Althouse: "Supreme Court justice who once said 'I am a New Yorker, and 7 a.m. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it."

January 3, 2016

"Supreme Court justice who once said 'I am a New Yorker, and 7 a.m. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it."

That was a clue in today's NYT crossword today. Perhaps, "I am a New Yorker" is enough to let you guess the answer if you know the number of squares. But it's not. There are 7 squares, and there's a slightly complicated trick to the puzzle, which is explained here — along with the answer — at Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle."

I tried to find the remark in context. Who was — spoiler alert — she responding to? Did somebody say he got to work at 7 a.m.? It's rather unGoogleable right now, because this one crossword clue is hogging the first couple pages of hits.

9 comments:

traditionalguy said...: Sweet Sonia is Spanish. They like to rest when work is done.; 1/3/16, 12:18 PM
MisterBuddwing said...: OK, without looking or Googling: Justice Cardoso? Or Justice Douglas? Or is this a current member, like Chief Justice Roberts? (Seven letters, right?); 1/3/16, 12:23 PM
MisterBuddwing said...: Oh, never mind.; 1/3/16, 1:05 PM
Quaestor said...: Rufus Wheeler Peckham; 1/3/16, 2:13 PM
Jonas said...: You can include -crossword in your Google search to remove all of the posts referring to the crossword puzzle.; 1/4/16, 1:36 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Thanks, Jonas. I did not know how to do that on Google. (I've done Lexis searches for over 30 years, where you write "and" or "and not," but I didn't know how to do the same on Google.); 1/4/16, 7:04 AM
the gold digger said...: Maybe he was the crazy upstairs neighbors who did laundry every single day at 8 a.m., the noise of which would awaken my husband. (Reasons never to live in an apartment again: neighbors.)

When my husband took the upstairs neighbors a tray of freshly-baked cookies and asked them to wait until past 8 at least on the weekend, the neighbors took the cookies and then refused to change their habits, telling him that this was not New York City, it was [upper midwest], where people get up early.; 1/4/16, 10:09 AM
Anders said...: I also wondered about the source, found this:

Lamenting her big caseload as a federal trial judge, she told law students in 1994 that she admired a colleague who went to work at 7 in the morning but that she could not do the same: "I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 am is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/04/AR2009060403265.html; 1/12/16, 3:16 PM
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