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Rosalind Russell
RUSSELL, Rosalind Nationality:American. Born:Waterbury, Connecticut, 4 June 1908. Education:Attended Notre Dame Academy, Waterbury; Marymount School, Tarrytown on the Hudson, New York; American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York. Family:Married Frederic... Read more |
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Farewell
248. Farewell Auld Lang Syne closing song of New Year’s Eve. [Music: Leach, 91] extreme unction (last rites ) anointing at the hour of death, sacrament of Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church. [Christianity: NCE, 689] gold watch token of gratitude often bestowed on retiring... Read more |
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Washingtons Farewell Address
WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS (17 September 1796) When George Washington was unanimously elected by the Constitutional Convention as the first president of the United States in 1789, the newly forged nation was still deeply uncertain of its own survival. Washington, a towering figure, legendary... Read more |
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Blind Melon
Blind Melon Alternative rock band For the Record… Over the Edge Farewell Disc Lauded, Band Forms Anew Selected discography Sources Blind Melon rocketed to stardom in the realm of alternative rock with their self-titled debut album in 1992, which sold more than 3 million copies... Read more |
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August Macke
August Macke , 1887-1914, German painter. Trained in Germany, he made several trips to Paris, where he came in contact with impressionism and the fauvist and cubist painters. A brilliant colorist, he joined the artists Franz Marc and Kandinsky and exhibited with the Blaue Reiter group. In 1914 he... Read more |
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Antimilitarism
23. Antimilitarism (See also Peace, Peacemaking.) All Quiet on the Western Front unromanticized novel of WWI and its unsung heroes. [Ger. Lit.: All Quiet on the Western Front ] Arjuna called upon by duty to be a warrior, he refuses to join the fratricidal battle. [Hindu Lit.: The... Read more |
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Raymond Chandler
Chandler, Raymond (1888–1959), born in Chicago, reared in England, moved to southern California (1912) but did not begin to write his famous mystery stories until he was in his forties. He soon became the prime figure of the school of hard‐boiled detective fiction, also distinguished... Read more |
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Bowery Theatre
Bowery Theatre (New York). Originally planned as the Bull's Head Theatre after a tavern on the site, it was opened in 1826 as the New York Theatre, Bowery. The name never took and it was always known simply as the Bowery Theatre. In its early years the house was the major competition to the Park... Read more |
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John OLeary
O'LEARY, John 1926– PERSONAL Born May 5, 1926, in Newton, MA. Addresses: Agent— The Gage Group, 14724 Ventura Blvd., Suite 505, Los Angeles, CA 91403. Career: Actor. CREDITS Film Appearances: Marullus, Julius Caesar, 1950, Brandon Films, 1952. Putnam "Put" Blake, The Group,... Read more |
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Military-Industrial Complex
MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. The term "military-industrial complex" (MIC) was coined by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address of 1961. Great and sustained spending for defense and war, he warned, created power groups that could disastrously harm the... Read more |
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Lillie, Beatrice (Gladys)
...Ziegfeld Follies of 1957, she succeeded Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame then played the wacky medium Madame Arcati in High Spirits...through a devastating mockery of curtsies and fond gestures of farewell.” A tiny, slender woman, who wore her hair in a mannishly... |
 "Motherwell Times (Motherwell, Scotland)")
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Sad farewell to Auntie Rose.
...time to volunteer at St Columba's and took on a job as a dinner lady at St Columba's School where the children called her 'Auntie Rose'. Rose worked with the Union of Catholic Mothers and was the group's president for some years... |
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And so, farewell to our favourite Auntie
ScOTLAND always did need a national Auntie. Someone to wipe the country's nose and tell it off when it ate too much shortbread. And when it came to stern looks, cut... |
 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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'Auntie' Enid dies at age of 109; FAREWELL TO ONE OF OLDEST IN...
...Wales' oldest women died at the weekend, aged 109. Enid Vaughan Williams, known to everyone in the Penrhyndeudraeth area as Auntie Enid, was born the year after Queen Victoria died and nearly two years before the Wright brothers flew their first aeroplane... |
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Hugh MacDonald on Auntie Beeb's sporting bloomers
SO FAREWELL, then, Match of the Day. You were the Auntie Beeb who visited us during winter breaks or on Sunday mornings...of football. Scotland was always the poor relation to Auntie Beeb. Dougie Donnelly has the air of somebody who would... |
 "Sunday Life (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Tributes paid to 'Auntie Joy'.(NEWS)
...BBC Northern Ireland LEADING sports broadcasters have paid tribute to the woman they called 'Auntie Joy'. And tomorrow, they will say a final farewell at the funeral of the star-maker who put them on the road to fame. Joy Williams struck a... |
 "The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)")
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THE AUNTIES SPEAK.(Daily Break)
...They married, then waved farewell as sailor husbands went off...published next year . But the Aunties seemed a natural place to...about the same ages as the Aunties were when they began their...shirts mingled with four Aunties, 60-something women ... |
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Auntie's Northern Soul.
...PRESSWIRE-June 13, 2011-: Auntie's Northern Soul(C)1994...COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:13062011 Auntie's Northern Soul, Sunday...North West As BBC North bids farewell to its Manchester studios to...a national audience." As Auntie's Northern Soul celebrates... |
 "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)")
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We love you, Auntie Cher. (minority retort).(Column)
...concoction after the other, I'd think, If Auntie Chef could get away and make something...gay I am. One occurred during Cher's farewell appearance at the Staples Center. It...I realized I wasn't the only one. Auntie Cher belongs to all of us. Mapa has starred... |
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Auntie knows best ... BBC picks Eurovision entry for us.(News)
...approach led to five winners and 15 runners-up but the BBC, or Auntie as it is often known, has wrested control of the process after...including John Kennedy O'Connor, who wrote online: 'So farewell then, British democracy. 'Blue will be going to Eurovision... |
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WALES: Fond farewell to Aunty Dot.(News)
...longest serving and best loved lollipop ladies, "Auntie Dot" said farewell to staff and pupils yesterday. Dorothy Jones, who...at the school and headteacher Andrew Partidge said Auntie Dot would be missed by parents, staff and youngsters... |
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