Friday, August 20, 2021

perorate \PUR-uh-rayt\, intransitive verb:

1. To conclude or sum up a long discourse.
2. To speak or expound at length; to declaim.

Perorate comes from Latin perorare "to speak at length or to the end," from per-, "through, throughout," + orare, "to speak."

 

friendly review 

• A positive review you give to a movie, book, TV series or CD that you don't like but which a friend has recommended to you, usually because you don't want to hurt their feelings.

Rod: I watched that movie The Departed last night which John lent me. 
Tom: What did you think? 
Rod: I hated it. 
Tom: Oh boy, he loves that movie. What did you tell him? 
Rod: I told him it was great. 
Tom: You gave it a friendly review, huh? 
Rod: Yeah, you know what he’s like.

 

Trivia 

At what depth are oceans in total darkness, with absolutely no sunlight penetrating from above?

• Below 3,280 feet.

History

• 1812 Overture: Tchaikovsky's classic overture debuted in Moscow, commemorating Russia's defense against Napoleon (1880; Gregorian date)
  

  
• RAF: UK prime minister Winston Churchill saluted his country's air force with the statement, ''Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" (1940)
• Economic Opportunity Act 0f 1964: LBJ signed the act — part of his Great Society policies — that would give life to programs like Head Start
• Prague Spring: brief period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia ended when the country was invaded by Warsaw Pact troops and tanks (1968)
• Voyager 2: space probe left Earth to tour Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune; it continues to transmit data as it leaves the solar system (1977)

Birthdays

• Bernardo O’Higgins 1778
• Emily Bronte 1818
• Benjamin Harrison (U.S.) 1833
• Edgar Guest 1881
• H.P. Lovecraft 1890 - author / horror / Cthulhu
  
• Van Johnson 1916
• Walter Bernstein 1919
• Jacqueline Susan 1921
• Jim Reeves 1924
• Frank Rosolino 1926
• Joya Sherrill 1927
• Don King 1931
• Frank Capp-Pierce (Capp-Pierce Juggernaut) 1931
• Ron Paul 1935  - libertarian
• Justin Tubb 1935
• Sam Melville 1936
• Isaac Hayes 1942
• Rahiv Ghandi (India) 1944
• Connie Chung 1946
• Jim Pankow 1947 - Musician (Chicago)
• Robert Plant 1948 - Musician (Led Zeppelin)
• Phyl Lynott 1951 - Musician (Thin Lizzy)
• John Hiatt 1952
• Michael Jeter 1952
• Doug Fieger 1952 - Musician (The Knack)
• Rudy Gatlin 1952 - Musician (The Gatlin Brothers)
• Peter Horton 1953
• Al Roker 1954 - Television personality
• Quinn Buckner 1954
• Jay Acovone 1955
• Joan Allen 1956

• James Marsters 1962
• KRS-One 1965
• Darrell Abbott 1966 - Guitarist (Pantera)
• Jonathan Ke Quan 1971
• Amy Adams 1974
• Monique Powell 1975 - Musician (Save Ferris)
• Demi Lovato 1992 - Actress and singer