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1975 Tony Awards
PlayEquusMusicalThe WizActors—PlayJohn Kani and Winston Ntshona, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The IslandActress—PlayEllen Burstyn, Same Time, Next YearSupporting or Featured Actor—PlayFrank…1970–1971 Obie Awards
Best American PlayJohn Guare, House of Blue LeavesBest Foreign PlayAthol Fugard, Boesman and LenaDerek Walcott, Dream on Monkey MountainHeathcote Williams, AC/DCDistinguished PlaysEd Bullins…Brewer's: Balclutha
(The tower of), in Ossian, is Dun-dee, where Dun means a tower. Those circular buildings so common in the Orkney and Shetland Islands, the Hebrides, and all the north of Scotland are duns…Brewer's: Dedlock
(Sir Leicester). An honourable and truthful gentleman, but of such fossilised ideas that no “tongue of man” could shake his prejudices. (Charles Dickens: Bleak House.) Source: Dictionary…Brewer's: Deev-Binder
Tamnuras, King of Persia, who defeated the Deev king and the fierce Demrush, but was slain by Houndkonz, another powerful Deev. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Deer
Supposed by poets to shed tears. The drops, however, which fall from their eyes are not tears, but an oily secretion from the so-called tear-pits. A poor sequestered stag ... Did come to…Brewer's: Deerslayer
The hero of a novel so called, by F. Cooper. He is the beau-ideal of a man without cultivation—honourable in sentiment, truthful, and brave as a lion; pure of heart, and without reproach…Brewer's: Fiddle About
(To). To fiddle about a thing means to “play” business. To fiddle with one's fingers is to move them about as a fiddler moves his fingers up and down the fiddle-strings. “Mere trifling, or…Brewer's: Fiddle-faddle
It is all fiddle-faddle. Rubbishy nonsense; talk not worth attention. A ricochet word, of which we have a vast number, as “flim-flam,” “helter-skelter,” “wishy-washy,” etc. To fiddle is to…1976 Radio & Records All-Time Charts
1976 Radio & Records All-Time ChartsPop Adult“Afternoon Delight” Starland Vocal Band (Windsong)“I'd Really Love to See You” England Dan and J.F. Coley (Big Tree)“If You Leave Me Now”…Trending
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