Word of the Day: “Assignation”
Assignation (noun): "appointment, meeting, especially a secret rondezvous."
Heard: In a remarkable display of tact by my friend Sara Ivry during an interview for Nextbook with Tania Grossinger. Ms. Grossinger grew up at Grossinger’s, the famed Catskills resort. "Assignation" referred to the secret doings of the guests.
Ms. Grossinger has written a memoir called Growing up at Grossinger’s about the resort’s golden age in the 1940s and 50s.