Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.
A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and wh… - Jessica Mitford
A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and wh…
- Jessica Mitford
Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.' - Jessica Mitford
Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees. - Jessica Mitford
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.
Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public. - Jessica Mitford
Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. - Jessica Mitford
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large. - Jessica Mitford
the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.
I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men t… - Jessica Mitford
I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men t…
Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out. - Jessica Mitford
Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.
I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister. - Jessica Mitford
I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
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