While some islanders have gone over to the technological dark side and carry around mysterious tablet devices, there is still a certain book-bosomed populace that goes delirious at the prospect of tables piled with deliciously affordable packets of paper, neatly bound. It has some modern use (though not enough to be entered into our dictionaries): And now he returns to the scene of chaos and horror to explore-and. Workplace satire sans the trite cliches Hooray for Mike Judge I didnt think there would be a way to make fun of office life without merely being a living. Sir Walter Scott, “The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” 1805 Walter Lords A Night to Remember was a landmark work that recounted the harrowing events of April 14, 1912, when the British ocean liner RMS Titanic went down in the North Atlantic Ocean, a book that inspired a classic movie of the same name. Author Walter Lord's acclaimed classic A Night to Remember is considered the definitive written work on the TITANIC tragedy. Walter Lord graduated from Princeton University in 1939, and went to London in 1942 as part of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). A Night to Remember: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Sinking of the Titanic (. He also wrote on a variety of interesting historical events. Explore books by Walter Lord with our selection at. The sense of bosom in play here is the verb meaning 'to enclose or carry in the bosom.'Īway in speed Lord Cranstoun rode / The Goblin-Page behind abode / His lord's command he ne'er withstood, / Though small his pleasure to do good, / As the corslet off he took, / The dwarf espied the mighty Book! / Much he marveled a knight of pride, / Like a book-bosomed priest should ride: / He thought not to search or stanch the wound, / Until the secret he had found. He is best remembered for his 1955 book A Night to Remember, about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. This word, apparently coined by Sir Walter Scott, is said to mean 'carrying a book at all times.' If you love books, certainly you've been book-bosomed at times in your life.

The Night Lives On by Walter Lord