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Brewer's: Lip

(Anglo-Saxon, lippe, the lip.) To curl the lip. To express contempt or disgust with the mouth. To hang the lip. To drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. Thus Helen explains why…

Brewer's: Thone

(1 syl.) or Thonis. Governor of a province of Egypt. His wife was Polydamnia. It is said by post-Homeric poets that Paris took Helen to this province, and that Polydamnia gave her a drug…

Brewer's: Crouchmas

from the Invention of the Cross to St. Helen's Day (May 3rd to August 18th). Not Christ-mas, but Cross-mas. Rogation Sunday is called Crouchmas Sunday, and Rogation week is called…

Brewer's: Deans

(Effie), in Scott's Heart of Midlothian, is Helen Walker. She is abandoned by her lover, Geordie Robertson [Staunton], and condemned for child-murder. Jeanie Deans. Half-sister of Effie…

1932 Olympics Leading Medal Winners

Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right. Men No   Sport G-S-B 4 István Pelle, HUN Gymnastics 2-2-0 4 Giulio Gaudini,…

1998 Solheim Cup: Overall Records

Team and Individual match play combinedUnited States W-L-HDottie Pepper4-0-0Pat Hurst3-1-0Juli Inkster3-1-0Sherry Steinhauer3-1-0Kelly Robbins3-1-0Meg Mallon2-1-1Rosie Jones2-1-0Brandie…

2000 Solheim Cup: Overall Records

Team and Individual match play combinedUnited States W-L-HKelly Robbins3-1-0Pat Hurt2-1-1Becky Iverson2-2-0Brandie Burton1-1-1Dottie Pepper1-1-1Julie Inkster1-2-1Meg Mallon1-2-1Rosie Jones1-…

Brewer's: Rowland

(See Roland.) Childe Rowland. Youngest brother of the “fair burd Helen.” Guided by Merlin, he undertook to bring back his sister from Elf-land, whither the fairies had carried her, and…

Lights! Camera! <i>Disaster!</i>

The greatest disaster films of all time by Beth Rowen Related Links DisastersDisaster QuizShips and ShipwrecksThe disaster movie genre flourished in the 1970s, long before effects became major…