Today’s WOTD – 1 September 2012

virago

[vi-rah-goh, -rey-]

noun, plural viragoes, viragos.
1. a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew.
2. Archaic . a woman of strength or spirit

Synonyms
1. scold, nag, termagant, harpy, Xanthippe.

Today’s aphorism

‘In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.’

Edgar Rice Burroughs

On this day

1 September 1875 – birth of Edgar Rice Burroughs, American science fiction author: Tarzan, Mars series (on which the 2012 movie ‘John Carter‘ was based).

1 September 1939 – official commencement date of World War II, when Germany invaded Poland.