Danny Manning and Edwin Moses quickly come to mind for fans who want American athletes to strike gold this summer.

But we thought these names were pretty and that they reflected good literary taste. The pets were called by their euphonyms only when visitors were to be properly impressed; consequently, they paid no attention to the meaningless titles.

Just conceivably even logomaniacal Poe did not always know what his words or phrases meant. But the stronger indication is that he knowingly overstretched that “immemorial year” for the sufficient reason that it sounded just right.

I spent five days in conversing with many others of the ancient learned. I saw most of the first Roman emperors. I prevailed on the governor to call up Heliogabalus's cooks to dress us a dinner, but they could not show us much of their skill, for want of materials.