The trick to eating catheads was to get the butter on them before they got cold—then they were delicious. When, unluckily, they were allowed to get cold, they tended to a gooeyness, not unlike a wad of tired gum.

Now his elderly widow, stringing telegraph wires around their Paris apartment and experimenting for five days solid, quickly developed a telegraphic version of Solresol in time to present it to the Minister of the Interior.

He was visibly upset while reading the news live on air about the school shooting.

A late-afternoon wine-and-cheese offering is served on a beautiful midfloor dining area spilling onto an outdoor terrace […]