lady's man
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la·dy's man
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n.
variant spelling of ladies' man.
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Helen's Treasure: Odyssey of a Ladies' Man.(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch; 6/1/2009; ; 419 words
; Helen's Treasure: Odyssey of a Ladies' Man Andrew J. Rodriguez Outskirts Press...powerful inner force could compel this ladies' man to contain his lust despite overwhelming...hidden in: Helen's Treasure: Odyssey of a Ladies' Man. This light-hearted story of desire and...
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Pinetop Perkins, Ladies Man.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
Magazine article from: Sing Out!; 3/22/2005; ; 62 words
; PINETOP PERKINS, Ladies Man, (M.C. 0053). These collaborations with women artists prove the 91-year-old blues pianist and singer to be in fine, energetic form...
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 "Spalding Guardian & Lincs Free Press (Spalding, England)")
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Soap's ladies' man will turn on centre's lights.
Newspaper article from: Spalding Guardian & Lincs Free Press (Spalding, England); 11/7/2007; 123 words
; ...Mower will be turning on the Christmas lights at Springfields Outlet Shopping Centre, Spalding, next week. Patrick, who plays ladies' man Rodney Blackstock in the ITV soap, will also sign autographs and pose for photos with fans on Friday, November 16. The official...
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Random House Audio.(Ladies Man)(The Black Dahlia )(Audiobook review)
Magazine article from: California Bookwatch; 12/1/2006; 118 words
; Random House Audio 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com/audio Suzanne Brockmann's LADIES MAN (0739340867, $29.95) receives fine recording by Kathe Mazur, who has worked extensively in film and here lends excitement and high...
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Dark side of charming ladies' man.
Newspaper article from: Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England); 6/10/2008; 124 words
; ...Active gym in Walton-le-Dale. He had a big car and a good job in IT in Manchester and quickly earned himself a reputation as a ladies' man and a player . At his trial it was heard that hundreds of women had enjoyed his body . But underneath the charming front was...
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-Gry revisited.
Magazine article from: Word Ways; 5/1/2008; ; 354 words
; ...combination--egyr and kongyr. Egyr is a 14-15 century obsolete variant spelling of the adjective eager . The OED has three illustrative...combination: carryg. Carryg is a 15th century obsolete variant spelling of carrack , a large ship of burden, also fitted for warfare...
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Victor Rasuk: his lip-smackin' upstart seduced audiences at the sundance film festival. Your town may be next. (Movie Buzz).(Interview)
Magazine article from: Interview; 4/1/2003; ; 440 words
; ...played out on the set? VR: Sure. Pete wanted Vargas to be a ladies' man--real flamboyant--but I'm kind of shy. There were times when...talks up the ladies. I got that from LL Cool J, the ultimate ladies' man. But Pete didn't like it. I kept doing it, and he was getting...
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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Interview; 3/1/2004; ; 67 words
; ...self-sacrificing bookseller Harbour (Adrian Rawlins) repeatedly stops his younger brother, Wilbur (Jamie Sives), a reluctant ladies' man, from committing suicide. When a pretty single mother (Shirley Henderson) wanders into their shop, both men get a lesson in...
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Profile: The killer.
Newspaper article from: Chorley Guardian (Chorley, England); 6/11/2008; 242 words
; Suave ladies' man or brutal murderer? The truth was 36-year-old James Bellass was both. He was a highly successful, handsome and charming IT professional...
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Brief Sketches of Members of the Kelly Gang.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 10/1/2007; ; 101 words
; BRIEF SKETCHES OF MEMBERS OF THE KELLY GANG Joe Byrne: balladeer, ladies' man, spoke Cantonese (he needed opium from the Chinese), could hit a penny tossed into the air with a rifle shot, Ned's trusted second-in-com...
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Magazines, Women's
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...emerged. The best known of these was the Lady's Magazine and Repository of Entertaining...Philadelphia in 1792. Primarily literary, the Lady's Magazine contained no information about...of the early women's magazines, Godey's Lady's Book, stated in its first issue that it...
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Popple, William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Popple, William (1701–64), dramatist and theatre critic, wrote two comedies, The Lady's Revenge (1734) and The Double Deceit: or A Cure for Jealousy (1735), in which two young men, intended to marry two heiresses, conspire...
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Miriam Florence (Folline) Leslie
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
c.1836-1914, American publisher, b. New Orleans. She became editor of Frank Leslie's Lady's Journal in 1871 and married Leslie in 1874. After his death she skillfully managed the business, bringing it out of debt. She leased...
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-s
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
-s repr. OE. g. sg. -es of many m. and n. sbs., written ' s , as boy's , horse's , lady's , with extension to certain pls., as men's ; special cases are its use (1) as a euphem. repr. of God's in oaths, as ' sblood (XVI...
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Literati of New York City, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Literati of New York City, The, critical review by Poe of the Knickerbocker Group and other New York authors, published in Godey's Lady's Book (1846). Among the 38 authors are Halleck (the third principal contemporary poet, “a somewhat better position than...
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