Maitre Aliboron Mr. Jackass. Aliboron is the name of a jackass in La Fontaine's Fables. (See Gonin.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AliceAlibi Clock A B…
A cat; a vile poet. La Fontaine in several of his fables gives this name to the cat. Rabelais under this name satirises Guillaume Crétin, an old French poet in the reigns of Charles VIII…
(Encyclopedia) Shaw, George Bernard, 1856–1950, Irish playwright and critic. He revolutionized the Victorian stage, then dominated by artificial melodramas, by presenting vigorous dramas of ideas.…
Homme de numero—that is “un homme fin en affaires.” M. Walckenaer says it is a shop phrase, meaning that he knows all the numbers of the different goods, or all the private marks…
In French, “Il faut avoir mauvaise bête par douceur,” for, as La Fontaine says, “Plus fait douceur que violence.”Bears are very fond of honey. Bribes win even bears. There is another…
“La fontaine de Jourvence fit rejovenir la gent.” The broth of Medea did the same. Grinding old men young. Ogier's Ring (q.v.) restored the aged to youth again. The Dancing Water restores…
He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other. No one can do well or properly two things at once. “No man can serve two masters.” French: “Poursuis deux lièvres, et les manques” (…
The most famous writers of fables are— Pilpay, among the Hindus. Lokman, among the Arabs. Æsop and Babrios, among the Greeks. Phædrus and Arianus, among the Romans. Faerne, Abstemius, and…
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The 1944 Academy Awards were presented March 15, 1944 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.Outstanding Motion PictureCasablanca (Warner Bros.)For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paramount)…
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