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W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields (William Claude Fields), 1880-1946, American comic actor, b. Philadelphia as Claude William Dukenfield. He began his career as a juggler, and much later appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies and in Earl Carroll's Vanities. In 1925, he first worked with D. W. Griffith. With his rasping v... Read more
W. C. Handy
W. C. Handy (William Christopher Handy), 1873-1958, American songwriter and band leader, b. Florence, Ala. Largely self-taught, Handy began his career as a cornet player in a minstrel show in 1896, and later organized various small bands. He was among the first to set down the blues, and with his ... Read more
David Dudley Field
David Dudley Field 1805-94, American lawyer and law reformer, b. Haddam, Conn.; brother of Cyrus W. Field and Stephen J. Field . He was graduated from Williams (1825), studied law in Albany and New York City, was admitted to the bar in 1828, and soon had a large practice in New York City. After ... Read more
Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding 1707-54, English novelist and dramatist. Born of a distinguished family, he was educated at Eton and studied law at Leiden. Settling in London in 1729, he began writing comedies, farces, and burlesques, the most notable being Tom Thumb (1730), and two satires, Pasquin (1736) and ... Read more
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden) , 1907-73, Anglo-American poet, b. York, England, educated at Oxford. A versatile, vigorous, and technically skilled poet, Auden ranks among the major literary figures of the 20th cent. Often written in everyday language, his poetry ranges in subject matter from pol... Read more
Robert Field Stockton
Robert Field Stockton 1795-1866, American naval officer, b. Princeton, N.J. He left the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) to enter the U.S. Navy at 16 and served in the War of 1812 and in the subsequent campaigns against the Barbary pirates. He negotiated (1821) a territorial concession on the ... Read more
Stephen Johnson Field
Stephen Johnson Field 1816-99, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1863-97), b. Haddam, Conn. After practicing law for several years in New York City with his brother David Dudley Field , he went to California in 1849, settled at Marysville, and in 1850 was elected to the... Read more
track and field athletics
track and field athletics sports of foot racing, hurdling, jumping, vaulting, and throwing varied weights and objects. They are usually separated into two categories: track, the running and hurdling events; and field, the throwing, jumping, and vaulting events. "Meets" are traditionally conduct... Read more
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis), 1898-1963, English author, b. Belfast, Ireland. A fellow and tutor of English at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1954, C. S. Lewis was noted equally for his literary scholarship and for his intellectual and witty expositions of Christian tenets. Among his m... Read more
C. Day Lewis
C. Day Lewis (Cecil Day Lewis), 1904-72, English author, b. Ireland. While he was still at Oxford, he became associated with a group of leftist poets led by W. H. Auden . After graduation he taught at various schools until 1935 and then decided to devote himself to writing. He was professor of poe... Read more

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W. C. Fields
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the comic sequence that Fields invented, with himself...In the mid-1930s Fields's rocklike constitution...nationwide popularity. At 60 Field's health improved...there were no more jobs. Fields spent his last days in...Taylor's touchingly funny W. C. Fields: His Follies...
Kellogg, W. K.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...industrialist Will Keith (W. K.) Kellogg (1860-1951...his competitors in a crowded field by relying heavily on advertising...products. For his trouble, W.K. earned $6 a week...espionage, when a man named C. W. Post (1854-1914) visited...
Creighton W. Abrams
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Creighton W. Abrams An outstanding...War II, General Creighton W. Abrams (1914-1974...1972 to 1974. Creighton W. Abrams was born on September...Fort Knox, he rewrote the field manual on armored tactics...September 4, 1974, of c
Bush, George W.
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Bush, George W. 1946- George Walker...The son of George H. W. Bush, the forty-first...United States, George W. was born in New Haven...Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and crashing a fourth jet in a field in Pennsylvania. More...
Fields, W. C.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Fields, W. C. [ né William Claude Dukenfield ] (1879–1946...immensely popular films and later appeared regularly on radio. Biography: W. C. Fields , James Curtis, 2003.
Fields (Dukenfield), W(illiam) C(laude)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Fields [Dukenfield], W(illiam) C(laude) [ W(illiam) C(laude) Dukenfield ] (1879–1946), American actor and vaudeville star, born in Philadelphia, where he made his first appearance at an open-air theatre as a...
Fields, W.C.
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Fields, W.C. ( William Claud ) (1880–1946) US music-hall, film and radio comedian. He was famous for his portrayal of hard...
Nominations and Succession of the Justices
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States ...appointment. Column 3 . C = confirmed. D = declined...postponed. R = rejected. W = withdrawn. Column...Paterson 27 Feb. 1793 W 28 Feb. 1793 William Paterson 4 Mar. 1793 C 4 Mar. 1793 11 Mar...1877 14 Stephen J. Field 6 Mar. 1863 C 10 Mar. 1863 20 May...
France
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...and Italy. Mont Blanc is w Europe's highest peak...de-France province, w of the River Loire , includes...Climate The climate in w France is mild, moderated...Vegetation A patchwork of fields and meadows covers c. 60% of the land. Forests...
National Parks and Monuments
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Canyon of the Gunnison NP W Colo. 1933 30,300...Congaree NP Central S.C. 1976 21,888 (8,862...Features Lehman Caves, an ice field on Wheeler Peak, ancient...Smoky Mountains NP N.C., Tenn. 1926 521,621...Guadalupe Mountains NP W Tex. 1966 86,416 (34...Wilderness preserve, vast ice ...

