#Negative nancy and other names series#

There were also a lot of girls named Cathy, Debbie, Mary, and Jane. The year I was born, Robert happened to be the most popular boy’s name nationally, and there were a lot of fellow Roberts in Ipswich. It seems they managed to have ten children, leading local wags to declare that “he was Abel – and she was Thankful.” History is silent as to whether or not Thankful was truly thankful raising 10 kids, or, like the old lady in the shoe, she found there were so many she didn’t know what to do. Over in Essex, in that town’s Old Graveyard on Main Street, there is a happier story involving Abel and Thankful Story. Sadly, you also saw that many of the interred didn’t get to have names – the gravestones were inscribed “Baby” or “Infant,” sometimes right next to a mother’s marker bearing the same date, mute testimony to the rigors of 17 th and 18 th century childbirth. Growing up as I did next to the Old South Cemetery, you soon discovered that there were once lots of people named Enoch, Jeremiah, Elsie, and Ephraim.

Thanks to Charles Dickens, it didn’t get passed down. Trump called Acosta a 'rude, terrible person' at the briefing, and a White House staffer attempted to grab a microphone from Acosta's hand.ĬNN filed a lawsuit against the administration for revoking Acosta's access, but the network dropped its suit after the White House relented.Hence the comment regarding the legendary founder’s first name. In a January 2018 tweet, Trump called Acosta 'Crazy Jim Acosta.'Īnd the battle between the two came to a head in November, when the administration revoked Acosta's press credentials after a combative exchange at a press conference in which Acosta and Trump argued about a question Acosta asked. Trump has had a long-running feud with CNN's chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, who regularly asks tough questions of the administration. congressional elections, in a combination of photos at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 7, 2018. President Donald Trump during a news conference following Tuesday's midterm U.S. I told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me - until she got fired!'Ī White House staff member reaches for the microphone held by CNN's Jim Acosta as he questions U.S. Kelly came on board he told me she was a loser & nothing but problems. Nasty to people & would constantly miss meetings & work. 'I would rarely see her but heard really bad things.

#Negative nancy and other names series#

She was vicious, but not smart,' Trump wrote in a series of tweets in August 2018. She begged me for a job, tears in her eyes, I said Ok. 'Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time. 2017, called the president a 'racist,' a 'misogynist,' and a 'bigot' in her book. Manigault Newman, who left - or was fired from - the administration in Dec. Trump lashed out at former 'Apprentice' star and White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman after Manigault Newman released a tell-all book about her time in the White House, in which she paints a deeply unflattering picture of the president. Manigault Newman, who was fired in December, released a new book 'Unhinged,' about her time in the White House, Feb. President Donald Trump, center, is flanked by White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman, left, and then-Housing and Urban Development Secretary-designate Ben Carson as he speaks during a meeting on African American History Month in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.