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Tom CheneyAge: 67 Washington Senators pitcher who set the major league record with 21 strikeouts in a 16-inning game on Sept. 12, 1962. The cause of his death was not given.Died: Rome, Ga.,…Tom Glazer 2003 Deaths
Tom GlazerAge: 88 folk singer who, with Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, and Burl Ives, helped to popularize the genre in the 1940s. Died: Philadelphia, Feb. 21, 2003Althea GibsonG - LRobert Good…Tom DeLay, 2006 News
politician, abandoned plans to resume his position as House majority leader in January, shortly after his close friend, disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, agreed to testify to federal…Tom Cruise, 2006 News
actor and producer, engaged in a very nasty and public parting of ways with his studio, Paramount Pictures. Sumner Redstone, the chairman of Paramount's parent company, Viacom, announced the…Tom Ridge, 2003 News
former governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as the country's first secretary of homeland security in January. The department, established in 2002 in response to the terrorist attacks on…Tom Thumb by the Brothers Grimm
Tom Thumb A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning. 'How lonely it is, wife,' said he, as he puffed out a long…Brewer's: Loud as Tom of Lincoln
The great church bell. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LouisLoud Patterns 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: Peeping Tom of Coventry
Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry, imposed some very severe imposts on the people of Coventry, which his countess, Godiva, tried to get mitigated. The earl, thinking to silence…Brewer's: Tom, Dick, and Harry
A set of nobodies; persons of no note; persons unworthy notice. Jones, Brown, and Robinson are far other men: they are the vulgar rich, especially abroad, who give themselves airs, and…Brewer's: Tom Fool's Colours
Red and yellow, or scarlet and yellow, the colours of the ancient motley. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Tom FooleryTom Folio A B C D E F G H I J…Trending
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