"Why all this softness?"  From Awake magazine, 1958.

Perhaps she couldn't tell the truth, but her fried eggs were so romantic.  From Lighted Pathway, 1958.

The way the newsclipping service clipped and arranged the headline, it forms its own little visual poem.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1971.

"Wild, but not yet crazy."  From National-Louis' 1989 yearbook.

We are striving to enter 1933 both fearless and free.  From The War Cry, 1932.

We have a problem with Broadway plays requiring answers from the audience, because when we go to the theatre, we wish to be passively entertained.  From Together, 1965.

So disappointing -- at first glance, we thought this was news of duck-shaped UFOs flying overhead.  Of course we envisioned the iconic rubber ducky.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1971.

"Should you conform?"  From Awake magazine, 1958.

"There is definitely something going on, and we ought to find out what it is."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.

"A dictionary editor says ... It is not irreverent to use 'Merry Xmas.'"  From Together, 1969.

"What can you say about Christmas?"  Nothing, since all the meanings have been lost over the centuries: see The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

From Hanover's 1962 yearbook.

"When the little room of self closes in on you, it's Christmastime."  From The Martlet, 1970.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

Many decades before everything went virtual, there was this e-wedding.  From Lighted Pathway, 1958.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

We checked, and fewer gadgets are obscuring God these days, mainly because now everything is an app.  From Together, 1959.

This is the only peppermint Bible mentioned on the web, not including false hits for peppermint tea bags that come with Bible verses.  From Together, 1970.

"Elves in the toilets."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.  Not toilet reading: See How to Believe in Your Elf.

You may have had a sense that everything counts toward something.  But it only counts toward twenty.  [The context is twenty years of service before retirement from the armed forces.]  From It All Counts Toward Twenty by Everett Christensen.

You may have suspected it, and we found proof: "Cheerleaders 'don't care.'"  To date, we've found only a single photo of a cheerleader crying after her team lost.  From Daily Tar Heel, 1965.

You've heard the idiom, "Take to the hills!" but here's when to literally do it.  From Sunlight and Stone by George Carl Justin Magg, 1969.

"How good a synonym are you?"  We're not sure, but we do know some major antonyms.  From Lighted Pathway, 1977.