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heaves

(Encyclopedia) heaves, chronic pulmonary emphysema in horses. Heaves is characterized by the disruption of normal lung tissue with resultant loss of the lung's elastic recoil. A forced expiratory…

Lehmann, John

(Encyclopedia) Lehmann, JohnLehmann, Johnlāˈmən [key], 1907–89, English poet, editor, and publisher. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he began working at Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth…

Brewer's: Dusty

Well, it is none so dusty, or Not so dusty. I don't call it bad; rather smart. Here dusty is the opposite of neat, and neat = spruce. “None so dusty” or “Not so dusty” means therefore, Not…

Dusty Springfield

Name at birth: Mary O'BrienMary O'Brien began singing with a group called The Lana Sisters, then formed the Springfields with her brother. They had a few hits in the U.K., but in 1963 she embarked…

Brewer's: Answer

is the Old English and-swaru, verb and swar-ian or swerian, where And is the preposition = the Latin re in re-spond-eo. (See Swear.) To answer like a Norman , that is, evasively. “We say…

Brewer's: Dusty-foot

(See Pie Poudre.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894DutchDusty A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…

Dusty Springfield Biography

Dusty Springfield(Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien)Born: 4/16/1939Birthplace: Hampstead, London, England soulful British singer whose hits included '60s songs “Son of a Preacher Man”…

anagram

(Encyclopedia) anagram [Gr.,=something read backward], rearrangement of the letters of a word or words to make another word or other words. A famous Latin anagram was an answer made out of a question…

Dusty Springfield 1999 Deaths

Dusty Springfield(Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien)Age: 59 soulful British singer whose hits included '60s songs “Son of a Preacher Man” and “Wishin' and Hopin'.” She was honored by…

Sara Teasedale: The Answer

The AnswerWhen I go back to earth And all my joyous body Puts off the red and white That once had been so proud, If men should pass above With false and feeble pity, My dust will find a voice…