Fans of the girlish, how-to decorating magazine owned by Condé Nast were vociferous in their disappointment, posting anguished comments on design sites like Apartment Therapy, Decorno and Design Sponge (which accrued 498 remarks in just a few hours), as well as nondesign sites, like The Huffington Post.

He swore up and down that he hadn't taken the money.

To use a very unscientific term, the earth is squishable.

'I'll set my foot in a bottomless boat, / And swim to the sea-ground.'