TARADIDDLE/TARRADIDDLE  noun  fib, story, tale, a trivial lie, baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, pretentious or silly talk or writing.  https://www.definitions.net/definition/taradiddle

Lurene Tuttle (1907–1986) was an American character actress and acting coach, who made the transition from vaudeville to radio, and later films and television.  Her most enduring impact was as one of network radio's more versatile actresses.  Often appearing in 15 shows per week, comedies, dramas, thrillers, soap operas, and crime dramas, she became known as the "First Lady of Radio".  On radio's The Adventures of Sam Spade she played just about every female role as well as Spade's secretary Effie Perrine.  She appeared in such shows as The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and concurrently appeared on The Great Gildersleeve as the niece Marjorie Forrester.  Tuttle had regular roles in such shows as Brenthouse, Dr. Christian, Duffy's Tavern, One Man's Family, The Red Skelton Show (as Junior's mother and as Daisy June, roles that she shared with Harriet Nelson), Hollywood Hotel, and Those We Love.  Tuttle played the swallow in "The Happy Prince", an adaption of Oscar Wilde's short story with Orson Welles and Bing Crosby (1946).  The story had been adapted for radio by Orson Welles in 1944, featuring a musical score by Bernard Herrmann.  It aired on the Philco Radio Hall of Fame broadcast on December 24, 1944 with Lureen Tuttle playing The Swallow and featuring Bing Crosby alongside Orson Welles, with Herrmann's music conducted by Victor Young.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurene_Tuttle 

"Curiosity killed the cat" is a proverb used to warn of the dangers of unnecessary investigation or experimentation.  The original form of the proverb, now little used, was "Care killed the cat".  In this instance, "care" was defined as "worry" or "sorrow for others."  The earliest form printed reference to the original proverb is attributed to the British playwright Ben Jonson in his 1598 play, Every Man in His Humour, which was performed first by William Shakespeare.  . . . Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care will kill a cat, up-tails all, and a pox on the hangman.  Shakespeare used a similar quote in his circa 1599 play, Much Ado About Nothing:  What, courage man!  What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_killed_the_cat 

OVERUSED  "Bond.  James Bond."  "I'll be back."  "Show me the money!"  "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."  "You talkin' to me?"  “I could tell you but I’d have to kill you.”  Find examples/worse offenders in cinema at https://www.shortlist.com/news/the-20-most-overused-lines-in-cinema 

The Chiffon Pie was the crown jewel of Monroe Strause’s illustrious pastry career and a genre of pie that endures to this day.  Inspired by recipes for French pastry cream, Strause developed a pie filling that incorporated stiffly beaten egg whites into a cornstarch-thickened cream.  The result was a delicate, airy filling that retained its firmness and volume, one that “stood up like a soldier on parade,” as the New York Herald Tribune later described.  The graham cracker crust he invented went on to become a foundation of American pie-making, holding up everything from cheesecake to key lime pie.  The Chiffon Pie was first sold as a novelty in Los Angeles for $0.35 a slice, or a little over $5.00 today.  The exact date of its debut is unclear, though it was most likely in 1926, at the height of the Jazz Age.  The new pie caught on quickly, becoming a pastry sensation and bringing both business and fame to its creator.  Throughout the 1930s, Strause traveled across the country, delivering lectures, consulting for restaurants, teaching classes, and more.  In Chicago, he won a pie contest against over 2,500 other desserts.  Media-savvy and with a flair for showmanship (he once baked a novelty pie 24 feet in diameter for newsboys in Los Angeles), Strause sat for interviews with newspapers across the country, bolstering his brand as a “pie engineer” and presenting himself as the country’s foremost expert on the subject.  His success didn’t just bring him fame, either.  According to one profile in The Globe and Mail, he made “a bank president’s salary out of pie.”  Rossi Anastopoulo  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/american-pie-history

Interrupted Reading is among the most compelling of French artist Camille Corot’s late figure paintings.  Corot (1796-1875) almost never exhibited these studies of the human form, preferring instead to publicize the idyllic landscapes that were his specialty.  To emphasize the private nature of Interrupted Reading, Corot enclosed his model within the protective environment of the artist’s studio.  The muse-like image of a woman reading a book was a popular one in nineteenth-century art, but Corot chose to show his model pausing, looking up from this activity.  See picture at https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81512/interrupted-reading 

Amanda Gorman is an American poet from Los Angeles, California.  In 2017, aged 19, she was named the first National Youth Poet Laureate.  On January 14, 2021, the Inaugural Committee, which was organizing the inauguration of Joe Biden, announced that Gorman would be giving a poetry reading at the event on January 20.  Gorman said that she began to write the poem in early January by reviewing poems written by past inaugural poets, who have included Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.  She also studied famous orators such as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and Winston Churchill.  Gorman also spoke with Richard Blanco and Elizabeth Alexander, two previous inaugural poets.  Joe Biden's wife, Jill Biden, asked Gorman to deliver a poem at the inauguration in December 2020.   She was informed of her selection on December 30, 2020, and asked to write a poem that contributed to the inauguration's overall theme of "America United", but without any other direction.  Gorman wrote several lines a day, and had the poem around half-way completed when the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol occurred on January 6.  Gorman told The New York Times that she had been struggling to complete the poem and worrying about whether it would be adequate.  She said that the storming marked "the day that the poem really came to life" in an interview with CBS News, as she worked the events into her poem.  Gorman finished the poem on the night of January 6.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill_We_Climb 

"The Hill We Climb"  Amanda Gorman • 2021 US Presidential Inauguration • January 2021  Poet and activist Amanda Gorman recites her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the historic inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.  Her words call for hope, unity and resilience in a time of division.  "While democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated," she says.  "In this truth, in this faith, we trust.  For while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us."  (This video is a TED "Best of the Web" pick, featuring a remarkable idea freely available on the internet.  Sourced from: C-SPAN - YouTube)  https://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_gorman_the_hill_we_climb 

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