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Florence Wilkinson: Students

StudentsFlorence WilkinsonJohn Brown and Jeanne at Fontainebleau — 'T was Toussaint, just a year ago; Crimson and copper was the glow Of all the woods at Fontainebleau. They peered into that…

1957 Tony Awards

PlayLong Day's Journey Into NightMusicalMy Fair LadyActor—PlayFredric March, Long Day's Journey Into NightActress—PlayMargaret Leighton, Separate TablesSupporting or Featured Actor—PlayFrank…

Brewer's: Cameronians

The strictest sect of Scotch Presbyterians, organised in 1680, by Richard Cameron, who was slain in battle at Aird's Moss in 1680. He objected to the alliance of Church and State. In 1876…

Brewer's: Lemster Ore

Fine wool, of which Leominster carpets are made. A bank of moss, Spongy and swelling, and far more Soft, than the finest Lemster ore. Herrick: Oberon's Palace. Source: Dictionary of…

Brewer's: Old Mortality

The itinerant antiquary in Sir Walter Scott's novel of that name. It is said to be a picture of Robert Paterson, a Scotchman, who busied himself in clearing the moss from the tombstones of…

Brewer's: Mushroom

(an archaic form is mushrump). (French, mousseron, a white mushroom; Latin, muscus, moss.) “Vocatur fungus muscarum, eo quod in lacte pulverizatus interflcit muscas.” —Albertus Magnus, vii…

Professional Football: 1998-99 Season Recap

Over and Out You're 39 years old and you've just quarterbacked your team to two consecutive Super Bowl victories. What could possibly be left for an encore? According to John Elway, absolutely…