Why did the labor movement lose its appeal in the 1920s? Why was anarchism popular in the 1920s? Why was immigration restricted in the 1920s? Why did the feminist movement decline in the 1920s? Why did the American economy collapse in 1929? Why is it called the Harlem Renaissance? W...
This is the graph the OkCupid guys have come up with. And the important thing to notice is that it's not totally true that the more attractive you are, the more messages you get. But the question arises then of what is it about people up here who are so much more popular than peopl...
We think of “It Girl” as referring to “oh, she’s got ‘It’”— like an unidentified wow factor. And while that was true of Bow, the idea of being the “It Girl” came from a movie she starred in from 1927 called “It," which was written with her in mind. She played a ...
Some Like It Hot is too buoyant to be brought down to earth by such prissiness. When Sugar learns that Joe has been tricking her, she runs straight into his arms. When Osgood learns that Jerry has been tricking him, he doesn’t bat an eyelid. The message is that there is nothing wro...
Absolute Distribution is a unit of Times-Shamrock Communications. Its business manager said the company would lose money if it continued to truck out-of-town newspapers to places like Binghamton on Mondays. For now, Times-Shamrock is producing print editions for the other six days a week. That...
Have you ever wondered why Easter can fall in either March or April, unlike Christmas which is always on December 25th? For example, last year Easter was on April 9th, while this year it falls on March 31st. The reason behind the shifting date of Easter is quite interesting. Easter is ...
(THL) bought out Art Van in 2017, it spent the next two and a half years turning it from a profitable powerhouse and top retailer in the Midwest, to what one commentator called a “house afire.” We experienced management cutting staff, liquidating real estate, and leaving customers’ ...
This competition is the kind that drives stocks down even when business does not look so bad.Snapwas an easy example for Cramer, whocalled Morgan Stanley’s Tuesday downgradeof the stock an “obituary” on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” ...
After the lockdown was lifted I swore to myself that I would do more. I would go to more events, I would be out and about as much as I could and I would do things to better my health. I recently started working out with a trainer who keeps me on my toes when it comes to wor...
It’s been over three months since we last checked in on the woman I call “The Eighth Wonder of the World,” Jordan Carver. As you can see from these photos she shared overnight that is FAR, FAR too long for us to have waited. ...