Dictionary entries related to " W.C. Fields"

Fields, W. C.
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers FIELDS, W. C. Nationality: American. Born...compilation) Publications By FIELDS: books— Drat! Being...x2014; Taylor, Robert Lewis, W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes...Everson, William K., The Art of W. C. Fields, Indianapolis...
George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and The American People (20 September 2001)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History GEORGE W. BUSH, ADDRESS TO A JOINT SESSION...into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the fourth crashed in an empty field near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In...verge of a free fall, President George W. Bush delivered a televised address...
Brown, Karl
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...x2014; With Leonard Fields, The Mississippi Gambler...1953. Adventures with D. W. Griffith, New York...articles— On D. W. Griffith in Sight and...Film (Washington, D.C.), October 1982...his association with D. W. Griffith between 1913...
A to Z of variable star types, An
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy ...detached binary similar to W Ursae Majoris type but...EW eclipsing binary of W Ursae Majoris type FKCOM...KW contact binary of W Ursae Majoris type L irregular...spectral type (K, M, C, S) LC irregular variable...pulsar with strong magnetic field ZAND Z Andromedae type...
Holborn, Ludwig Christian Friedrich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...preeminent physicist in the field of quantitative-measurement...torsion magnetometer with F. W. G. Kohlrausch. In 1890...determined, along with W. Wien and A. L. Day...greater than 100 ° C., without, however...x2013; 396, written with W. Wien; “ Ueber...
fairy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...as Giraldus Cambrensis ( c. 1146–1223...thiche; Manx ferrish; W y tylwyth teg [W, fair...W bendith y mamau [W, mother's blessings...or milking cows in the field, snatching unwatched food...commentators to note it were W. B. Yeats (1888) and...
Latimer, Wendell Mitchell
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the subsequent work of W. F. Giauque, who extended the field to even lower temperatures...General Chemistry with W. C. Bray and Reference Book...from 1941 to 1945 in the fields of oxygen production...chemistry that interested W. F. Libby, G. T. Seaborg...
Schools, Private
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Exeter (1778), and Deer-field (1799) pioneered the teaching...efficiently. President George H. W. Bush included "school...BIBLIOGRAPHY Carper, James C., and Thomas C. Hunt, eds. Religious...1984. Cookson, Peter W. School Choice: The Struggle...
Cross, Charles Whitman
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Cross. Cross ’ s accurate field investigations, which were carried...rocks, commonly referred to as the C. I. P.W. system. From the chemical analysis...Telluride Quadrangle (1899), with C. W. Purington; no. 60, La Plata Quadrangle...
Iddings, Joseph Paxson
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...fieldworkers such as Arnold Hague, C. D. Walcott, and G. F...rewarding of Iddings ’ field studies. He concluded from...enlisted the help of his friends C. W. Cross, L. V. Pirsson...alphabetically arranged), as the C.I.P.W. system. This...

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