This post feels a bit like this scene from West Wing:
I’m a little brain-dead because I’m in the midst of keyword searching 2,351 presidential addresses. Fun facts I learned today:
- Common (and popular) words ending in “city”: sagacity, electricity, capacity, tenacity, simplicity, reciprocity, publicity, veracity, incapacity, atrocity, multiplicity, scarcity
- Common (and popular) words containing “hill”: chilly, Hillary, The Hill (as in Capitol), Churchill, uphill, hillside
- And, going with the U.S. National Parks theme, Theodore Roosevelt established many state parks and had an acting secretary of state named David J. Hill (who signed the orders). Since national parks frequently consist of hills and the proclamations to designate said parks are “Done in the city of Washington, D.C.” (or at least they were in 1903), I got to know Acting Secretary Hill quite well.
I’ll conclude with, hands down, one of my favorite West Wing clips ever. Ever. Unfortunately somehow the embed function has been removed from this clip, so just click here for the beloved episode of C.J.’s root canal.
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