So Delightfully "Square"

One of the highlights of my sixty-first birthday celebration was when Tricia suggested we needed a "break" on our drive to Palm Springs, and we turned in at McDonald's. I had heard for years from our girls that the "big Mac" was really something "special," and while I've often credited Mrs. Nixon with making the best hamburgers in the world, we are both convinced that McDonald's runs a close second. ... The next time the cook has a night off we will know where to go for fast service, cheerful hospitality—and probably one of the best food buys in America.

—President Richard Nixon to McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, 1974

It's the mental activity of women that gets me every time.

The modern civilizations differ from the ancient civilizations mainly in these five elements: steam power, the periodical press, the telegraph, the sciences, and the mental activity of women. When civilization, plus these five factors, invades any nation, it must carry nervousness and nervous diseases along with it.

—George Beard, American Nervousness (1881)

Wizard

Now we can cross the Shifting Sands.

—L. Frank Baum's last words, 1919