10 May 2014
sashay
[sa-shey]
verb (used without object) Informal.
1. to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly: She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.
2. to chassé in dancing.
Origin:
1830–40, Americanism; metathetic variant of chassé
Can be confused: sachet, sashay, Sasha.
Anagram
has say
Today’s aphorism
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
– Bono
On this day
10 May 1837 – the Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail and unemployment reaches record levels.
10 May 1893 – the Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
10 May 1908 – Mother’s Day first celebrated. Andrews Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia in the United States becomes the first place in the world to hold the first official Mother’s Day celebration. 407 women were in attendance that day. In 1872 Julie Ward Howe suggested a national holiday to celebrate peace and motherhood. At that time, many local groups held their own celebration of motherhood, but most were religious gatherings. Another influential figure was Anna Jarvis who campaigned for a national holiday following the death of her mother in 1905. Her mother, social activist Ann Jarvis used to hold an annual celebration, Mother’s Friendship Day, to help ease the pain of the US Civil War. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared Mother’s Day a national holiday on the second Sunday of May. Anna Jarvis was arrested at a Mother’s Day celebration when she tried to stop the selling of flowers. She stated, ‘I wanted it to be a day of sentiment not of profit‘.
10 May 1924 – Edgard J. Hoover appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A position he holds until his death in 1972.
10 May 1933 – in Germany, Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
10 May 1941 – Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess, parachutes into Scotland to negotiate a peace settlement between the UK and Germany. Hess was arrested and convicted of crimes against peace and spent the remainder of his life in jail. He died in 1987.
10 May 1954 – Bill Haley and the Comets release Rock Around the Clock, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
10 May 1960 – birth of Bono (Paul David Hewson), activist and Irish singer-songwriter with U2.
10 May 1994 – Nelson Mandela inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president.
10 May 2003 – The Golden Gumboot opens in Tully, North Queensland. It stands 7.9m tall and represents the record annual rainfall of 7900mm that Tully received in1950. Tully is officially Australia’s wettest town.