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Brewer's: Pun and Pickpocket
He who would make a pun would pick a pocket. Dr. Johnson is generally credited with this silly dictum (1709-1784), but Dennis had said before to Purcell, “Any man who would make such an…Brewer's: Pun
is the Welsh pun, equivalent; it means a word equally applicable to two things. The application should be remote and odd in order to give piquancy to the play. (See Calembourg.) Source:…Brewer's: Cutpurse
Now called “pickpocket.” The two words are of historical value. When purses were worn suspended from a girdle, thieves cut the string by which the purse was attached; but when pockets were…Flatland: How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
by Edwin A. Abbott How the Sphere, having in vain...How, though the Sphere showed ...How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there An unspeakable horror seized me. There was a darkness;…Brewer's: Punch
from the Indian word punj (five); so called from its five ingredients- viz. spirit, water, lemon, sugar, and spice. It was introduced into England from Spain, where it is called ponche. It…Robert Bresson Biography
Robert BressonAge: 98 iconoclastic French film director and screenwriter known for his austere, spiritual films that often dealt with redemption and were driven by emotion rather than…Jack Wild
Jack Wild was still a teenager when he was nominated for an Academy Award for Oliver!, the 1968 film of the old Charles Dickens tale. Wild played the Artful Dodger, the puckish and top-hatted urchin…Dutch Schultz Biography
Dutch Schultz(Arthur Flegenheimer)mobsterBorn: 8/6/1902Birthplace: Bronx, New York Dutch Schultz is one of the best known New York mobsters of the prohibition era. After dropping out of…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Poet's Doom
The Reform School Board The Noser and the Note The Poet's Doom AN Object was walking along the King's highway wrapped in meditation and with little else on, when he suddenly found…Brewer's: Minuit
(2 syl.). “Enfants de la messe de minuit, ” pickpockets. Cotgrave gives “night-walking rakehells, such as haunt these nightly rites only to rob and play the knaves.” Source: Dictionary…Trending
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