The longest jumper on record was Phayllos, who is accredited with jumping 55 feet. Half that length would be an enormous jump. A counter jumper. A draper's apprentice or employe, who is…
(Encyclopedia) Schiller, Friedrich von, 1759–1805, German dramatist, poet, and historian, one of the greatest of German literary figures, b. Marbach, Württemberg. The poets of German romanticism were…
Individualists hold that as little as possible should be done for its subjects by the State, as much as possible being left to free individual initiative. Socialism tends to treat the…
All the fashion. Drapers will tell you that certain goods “go off well.” They are in great demand, all the mode, quite in vogue. Her carte is hung in the West-end shops, With her name in…
To shave a customer. Hotten says, when a master-draper sees anyone capable of being imposed upon enter his shop, he strokes his ohin, to signify to his assistant that the customer may be…
Now means a small cloth used to cover dessert plates; but originally it had a much wider meaning. Thus Dryden speaks of “doyley petticoats;” and Steele, in No. 102 of the Tatler, speaks of…
(Encyclopedia) Iran-contra affair, in U.S. history, secret arrangement in the 1980s to provide funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran. The Iran-contra…
Maggoty. Whimsical, full of whims and fancies. Fancy tunes used to be called maggots, hence we have “Barker's maggots,” “Cary's maggots,” “Draper's maggots,” etc. (Dancing Master, 1721.)…
