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(McCain, in a 2008 appearance on David Letterman's Late Show gamely uttered the idiom himself in a comedy turn.) [10] The Capitol Steps album I'm So Indicted included "Hey, You, Get Off of My Lawn" (a parody of "Get Off of My Cloud"), and comic social commentator Jon Stewart described United States Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as "a ...
"Young fogey" is a term humorously applied, in British context, to some younger-generation, rather buttoned-down [clarification needed] men, many of whom were writers and journalists. The term is attributed to Alan Watkins writing in 1984 in The Spectator .
"Okie from Muskogee" is a song recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers, which Haggard co-wrote with drummer Roy Edward Burris.
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor, author and lawyer.Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s and 1940s, and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies such as old-time radio broadcasts ...
Diodorus was the son of Ameinias of Iasus in Caria.He lived in the court of Alexandria in the reign of Ptolemy I Soter, who is said to have given him the surname of Cronus ("old fogey" [2]) on account of his inability to solve at once some dialectic problem proposed by Stilpo, when the two philosophers were dining with the king.
The New York Times has used video games as part of its journalistic efforts, among the first publications to do so, [13] contributing to an increase in Internet traffic; [14] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, The New York Times began offering its newspaper online, and along with it the crossword puzzles, allowing readers to solve puzzles on their computers.
In another notable Times crossword, 27-year-old Bill Gottlieb proposed to his girlfriend, Emily Mindel, via the crossword puzzle of January 7, 1998, written by noted crossword constructor Bob Klahn. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] The answer to 14-Across, [Microsoft chief, to some] was BILLG, also Gottlieb's name and last initial. 20-Across, [1729 Jonathan Swift ...
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