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	Tuxedo Tuxedo Background The tuxedo is a man's tailored suit used for semi-formal or formal wear. It may be sewn from a wide variety of colors and fabrics; increasingly, brighter colors and unconventional designs are pervasive in tuxedo styling. Nevertheless, most tuxedos are... Read more
	beggar beggar a person who lives by asking for money or food.beggar on horseback a formerly poor person made arrogant or corrupt through achieving wealth and luxury; recorded from the early 16th century. The phrase is related to the late 16th century saying, set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the... Read more
	P T Barnum P. T. Barnum (Phineas Taylor Barnum) , 1810-91, American showman, b. Bethel, Conn. As a youth Barnum worked at diverse sales jobs and managed a boardinghouse. He made his first sensation in 1835 when he bought and exhibited Joice Heth, a slave who claimed she was 161 years old (she was about 80)... Read more
	John Bastwick Bastwick, John (1593–1654). Bastwick was an indefatigable opponent of Laud and the bishops. Born in Essex, he went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and then practised as a physician. In the 1630s he published several pamphlets urging presbyterianism and denouncing the church which was... Read more
	Thomas Hutchinson Thomas Hutchinson 1711-80, colonial governor of Massachusetts (1771-74) and historian, b. Boston. A descendant of Anne Hutchinson, he was a man of wealth and prominence, of learning, and of notable integrity. He entered public life when he became (1737) a member of the General Court, the... Read more
	comprador comprador, the equivalent in the Far East of a ship chandler. The word entered the English language, and marine literature, largely through the novels and stories of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham, who both wrote about the East. Originally it was a Portuguese word introduced in the East to... Read more
	William Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham , 1874-1965, English writer, b. Paris. He was noted as an expert storyteller and a master of fiction technique. An introverted child afflicted with a stammer, Maugham was orphaned at 10 and sent to live with his uncle, a vicar. Although he later studied medicine and... Read more
	diocese of Bath and Wells Bath and Wells, diocese of. The present see, created in 909, is roughly conterminous with the old county of Somerset. Though Wells itself was founded in c.704 as a religious centre by Ine, king of Wessex, and his nephew Aldhelm, first bishop of Sherborne, it was not until 909 that Edward the Elder... Read more
	Edmund Beaufort 1st duke of Somerset Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 1st duke of (c.1406–55). Entitled count of Mortain from 1427, and earl of Dorset from 1438, Beaufort was frequently employed in the defence of Lancastrian France, with the backing of his uncle, Cardinal Beaufort. He succeeded to the titles of his elder brother ... Read more
	Sir Gerald Kelly Kelly, Sir Gerald (1879–1972). British painter, mainly of portraits, born in London of Irish descent; his grandfather was the creator of Kelly's Directories. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge (where he read English), and in 1901 went to Paris, where he studied painting without formal... Read more