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Harry Blackmun Biography

Harry BlackmunAge: 90 retired Supreme Court justice whose conservative stance shifted to the left during his 24-year tenure. Appointed to the post in 1970 by Richard Nixon, he later became…

Harry Kemp: Blind

BlindHarry KempThe Spring blew trumpets of color; Her Green sang in my brain — I heard a blind man groping "Tap — tap" with his cane;I pitied him in his blindness; But can I boast, "I see"?…

Harry Hay Biography

activistBorn: April 7, 1912Birthplace: Worthing, EnglandDied: October 24, 2002 Harry Hay was born to American parents Margaret and Harry, Sr. in Worthing, England.…

Katherine Harris Biography

Katherine HarrisFlorida's secretary of state and co-chairwoman of George W. Bush's presidential campaign in FloridaBorn: April 5, 1957Birthplace: Key West, Fla. Katherine Harris undoubtedly…

Brewer's: Blind Harry

A Scotch minstrel of the fifteenth century. His epic of Sir William Wallace runs to 11,861 lines. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Blind HedgeBlind Ditch A B…

Brewer's: Bluff Harry

or Hal. Henry VIII., so called from his bluff and burly manners (1491, 1509-1547.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BlunderboreBluff A B C D E F G H I…

Brewer's: Box Harry

(To ), among commercial travellers, is to shirk the table d'hôte and take something substantial for tea, in order to save expense. Halliwell says, “to take care after having been…

Brewer's: Old Harry

The devil. (See Harry.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Old HumphreyOld Hands A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…

Brewer's: Harry Soph

A student at Cambridge who has “declared” for Law or Physic, and wears a full-sleeve gown. The word is a corruption of the Greek Heri-sophos (more than a Soph or common second-year student…

Brewer's: Great Harry

(The). A man-of-war built by Henry VII., the first of any size constructed in England. It was burnt in 1553. (See Henry Grace De Dieu.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…