wrote, I would say, “when he came as a refugee to NYC.” :: shrugs :: But that’s just me.
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Joseph Ellis won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his book Founding Brothers, about the interactions of such early leaders of the republic as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson with each other.
You don’t create words or acknowledge the O.E.D. You have exacting standards, indeed, but tis your right.
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Jefferson Davis’s widow, the former Varina Howell, signed her columns for Pulitzer’s The World as “Varina Jefferson Davis”. Pulitzer’s wife, the former Kate Davis, was a distant cousin of Jefferson and became a very close friend of Jefferson & Varina’s daughter, Varina “Winnie” Davis, nicknamed “The Daughter of the Confederacy”. Winnie, a terrible houseguest, actually died at the Pulitzer’s vacation home in Rhode Island.
How was Winnie a terrible houseguest?
Sorry, that’s behind a subscriber or library card login, and my local library is apparently not an approved institution. This Oxford link, already provided to you above, did not recognize “refugeed”: Oxford Languages | The Home of Language Data
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Thomas Jefferson denied funding an opposition newspaper while he was serving as Secretary of State in George Washington’s Administration until the newspaper’s editor and he had a falling out, and the editor publicized secret letters from Jefferson.
It was Thomas Jefferson who coined the verb “neologize.”
Source: Reader’s Almanac.
Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and “the Sage of Monticello,” was far more lexicographically innovative than little old me.
Elendil’s Heir can be seen running in fear away from Loki in Marvel’s The Avengers in a German Opera House in Cleveland.
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refugee, v.
1.trans. To give refuge to, shelter; to send to a place of refuge. Also refl.: to take refuge.
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2003 I. Berlin Generations of Captivity iii. 125 When they could, they refugeed their slaves to some safe haven in the Floridas, Louisiana, and the West Indies.
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3.intr[ansitive]
orig. chiefly U.S. To be or become a refugee; to flee or live as a refugee.
1862 S. K. Holmes Jrnl. 25 Aug. in Brokenburn (1955) 139 The planters generally are moving back to the hills as fast as possible. There are two families refugeeing in our neighbourhood.
1888 P. H. Sheridan Memoirs I. xiv. 255 To the doctor she related that the year before she had ‘refugeed’ from East Tennessee.
1936 M. Mitchell Gone with Wind xviii. 324 The exodus of women, children and old people from the city began… Many..who took the train that night had already refugeed five and six times before.
1981 K. Amis Lett. (2000) 932 Yes, Gross has gone to Weid, refugeeing from Murdoch.
2002 E. Haydon Requiem for Sun 295 Those who had left the Island after them had refugeed.
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“Sage of Monticello” was the final volume in Dumas Malone’s multivolume biography of Thomas Jefferson; considered definitive at the time, Malone is criticized by many subsequent Jefferson scholars for being too hagiographic.
(Not for play: my father was buried with a copy of that book because it happened to be the one he was reading when he died; no idea if he ever finished it)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme are featured in the refrain to the Yorkshire folk-song, “Scarborough Fair.”
When LSD advocate Timothy Leary escaped from a minimum security prison (where he was placed due in part to a placement test for prisoners he had helped design) he and his fourth wife, Rosemary, were smuggled out of the country by Weather Underground (aka the Weathermen) and flown to Algeria, where they were held hostage by Eldridge Cleaver and several expatriate Black Panthers.
In the Backyardigans episode, “Race to the Tower of Power,” the superheroes Weather Woman (Uniqua) and Captain Hammer (Austin) have to race the supervillains Yucky Man (Pablo) and Dr Shrinky (Tyrone) to obtain the Key to the World, stored in the Tower of Power. The superheroes win, and the supervillains change to superheroes, becoming Very Clean Guy and Dr Grow.
Tower of Power is a horn-based rock/blues band that’s been performing for over 45 years. Though they never had a big hit, they often guested on other albums when a horn section was needed.
According to legend, the horn of a unicorn could be used to detect poisons.
Other than dying there, how was she a terrible houseguest?
Thanks, Sampiro, for the OED info on “refugeed.” Still looks wrong to me and, as all those other links showed, is not widely used.
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The Vulgar Unicorn was a rough-and-tumble tavern in the Thieves’ World fantasy anthologies begun by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978.
Robert Asprin was active in science fiction fandom and in the early years of the Society for Creative Anachronism under the name “Yang the Nauseating”, and co-founded the Great Dark Horde in 1971. He was also an influential member of the Dorsai Irregulars
Robert Duvall’s favorite city is Buenos Aires, Argentina, and he is an avid Tango dancer.
Gabriel Duvall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He has been nominated for the title of the most insignficant justice of the Court in its entire history. He sat on the Court for 24 years. During that time, he wrote 15 majority opinions, and dissented from Chief Justice Marshall only three times. Before he resigned because of old age, he had established the tradition of elderly justices staying on the Court because they are fearful of who will replace them.
The nickname of Shelley Duvall, who was born and raised in Houston, is the Texas Twiggy.
It is rumoured that the nickname for the new CFL Ottawa team is to be the “RedBlacks”. An announcement is not likely to take place until the Ottawa Senators finish their playoff run, so the new team’s nickname won’t get lost in NHL playoff madness.