by Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake The Finding of the New WorldA Self Support ProblemOur Forgotten Foremothers. Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake was born in Raleigh, N. C. Her father, George P.…
PlayThe CrucibleMusicalWonderful TownActor—PlayTom Ewell, The Seven Year ItchActress—PlayShirley Booth, Time of the CuckooSupporting or Featured Actor—PlayJohn Williams, Dial M for…
by WilliamBlakeIII The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks,
All but the youngest: she in paleness sought the secret air.
To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal…
Bruce and the spider. In the spring of 1305, Robert Bruce was crowned at Scone King of Scotland, but, being attacked by the English, retreated first to the wilds of Athole, and then to the…
Day 1477 Day 1479 Lewis, June 27, 1806 Friday June 27th 1806. We collected our horses early and set out. the road still continued on the heights of the same dividing ridge on which we had…
Day 1478 Day 1480 Clark, June 27, 1806 Friday June 27th 1806 We collected our horses early and Set out. the road Still Continue on the hights of the Dividing ridge on which we had traveled…
Not worth a rush. Worthless. The allusion is to the practice of strewing floors with rushes before carpets were invented. Distinguished guests had clean fresh rushes, but those of inferior…
To look (or see) through a millstone. To be wonderfully sharp-sighted. “Then ... since your eies are so sharp that you can not only looke through a milstone, but cleane through the minde…
Prince of Enchanters; also the name of a romance. He was the son of a damsel seduced by a fiend, but Blaise baptised the infant, and so rescued it from the power of Satan. He died spell-…
