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Old wives' tale. An " old wives' tale " is a colloquial expression referring to spurious or superstitious claims. They can be said sometimes to be a type of urban legend, said to be passed down by older women to a younger generation. Such tales are considered superstition, folklore or unverified claims with exaggerated and/or inaccurate details.
The Old Wives' Tale is a play by George Peele first printed in England in 1595. [ 1] The play has been identified as the first English work to satirize the romantic dramas popular at the time. Although only the titles of most of these popular works have survived, they seem to be unrelated composites of popular romantic and fairy-tale motifs of ...
The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Bursley ...
12 old wives’ tales about having a boy: You didn’t experience morning sickness in early pregnancy. ... if you believe the old legends. You don’t look quite as good as normal during pregnancy.
Francois G. Durand/Getty. Susan Wojcicki. Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube, has died. She was 56. Wojcicki died of lung cancer, after living with the disease for two years, on Friday, Aug ...
Valencia Street, Mission Dolores, San Francisco. Old Wives Tales (also Old Wives' Tales) was a feminist bookstore in the Mission Dolores neighborhood of San Francisco. [1] It was founded on October 31, 1976, by Carol Seajay and Paula Wallace, a lesbian couple. [2] It closed permanently in October 1995. [3] [4]
We're more than 30 years apart, as she's 72 and I'm 38, we come from different parts of the country, and we have different religious beliefs and racial backgrounds. But we also have a lot in ...
Old Wives has been a ghost town for several decades and while the town briefly prospered, The Great Depression and severe droughts in 1937, 1951 and 1959 began an irreversible downward spiral. Many businesses closed in the 1950s and 60s. The final nail in the coffin for the community came in 1973 when the railroad was abandoned, followed by the ...