Maurice GreeneBorn: July 23, 1974Track & Field world 100m champion in 1997, 99 and 2001 and 200m champion in 1999; former world record holder (9.79) in the 100m; won the gold medal in the…
(A). A young goose not fully grown. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Green GownGreen Glasses A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V…
(The) told everything a person wished to know, and talked like an oracle. (Countess D'Aulnoy: Fair Star and Prince Chery.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
(The). A Pagan, who demanded Fezon in marriage; but, overcome by Orson, resigned his claim. (Valentine and Orson.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Green…
The lowest-paid labour in the tailoring trade. Such garments are sold to African gold-diggers and agricultural labourers. Soap and shoddy do more for these garments than cotton or cloth. (…
The 39th Foot, so called from the colour of their facings. Now the Dorsetshire, and the facings are white. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Green ManGreen…
Maunday Thursday, the great day of absolution in the Lutheran Church. (German, Grün-donnerstag; in Latin, dies viridium, Luke xxiii. 31.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…
Green cloth for foresters; so called from Kendal, Westmoreland, famous at one time for this manufacture. Kendal green was the livery of Robin Hood and his followers. In Rymer's Faedera (ii…
Leonard Michael GreeneBorn: 1918Birthplace: New York City Airplane stall warning device—Greene developed his airplane stall warning device at a time when more than half of all aviation deaths…
(The). A political party opposed to the Blues in the reign of Justinian. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894GreenbacksGreen Sleeves and Pudding Pies A B C D…
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