Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Lost in Translation

"The idea of teaching every girl to thump the piano and every boy to be a bookkeeper will make potatoes worth eight dollars a barrel in twenty years." -Virginia City [Montana] Times I have no idea what that means.

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Montana's Loose Definition of 'Moral'

"Judge Clancy yesterday in a naturalization hearing defined a man 'of good moral character' who had never stolen a horse or cut a throat." -The Montana Standard, 19 April 1942, p. 29