CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
The 4-fold manifestation of the divine trinity, forming the 'jewel in the lotus' or the 'diamond heart,' the geometrical reason for the twelve-fold divsion of the zodiac. From The Key of Destiny by Harriette Augusta Curtiss and F. Homer Curtiss, 1923.
You've heard there's no point unless you dedicate your life to it (whatever "it" may entail). Well, this particular yearbook staff followed up on that, and apparently none of them lived to see the publication. From Eastern Carolina's 1927 yearbook.
We hardn't need to be reminded to ask about haunted mirrors and resident ghosts -- those are the first questions we ask wherever we go! From Fodor's New Mexico.
"She really did try to smile, though she didn't know how at all." From Howtobegood Stories by Edith Cushing Derbyshire and illustrated by Noble Ives, 1918.