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Chauncey Judd: The Judd Family

Religious Aspects of War Puritan Training The Judd Family The family to which our young friend, Chauncey Judd, belonged was descended from one of the oldest and most respectable in…

1955 Tony Awards

PlayThe Desperate HoursMusicalThe Pajama GameActor—PlayAlfred Lunt, QuadrilleActress—PlayNancy Kelly, The Bad SeedSupporting or Featured Actor—PlayFrancis L. Sullivan, Witness for the…

Presidential Trivia

Who was the only bachelor to lead the nation? Presidents Who Were Related to Each Other John Adams was the father of John Quincy Adams. James Madison and Zachary Taylor were second cousins…

Brewer's: Lily Maid of Astolat

(See Elaine.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Lim HayLily of the Valley 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 Related…

Brewer's: Bottle

Looking for a needle in a bottle of hay. Looking for a very small article amidst a mass of other things. Bottle is a diminutive of the French botte, a bundle; as botte de foin, a bundle of…

Brewer's: Look not a Gift Horse in the Mouth

“Noli dentes equi inspicere donati. ” Do not examine a gift too critically. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Look One Way and Row AnotherLook for a Needle in…

Brewer's: Hayston

(Frank). The laird of Bucklaw, afterwards laird of Girnington. (SirWalterScott: Bride of Lammermoor.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894HaywardHay, Hagh A B…

Brewer's: Hayward

A keeper of the cattle or common herd of a village or parish. The word hay means “hedge,” and this herdsman was so called because he had “ward” of the “hedges” also. (Anglo-Saxon, heg, hay…