Word: martha
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Last Wednesday—just three days after an e-mail detailing the format of the course’s take-home final examination had been sent to the 585 students enrolled in the course—head teaching fellow Martha Nadell sent an e-mail announcing that the course would have a regular three-hour final examination...
...Johnny told me, ‘You have to make the people dance,’” said Charlie Rhodes, O’Connor’s closest friend. “So I want the house lights on and I want to hear Martha and the Vandellas, ‘Dancing in the Street...
Ulrich’s books, including Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 and A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, have set a standard of readability as well as scholarship. A Midwife’s Tale earned a Pulitzer Prize in history and was crafted into a documentary. With The Age of Homsepun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth, Ulrich is back with another study of life in colonial New England that is destined to become...
...back in his room at the end of the year because he left school early to attend the Truman Scholars Leadership Week, he was not fined. Nor did he get in trouble for painting his room in sky blue, white and royal blue. “It was very Martha Stewart, though she would probably disagree...
It’s not like I’m a totally converted domestic. I can see how the drudgery of a daily obligation to put food on the table for a family would chip away at even the most Martha-esque culinary good cheer. But my experience in meal preparation so far, limited to my own whim and the cushion of a meal plan in times of laziness, is the most unpredictably good thing in my life right now. I don’t really know what that means, but every time I use the word parboil...