And what do you know: the world is a lot less civilized than in his time. Holmes retired from the Court at the age of 90 years, making him the oldest Justice in the Supreme Court’s history. No, that’s not the “death” part of the title. See yesterday’s item for that.
Parker was well known as a writer, especially for The New Yorker, but also as one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table.
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.” –President Thomas Jefferson, January 1802
Related: “Some Blockett-type employees actually believe that they have received a genuine promotion; others recognize the truth.