Word: holmeses
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In fact, the authors say in their exhaustive--even tedious--catalogue of quotes, Charles Boyer never invited anyone to the Casbah. Sherlock Holmes never chided his sidekick with the words, "Elementary, my dear Watson." And Will Rogers never said he never met a man he didn't like.
Boyer's statement was a fabrication of his publicist, Holmes' a pure fabrication and Rogers an inaccuracy (What the comedian actually said, according to George and Boller, was, "I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like.")
IT is not surprising that until now, there had never been a full biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Widely considered one of the greatest justices ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, Holmes wrote more than 2000 opinions for the court and lived until the ripe age of 93...
As much a literary figure as a legal one, Holmes' major work, The Common Law, is held as one of the classics of legal scholarship more than a century after its publication. Toss in Holmes' friendships with the major figures of the Northeastern aristocracy (Henry and William James and Henry...
Wendell Holmes