My father was born in 1910. He rarely called underpants ‘underpants’. He called them ‘indescribables’ or ‘unmentionables’, and into them he put his ‘benders’, ‘underpinners’ or — wait for it — ‘crural ...

A Tyco juror yesterday said Ruth Jordan played the panel “like a fiddle” during deliberations, since she now says she intended to hold out for an acquittal. In remarks published yesterday, Jordan said ...

Eloquence most flourished at Rome when the public affairs were in the worst condition — Michel de Montaigne. What the French essayist wrote in the mid-16th century about Rome of the 2nd and 1st ...

Composed for string orchestra and later orchestrated for full orchestra, Fiddle-Faddle was completed January 1, 1947. It is 3 minutes and 10 seconds long. It was first performed for string orchestra ...