The United States is home to roughly 40% of the world's billionaires. About 10% of America's richest citizens have committed to participate in the Giving Pledge and donate…
Final AP Top 25Major Conference ChampionsNCAA Tournament (64 teams)NIT Tournament (32 teams)Players of the YearCoaches of the YearConsensus All-America UCLA, a school long synonymous with the final…
Sir Toby Belch. A reckless, roistering, jolly knight of the Elizabethan period. (Shakespeare: Twelfth Night.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BelcherBel…
Queen of the Amazons, slain by Achilles. Sir Toby Belch says to Maria, in the service of Olivia “Good-night, Penthesilea [my fine woman].” Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, ii. 2. Source:…
An enthusiast, who thinks the world hinges on getting Uncle Toby to understand the action of a new medical instrument. (Sterne: Tristram Shandy.) A nickname given by William Hone to Sir…
As big as a Dorchester butt. Very corpulent, like the butts of Dorchester. Of Toby Filpot it is said: His breath-doors of life on a sudden were shut, And he died full as big as a…
Did you never see the picture of “We Three” ? asks Sir Andrew Aguecheek- not meaning himself, Sir Toby Belch, and the clown, but referring to a public-…
A pavin is a stately dance (see Pavan) ; a passy-measure pavin is a reeling dance or motion, like that of a drunken man, from side to side. Sir Toby Belch says of Dick Surgeon- “He's a…
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