In the first week of 1936 the Court took up residence in its new classic-revival temple on Capitol Hill. "It is a magnificent structure," said a New Yorker writer, "with fine big windows to throw the New Deal out of."David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999), ch. 11 (Kennedy’s endnote says: "New Yorker quoted in Irving Bernstein, Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970), p. 639.")
commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.
commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.
Monday, October 5, 2015
Supreme Court's big windows
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