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Brewer's: Catch Me at It!
Most certainly I shall never do what you say. “ `Catch me going to London!' exclaimed Vixen.” —Miss Braddon: Vixen. Catch the Speaker's Eye (To). To find the eye of the Speaker fixed on…Brewer's: Noli me Tangere
Touch me not. The words Christ used to Mary Magdalene after His resurrection. It is the motto of the Order of the Thistle. A plant of the genus impatiens. The seed vessels consist of one…Brewer's: Too Many for [Me]
or One too many for [me]. More than a match. “Il est trop fort pour moi.” “The Irishman is cunning enough; but we shall be too many for him.” —Mrs. Edgeworth. Source: Dictionary of…Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Everything you ever wanted to know about Major-League ballparks by Mike Morrison and Melissa Sogard Fenway Park was built in 1912 by Osborn Archietects & Engineers. Yankee Stadium was built…Spinks, Leon, Jr.
(Encyclopedia) Spinks, Leon, Jr. 1953-2021, American boxer, b. St. Louis, Mo. Spinks began boxing at age 13, dropping out of high school in his junior…metaphor
(Encyclopedia) metaphor [Gr.,=transfer], in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which one class of things is referred to as if it belonged to another class. Whereas a simile states that A is like B, a…Doolittle, Hilda
(Encyclopedia) Doolittle, Hilda, pseud. H. D., 1886–1961, American poet, b. Bethlehem, Pa., educated at Bryn Mawr. After 1911 she lived abroad, marrying Richard Aldington in 1913. In England, under…Gannett, Henry
(Encyclopedia) Gannett, HenryGannett, Henrygănˈət [key], 1846–1914, American geographer, b. Bath, Maine, grad. Harvard (B.S., 1869; M.E., 1870). His first work as a topographer was on the Hayden…Brendel, Alfred
(Encyclopedia) Brendel, AlfredBrendel, Alfredbrĕndĕlˈ [key], 1931–, Austrian pianist, b. Moravia (now in the Czech Republic). He debuted publicly in 1948 and, after winning a prize at the Busoni…Carrier, Willis Haviland
(Encyclopedia) Carrier, Willis Haviland, 1876–1950, American engineer who played a key role in inventing air conditioning, b. Angola, N.Y., grad. Cornell (M.E. 1901). Working for the Buffalo Forge Co…Trending
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