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Champion, Marge

(Marjorie Celeste Belcher)actress, dancerBirthplace: Los AngelesBorn: 9/2/23

Marge Schott 2004 Deaths

Marge SchottAge: 75 former owner of the Cincinnati Reds. She bought the team in 1984, becoming the first woman to buy a Major League team. Her downfall began in 1992, when colleagues…

Francesco Scavullo 2004 Deaths

Francesco ScavulloAge: 82 photographer whose often provocative portraits appeared frequently on the covers of fashion magazines, particularly Cosmopolitan. Died: Manhattan, Jan. 6, 2004Isabel…

Frances Schreuder 2004 Deaths

Frances SchreuderAge: 65 New York socialite who was convicted of first-degree murder for convincing her 17-year-old son to kill her father. She served 13 years in prison. Her son, Marc, was…

Brewer's: Kirke's Lambs

The Queen's Royal West Surrey. Called “Kirke” from Piercy Kirke, their colonel, 1682-1691; and “Lambs” from their badge, the Paschal Lamb the crest of the house of Braganza, in compliment…

Brewer's: Shatton

(Sir Piercie). In this character Sir Walter Scott has made familiar to us the euphuisms of Queen Elizabeth's age. The fashionable cavalier or pedantic fop, who assumes the high-flown style…

Brewer's: Truss his Points

(To). To tie the points of hose. The points were the cords pointed with metal, like shoe-laces, attached to doublets and hose; being very numerous, some second person was required to “…

Brewer's: Rem Acu

You have hit the mark; you have hit the nail on the head. Rem acu tetigisti (Plautus). A phrase in archery, meaning, You have hit the white, or the bull's-eye. `Rem acu “once again,'…

2004 Deaths: R - Z

Nuha al-RadiJohnny RamoneTony RandallDavid RaskinRonald ReaganChristopher ReeveDavid ReimerAlexandra RipleyLaurance RockefellerMarvin RunyonJohn SackFrançoise SaganPierre SalingerIsabel…