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Brewer's: Break up Housekeeping

(To). To discontinue keeping a separate house. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Break with OneBreak your Back A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…

Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow

(Encyclopedia) Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow, 1842–1911, American chemist, educator, and organizer of the home economics movement, b. Dunstable, Mass., grad. Vassar, 1870. In 1870 she began the…

PREFACE SERMON

PREFACE.   SERMON. Psalm CXLIV: 12.- “That our daughters may be as corner-stones.“ Last Sunday, I spoke of the Domestic Function of Woman-what she may do for the higher development of the…

Hearst, William Randolph

(Encyclopedia) Hearst, William Randolph, 1863–1951, American journalist and publisher, b. San Francisco. A flamboyant, highly controversial figure, Hearst was nonetheless an intelligent and extremely…

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

(Encyclopedia) Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811–96, American novelist and humanitarian, b. Litchfield, Conn. With her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, she stirred the conscience of Americans concerning slavery…

The Congress of Women: Cookery

by Mrs. David A. Lincoln Woman's Place in LettersPower and Purposes of WomenCookery[1] Mrs. Mary J. Lincoln was born in South Attleboro, Mass. Her father was the Rev. John B. M. Bailey, of…

Brewer's: Break your Back

(To). Make you bankrupt. The metaphor is from carrying burdens on the back. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Break up HousekeepingBreak the Ice A B C D E…

Brewer's: Break with One

(To). To cease from intercourse. “What cause have I given him to break with me?” —Florence Marryat. Breakers Ahead Hidden danger at hand. Breakers in the open sea always announce sunken…