Senate Years of Service: 1959-1971
Party: Democrat McCARTHY Eugene Joseph , a Representative and a Senator from Minnesota; born in Watkins, Meeker County, Minn., March 29, 1916; attended St.…
MONTGOMERY Gillespie V. (Sonny) , a Representative from Mississippi; born in Meridian, Lauderdale County, Miss., August 5, 1920; graduated from the McCallie School, Chattanooga, Hamilton County,…
The opening month, when the trees unfold, and the womb of nature opens with young life. (Latin, aperire, to open.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894April…
(French). “Good bye for the present.” Literally, till seeing you again. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Aubry's DogAu Pied de la Lettre A B C D E F G…
means meat-pie “The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage table” (Hamlet); i.e. the hot meat-pies (venison pasties) served at the funeral and not eaten, were served…
[Stock Exchange term ]. The London, Brighton, & South Coast Railway Deferred Stock. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Berthe au Grand PiedBertha A B C D…
Grave robbers. First applied to Burke and Hare, in 1829, who rifled graves to sell the bodies for dissection, and sometimes even murdered people for the same purpose. Source: Dictionary…
A gladiator who made use of a net, which he threw over his adversary. As in thronged amphitheatre of old The wary Retiarius trapped his foe. Thomson: Castle of Indolence, canto ii.…
(French). A bank-note. The assignats of the first republic were so called, because the paper on which they were printed was exceedingly thin. (Dictionnaire du Bas-Langage, ii. 139.)…
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