2. Chinese suit (Tangzhuang): Tang suit (Tangzhuang) is a type of traditional Chinese suit that combines the Manchu male jacket of the Qing Dynasty (1616 - 1912) and the western style suit.During the Chinese New Year, people usually wear Tangzhuang in red and gold colors....
But along toward evening she blossomed forth in a yellow gown, with a scarlet poinsettia at her throat. I quit her cold. Nobody ever wore a scarlet poinsettia; or if they did, they couldn’t wear it on a yellow gown. Or if they did wear it with a yellow gown, they didn’t wear...
“Oh, I see,” she said with a wink in her voice. “If you did tell me you would have to kill me. Just like in a James Bond movie.” The black guard looked at the carpet before him and tried to suppress a smile. The elevator door opened, Helen stepped in and turned to face ...
And humorist-lawyer Kevin Underhill of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, a name which is at once lyrical and kind of funny-sounding, but I am not sure why, has written "Plaintiff: This Soap Did Not Attract Women as Promised" at his Lowering the Bar. In my next lawyer life, I would like to ...
Being such a well-known leader in the struggle against South African apartheid, when he would compare Israeli apartheid to the South African version, this was just the kind of support the movement to boycott Israel needed, and Tutu did his best to provide it, over and over again. There ...
did in large part "for the public good." For example, things I'm not including are Senior Class President (mix of duties and agendas), Eagle Scout (the same), working in a union-shop factory (Keebler's, in my case), membership in student or church groups with some but not primary ...
Perhaps in response to last year, when 4 guys had put on a panel called “Women in Comics,” and did not include one woman on the panel, there were tons of women-oriented panels this year, so many that they clashed with each other, and I had to cancel at least one panel so that...
in 1912.The Colossus,then she hit an iceberg in thick fog in the North Atlantic Ocean ,she actually disappeared in less than twenty minutes,taking nearly fifteen hundred people with her.My own life was saved by my youth.Being only a boy of fourteen,I was one of those lucky women and ...
jaguar: n.a type of large, yellow-colored cat with black markings found in the southwestern region of the U.S.and in Central and South America. jargon: 1.n.an unknown language that seems strange or impossible to understand.2.n.a language made up of two or more other languages: His ja...
From time to time I also need to care for my spirit. I long ago realized I could do little for others if I did not tend to myself. When the weather and free time allow it, I practice self-care in the Pacific Ocean, with a surfboard, to disconnect from things that weigh on me....