27 July 2014

qualm

[kwahm, kwawm]

noun

1. an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction:
He has no qualms about lying.
2. a sudden feeling of apprehensive uneasiness; misgiving:
a sudden qualm about the success of the venture.
3. a sudden sensation or onset of faintness or illness, especially of nausea.

Today’s aphorism

I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

– J. D. Salinger

On this day

27 July – National Sleepy-head Day – a celebration in Finland in which the last person still in bed is woken by throwing cold water over them or by throwing them in a lake or river.

27 July 1836 – founding of Adelaide, South Australia.

27 July 1935 – Yangtze River, China, floods kill up to 200,000 people.

27 July 1940 – Bugs Bunny makes his debut in the cartoon, ‘Wild Hare’.

27 July 2012 – XXX Olympiad opens in London.