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A Frock of Luxurious Distinction, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
February 17, 2014
On the Shelf
Image via Retronaut
It’s Presidents Day, and surely you’re looking to relax with a presidential biography. There have been roughly fifteen thousand books written about Abraham Lincoln.
These are the ones worth reading
.
New York Fashion Week is over, but it’s never too late to scrutinize these 1919 advertisements for “
New York styles
”: “a frock of luxurious distinction,” a “wool chiffon panama skirt,” a “bewitching little turban.”
“Signifying nothing is harder than it looks.” “At Starbucks I order under the name Godot. Then leave.” Behind
the Adorno-esque Twitter presence of @NeinQuarterly
, one of the medium’s finest aphorists.
Now that Valentine’s Day is behind us, let’s take a hard look at
the history of divorce.
At last, scientific evidence that those who troll the Internet—lurking in comments sections and hurling epithets like so much feces—
are sadistic and psychopathic
.
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