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Brewer's: Lip

(Anglo-Saxon, lippe, the lip.) To curl the lip. To express contempt or disgust with the mouth. To hang the lip. To drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. Thus Helen explains why…

1932 Olympics Leading Medal Winners

Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right. Men No   Sport G-S-B 4 István Pelle, HUN Gymnastics 2-2-0 4 Giulio Gaudini,…

1998 Solheim Cup: Overall Records

Team and Individual match play combinedUnited States W-L-HDottie Pepper4-0-0Pat Hurst3-1-0Juli Inkster3-1-0Sherry Steinhauer3-1-0Kelly Robbins3-1-0Meg Mallon2-1-1Rosie Jones2-1-0Brandie…

Brewer's: Blind Department

(The ). In Post Office parlance, means that department where letters with incoherent, insufficient, or illegible addresses are examined, and, if possible, put upon the proper track for…

Brewer's: Elecampane and Amrida

Sweetmeats which confer immortality (Latin, helenium campana ) or inula campana) Pliny tells us the plant so called sprang from Helen's tears. The sweetmeat so called is a coarse sugar-…

1958 Tony Awards

PlaySunrise at CampobelloMusicalThe Music ManActor—PlayRalph Bellamy, Sunrise at CampobelloActress—PlayHelen Hayes, Time RememberedSupporting or Featured Actor—PlayHenry Jones, Sunrise at…

2000 Solheim Cup: Overall Records

Team and Individual match play combinedUnited States W-L-HKelly Robbins3-1-0Pat Hurt2-1-1Becky Iverson2-2-0Brandie Burton1-1-1Dottie Pepper1-1-1Julie Inkster1-2-1Meg Mallon1-2-1Rosie Jones1-…

Brewer's: Thone

(1 syl.) or Thonis. Governor of a province of Egypt. His wife was Polydamnia. It is said by post-Homeric poets that Paris took Helen to this province, and that Polydamnia gave her a drug…

Lights! Camera! <i>Disaster!</i>

The greatest disaster films of all time by Beth Rowen Related Links DisastersDisaster QuizShips and ShipwrecksThe disaster movie genre flourished in the 1970s, long before effects became major…