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All-CFL Team

The All-CFL team as selected by a Football Reporters of Canada panel. Holdovers from the 1996 team are in bold type. Offense DefenseWRMilt Stegall, Win.EElfrid Payton, Mon.WRAlfred Jackson,…

1998–1999 Daytime Emmy Awards

The 1998–1999 Daytime Emmy Awards were presented on May 21, 1999, at New York City's Madison Square Garden.Outstanding Drama Series: General Hospital (ABC)Lead Actor in a Drama Series:…

2003–2004 Obie Awards

The 2003–2004 Obie Awards, honoring distinguished achievement in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions, were presented on May 17, 2004, at New York's Webster Hall.Direction: Lee…

Brewer's: Dry Lodgings

Sleeping accommodation without board. Gentlemen who take their meals at clubs live in dry lodgings. “Dry Lodginge of seven weeks, £0 4s. 1d.” —SirW.Scott: Old Mortality (Intr. Rob.…

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: Daisy-roots

like dwarf-elder berries, are said to stunt the growth; hence the fairy Milkah fed her royal foster-child on this food, that his standard might not exceed that of a pigmy. This…

Brewer's: Rashleigh Osbaldistone

An accomplished but deceitful villain, called “the scholar.” He is the youngest of the six hopeful sons of Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone. The six brothers were nicknamed “the sot,” “the…

Brewer's: Poets Laureate

appointed by letters patent. The following are sometimes included, though not appointed by letters patent:—Chaucer, Gower, John Key, Bernard, Skelton, Rob. Whittington, Richard Edwards,…

Brewer's: Vernon

mentioned by Thomson in his Summer, was Admiral Edward Vernon, who attacked Carthagena in 1741; but the malaria reached the crew, and, as the poet says - “To infant weakness sunk the…

Brewer's: Werner

alias Kruitzner, alias Count Siegendorf. Being driven from the dominion of his father, he wandered about as a beggar for twelve years. Count…