And she persisted in calling me Mila after I had decreed that people should now use my full name: Sharmila.

How much longer are we English to assist foreign nations in misunderstanding us, by holding up that ridiculous lay-figure of our race known by the style and title of John Bull?

Again, the double Lobelia is not to be trusted in a row where uniformity of colour is a object. … Its place is pincushioned among such delicate flowers as Ivy-leaved Pelargoniums and Duke of Edinburgh, the grand tufts of flowers having a chaste and charming effect among the beautiful foliage and beautiful flowers of such delicate colours, and the failures being little observed. The word is used to mean that the lobelia is planted amongst other flowering plants, like pins on a pincushion.]

Diane Watson has had a distinguished career in education and politics, and last year was elected to the House of Representatives, winning 75 percent of the vote in her Congressional district.