It's not true that no words rhyme with orange.  There was a man -- I'm not kidding -- named Henry Honeychurch Gorringe.  He was a naval commander who in the mid-19th century oversaw the transport of Cleopatra's Needle to New York's Central Park.  Pouncing on this event, the poet Arthur Guiterman wrote: 

In Sparkhill buried lies a man of mark
Who brought the Obelisk to Central Park,
Redoubtable Commander H.H. Gorringe,
Whose name supplies the long-sought rhyme for orange.

From:  Eric Shackle

The "Tom Swift" boys adventure books were published by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, originally from 1910 to the early 1940s.  Most were titled "Tom Swift and the [fantastic invention]", Tom being a very clever and inventive lad.  The books were quite popular in their time. There was, however, a strong tendency for the dialogue to be of the form "[some sentence or other]", said Tom [some adverb or another].  Some few years ago there was a craze for "Tom Swifties", jokes in which, typically, a phrase or sentence was followed by "said Tom _______", where the blank represents an adverb or adverbial phrase that makes the sentence into a joke.

Here are a few "classic" ones:
"This is the back end of the ship," said Tom sternly.
"We just struck oil, and it's spewing all over the place," Tom gushed.
"You'll have to tell me what groceries to get," said Tom listlessly.

And here are a few made up by me:
"I don't have any music by that Hungarian composer," said Tom Lisztlessly.
"The streets of Paris are crowded," said Tom ruefully.
"Eins, zwei, drei, fuenf," said Tom fearlessly (vier-lessly),
"You missed the first, second, third, and fifth questions on the test," said Tom forthrightly.

From:  Sam Long 

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Cleopatra's Needle is the popular name for each of three ancient Egyptian obelisks re-erected in London, Paris, and New York City during the nineteenth century.  Read the stories and see graphics at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra's_Needle

reckless adj.  Old English receleas "careless, thoughtless, heedless," earlier reccileas, from *rece, recce "care, heed," from reccan "to care" . The same affixed form is in German ruchlos, Dutch roekeloos "wicked."  Root verb reck (Old English reccan) is passing into obscurity.  http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=reckless

reckful  adj.  from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License  Full of careful heed or attention; careful; cautious.  https://www.wordnik.com/words/reckful

Abstract art can be a painting or sculpture (including assemblage ) that does not depict a person, place or thing in the natural world -- even in an extremely distorted or exaggerated way.  Therefore, the subject of the work is based on what you see:  color, shapes, brushstrokes, size, scale and, in some cases, the process.  Abstract art began in 1911 with such works as Picture with a Circle (1911) by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944).  Kandinsky believed that colors provoke emotions.  Red was lively and confident; green was peaceful with inner strength; blue was deep and supernatural; yellow could be warm, exciting, disturbing or totally bonkers; and white seemed silent but full of possibilities.  He also assigned instrument tones to go with each color:  Red sounded like a trumpet; green sounded like a middle-position violin; light blue sounded like flute; dark blue sounded like a cello, yellow sounded like a fanfare of trumpets; and white sounded like the pause in a harmonious melody.  These analogies to sounds came from Kandinsky's appreciation for music, especially that by the contemporary Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951).  Kandinsky's titles often refer to the colors in the composition or to music, for example "improvisation."

http://arthistory.about.com/od/glossary_a/a/a_abstract_art.htm

Read about some major Roosevelt sites, including birthplaces, family homes, vacation retreats and national parks and monuments from Maine to North Dakota. The list describes includes four places for Theodore Roosevelt and six for Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt.   Beth J. Harpaz  http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/travel/275198901.html

Always an event people flock outside to see at night, this Wednesday, October 8, there will be a total eclipse of the Moon seen from several western states.  This will be the last eclipse of the year 2014.  Visible by the naked eye, the show will start at 1:15 a.m.  Until 6:33 a.m. Pacific time.  A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon and Earth’s shadow covers the Moon.  It’s a slow, gradual procession especially during a full Moon.  In a Blood Moon scenario like this, the colors of the Moon will look rusty red due to the way dust and light are filtered through Earth’s atmosphere.  Karan Mos  http://www.capitalwired.com/october-declared-blood-moon-month-seeable-in-australia-during-total-lunar-eclipse/23583/

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1200  October 6, 2014  On this date in 1683, German immigrant families founded Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.  On this date in 1876, the American Library Association was founded.