Articles by Department: Chapter and Verse
Chapter & Verse
May 1, 2008
Michael Comenetz asks if the phrase “Galloping Gordon,” sometimes applied to British prime minister Gordon Brown, originated with…
Chapter & Verse
March 1, 2008
Suzanne Ekman hopes someone can identify a source for the following line, possibly from a Mark Van Doren poem: “…but where were…
Chapter & Verse
January 1, 2008
Marcia Chellis requests a source for “Everything is high school.” Barbara Murray would like to verify an anecdote involving…
Chapter & Verse
November 1, 2007
Editor’s note: “If anything can go wrong, it will,” officially identified as “Murphy’s Law” in our copy of…
Chapter & Verse
September 1, 2007
Kenneth Kronenberg seeks the definitive source for “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a…
Chapter & Verse
July 1, 2007
Steve Plank hopes to learn who said (as he puts it), “We should each conduct our lives in such a way that if everyone were to do the same…
Chapter & Verse
May 1, 2007
~Who proclaimed that photography is to painting as water is to wine? ~Who protested, “They have taken away all our liberties—now…
Chapter & Verse
March 1, 2007
Wayles Brown asks whether anyone can provide an exact source and the precise wording for a comment often attributed to Oscar Wilde: “The…
Chapter & Verse
November 1, 2006
Martha Neumann hopes to learn if Freud indeed made a comment often attributed to him: Immortality is being loved by many anonymous people. Ann…
Chapter & Verse
September 1, 2006
Wayles Brown seeks to locate a story about a boy of English and Hindu parentage who encounters the word “Eurasian” and asks his…