They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.

His wife 'ruled the roost,' and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams, and bla…

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? - No - no, 'tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, an…

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

On jazz: 'Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other coun…

A colored is a very frightened-to-death Afro-American. A Negro is one that makes it in the system, and he wants to be white. A nigger, he's loud and boisterous…