Word: shallowness
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...would receive the estate when his employer died. But Tradescent Jr.’s second wife, Hester Pookes, contested the validity of the will. What happened next is well documented. “On 4 April 1678 Hester Pookes Tradescant was found drowned in her own shallow pond at South Lambeth,” the magazine McSweeney’s reported in an 1999 article. “With her death the final obstacle was cleared for her neighbor, Elias Ashmole, ‘the greatest virtuoso and curioso that ever was known or read of in England before...
...unattractive women please,” if expressed in conversation or with his name attached, would have marked him for life. Yet the fact that life has driven this alleged senior to the exigency of posting on Craigslist makes his words more amusing than appalling. He is racist, sexist, shallow, and perhaps even height-ist, but now thousands of people know he can’t get a date...
THAT A REAL ESTATE BUST MIGHT LAND US IN a recession is in a way fitting because it was a real estate boom that kept the last recession, in 2001, so brief and shallow. Trying to stave off deflation in the wake of the stock-market crash, Alan Greenspan's Federal Reserve cut the short-term interest rates that determine what homeowners pay on adjustable-rate mortgages. Meanwhile, investors desperate for someplace other than the stock market to put their money piled into mortgage securities, driving down the cost of fixed-rate loans. Housing markets, already doing well amid...
...appalled that several presidents have found comfort in the shallow religiosity of Graham. I hope they associated with him only for political reasons and were too wise to take him seriously. The fact that Jimmy Carter and Harry Truman kept him at a distance increases my regard for them. Time observes that Graham "has shaped the contours of American public religion." If that is so, then I weep. M.D. Fisher, Cashmere, Queensland...
...days approach--and little feet are slap-slapping on the concrete and young voices are calling "Marco" and "Polo"--I increasingly love that pool and don't care who knows it. Most people, like most pools, have a deep end and a shallow one. I'm going to enjoy my shallow end for a while...