It Came From the Basement: "Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms"

The latest in a new series with which I'm trying to reinvigorate the DaveTronik 2000 blog. In these posts, I will write about an item or items currently stored in the unfinished side of my basement. Many of them have been stashed in boxes for decades, waiting for this moment.

This is a book that Super Sam gave me during my intership at my hometown weekly newspaper, the Farmington Valley Herald, during the summer of 1986.

"Who was Super Sam?" you ask. His full name was Louis H. Sampliner, a...