The Morning News Roundup for March 17, 2014

Bell Telephones debuted the Princess phone in 1959. Image via Attitude Analyst

The OED has made its latest update. Among the new words added: wackadoo, toilet-paper (as a verb), cunt lapper, and assisted living.
Minneapolis’s Graywolf Press turns forty.
Evocative shots of New York’s 1964 World’s Fair recall a time when the future was full of wonder, typefaces were chunkier, and you could ride a giant tire like a Ferris wheel.
Why should you major in English? Because Barbara Walters and Mitt Romney did, of course!
“It’s little! … It’s lovely! … It lights!” An enlightening history of Bell Telephone’s 1959 “Princess phone,” “the first phone specifically created for teenage girls and women … in its beauty and its place in the home, [it] was the embodiment of perfect womanly qualities of the time.”

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