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Brewer's: Barber's Pole

The gilt knob at the end represents a brass basin, which is sometimes actually suspended on the pole. The basin has a notch cut in it to fit the throat, and was used for lathering…

Brewer's: Barricade

(3 syl.) To block up. The term rose in France in 1588, when Henri de Guise returned to Paris in defiance of the king's order. The king sent for his Swiss Guards, and the Parisians tore up…

William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act I

Act IScene IRome. A streetEnter Flavius, Marullus, and certain CommonersFlaviusHence! home, you idle creatures get you home: Is this a holiday? what! know you not, Being mechanical, you ought…

Annual Awards: College Baseball, 2002 Season

CWS Seeds: 1. Notre Dame (49-16); 2. Clemson (52-15); 3. Georgia Tech (51-14); 4. Rice (52-12); 5. Texas (53-15); 6. South Carolina (53-16); 7. Nebraska (47-19); 8. Stanford (45-16). Bracket One…

Amy Lowell: Part Second

Part Second Herr Concert-Meister Altgelt played, And the four strings of his violin Were spinning like bees on a day in Spring. The notes rose into the wide sun-mote Which…

Amy Lowell: Towns in Colour

Towns in ColourRed SlippersThompson's Lunch Room — Grand Central StationAn Opera HouseAfternoon Rain in State StreetAn Aquarium

Poems: London

by WilliamBlakeThe Little VagabondThe Human AbstractLondon I wandered through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow, A mark in every face I meet, Marks…

Sara Teasedale: In a Restaurant

In a RestaurantThe darkened street was muffled with the snow, The falling flakes had made your shoulders white, And when we found a shelter from the night Its glamor fell upon us like a…

Poem: Morning at the Window

Poem 16 Poem 18 Morning at the Window They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, And along the trampled edges of the street I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids…