To save appearances. To do something to obviate or prevent exposure or embarrassment. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Save the MarkSavage A B C D E F G…
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In 2004, the United States' major preoccupation was the ongoing war in Iraq. Hopes that Saddam Hussein's capture in Dec. 2003 would stem the country's turmoil faded with a dramatic…
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Party: Republican DOLE Robert Joseph , a Representative and a Senator from Kansas; born in Russell, Kans., July 22, 1923; graduated, Washburn Municipal University…
by Robert Burns The Young Highland RoverOn The Death Of Robert Dundas,...Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787[1] Afar the illustrious Exile roams,
Whom kingdoms on this day…
(clog an eadhachta Phatraic ) is six inches high, five broad, and four deep. It certainly was in existence in the sixth century. In the eleventh century a shrine was made for it of gold…
(The). Lords or gentlefolk who have only a name but no money. The tale is that the “puir wee lairds of Dunscore” clubbed together to buy a stone of salt, which was doled out to the…
Wine vaults. The Brighton Old Bank, in 1819, was turned by Mr. Savage into a smoking-room and ginshop. There was an entrance to it by the Pavilion Shades, and Savage took down the word…
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark October 24, 1804October 26, 1804October 25, 1804 25th of October Thursday a Gentle Breeze from the S. E by E passed an (1) old Village on a…
Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, was so called. James III. made favourites of architects and masons. One mason, named Cochrane, he created Earl of Mar. The Scotch nobles held a council in…
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