The Not-So-Brief History of Scandal Among New York City Mayors
Mayor Eric Adams is the first modern-era New York City mayor to be indicted. But A. Oakey Hall, his little-known predecessor, ...
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The heiress at Harvard who helped revolutionize murder investigations — and the case she couldn’t forget
A dapper dresser, he cut an unusual figure in town. He wore pince-nez for glasses, smoked a pipe, and lived for years at Boston’s private St. Botolph Club, then on Newbury Street. He ate only ...
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Before Watson and Crick
Avery, a shy bachelor who wore a pince-nez, was one of those too modest for his own good. His discovery has been called worth two Nobel Prizes, but he never got even one—perhaps because ...
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Modern Progressivism: Aging and Strange
Fixated on the figure of Woodrow Wilson (with his glinting pince-nez, priggish Victorian Dad mien, and anti-suffrage segregationist views, a suitably unambiguous villain), this is the wrong-turn ...
His mom enrolled in bat mitzvah classes. He made a movie about it starring Carol Kane.
Fast forward a few years and Nathan “would walk through the halls of school with a bowler hat and pince-nez, and French ...
Laughing in the face of evil
Malcolm Knox’s novel The First Friend is set in the Soviet Union and its offshoot Georgia in 1938. The main characters are ...
New York Sun29d
‘Reagan’ — With Hope and Optimism — Lets Reagan Be Reagan
It dares, as First Lady Nancy says in the film, to “let Ronnie be Ronnie.” Some presidents have props — pince-nez, a beard, a stovepipe hat — that helps actors get into character. Without any of these ...
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My Family and I Lived Out Our Polar Express Dreams and Met Santa Claus in Finnish Lapland — Here’s How
Inside, a huge man with a knee-length beard and red hat greeted my daughters, his eyes sparkling behind a pair of pince-nez. 12 Unique Christmas Traditions Celebrated Around the World “Have ...
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Henri Matisse’s Revolutionary Colors
(This is the first part of a two-part article. Read the second part.) At the débuts of all the revolutionary styles of ...
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The Lampoon
He has an eye for the incisive detail that can paint an instant picture--a "jade-rimmed pince-nez," an "ivory ping-pong table" -- but sometimes he starts cataloguing trivia. With sparser details ...
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Sherlock Holmes
3. The Golden Pince-Nez - Drama series featuring the famous detective.Holmes and his brother Mycroft investigate when the assistant to an elderly professor dies with a pair of golden pince-nez ...
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Tiny Japanese carvings on view at the Jewish Museum tell the story of a Jewish family’s resilience
They include a silk damask Torah parochet (Torah ark curtain) made from the wedding dress of a family member and pince-nez, or eyeglasses, made of glass and metal. The glasses belonged to Viktor ...