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ECIEITIMIAOIEarly Childhood InteractiveEveryone InteractiveTeen InteractiveMature InteractiveAdults Only InteractiveContent suitable for children age 3 and older.Content suitable for children…

Seinfeld

Leaving as Masters of Their Domain by Gerry Brown The cast of SeinfeldSource: Archive Photos Information Please Haiku Contest Michael Richards, as KramerSource: Wide World Photos I can't get…

Chauncey Judd: Preface

Special Notice Preface Few persons, probably, of the present generation are aware that in the time of the American Revolution there was carried on a border warfare between Long Island…

Brewer's: Absquatulate

Absquat′ulate To run away or abscond. A comic American word, from ab and squat (to go away from your squatting). A squatting is a tenement taken in some unclaimed part, without purchase or…

Brewer's: Bernesque Poetry

Serio-comic poetry; so called from Francesco Berni, of Tuscany, who greatly excelled in it. (1490-1536). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Bernouilli's…

Brewer's: Hunting of the Hare

A comic romance, published in Weber's collection. A yeoman informs the inhabitants of a village that he has seen a hare, and invites them to join him in hunting it. They attend with their…

Brewer's: Blackacre

(Widow ). The best of Wycherley's comic characters; she is a masculine, litigious, pettifogging, head-strong woman. (The Plain Dealer.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…

Brewer's: Peter Peebles

Peter Peebles' Lawsuit. In Sir Walter Scott's novel of Redgauntlet. Peter is a litigious hardhearted drunkard, poor as a churchmouse, and a liar to the backbone. His “ganging plea” is…

Brewer's: Twelfth Night

(Shakespeare). The serious plot is taken from Belleforest's Histories Tragiques. The comic parts are of Shakespeare's own invention. (See Befana.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…