David IvesAge: 84 television executive who, as president and CEO of Boston's WGBH, introduced Nova, Frontline, and Masterpiece Theater to Public Broadcasting Service viewers. He also…
The boy in a printing-office who lifts the printed sheets off the press. He is called the fly-boy because he catches the sheets as they fly from the tympan (q.v.) immediately the frisket (…
(To). To send a begging letter to persons of a charitable reputation, or in easy circumstances, to solicit pecuniary aid, urging poverty, losses, or sickness as an excuse. (See Kite-Flying…
(To come off with). In triumph; with the flags unfurled and flying. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Flying DutchmanFly Out at A B C D E F G H I J K…
(To). To burst or break into a passion. The Latin, involvo in ... “Poor choleric Sir Brian would fly out at his coachman, his butler, or his gamekeeper, and use language ... which ... from…
(Encyclopedia) Ringling Brothers, seven brothers, sons of German-born August Rüngeling, who established an American circus empire. Albert C. (1852–1916), Otto (1858–1911), Alfred T. (1861–1919),…
(To). To open suddenly, as, “the doors flew open,” “les portes s'ouvrirent,” as they do sometimes by the force of the wind. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
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