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Sabrina
Sabrina ♀ From the name of a character in Celtic legend, who supposedly gave her name to the River Severn. In fact this is one of the most ancient of all British river names, and its true origins are obscure. Legend, as preserved by Geoffrey of Monmouth, had it that Sabrina was the... Read more |
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Edith Head
Edith Head 1907-81, American costume designer, b. Los Angeles, Calif. She began to design costumes for the motion pictures in the early 1930s, working at Paramount for most of her career and moving to Universal in 1967. She won eight Academy Awards for a variety of films, including The Heiress ... Read more |
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Severn (UK)
Severn sĕv´ern , Lat. Sabrina, one of the principal rivers of Great Britain, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising on Plinlimmon Mt., W Wales, and flowing NE and E to Shrewsbury, W England, and from there SE, S, and SW—through an estuary—to the Bristol Channel. Worcester , ... Read more |
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Gwendolen
Gwendolen ♀ (Welsh) name, borne, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, by the wife of a mythical Welsh king Locrine, who abandoned her for a German princess called Estrildis. Gwendolen in revenge had Estrildis and her daughter Sabrina drowned in the River Severn. The name is borne by one of the... Read more |
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder 1906-2002, American film director, producer, and writer, b. Sucha, Galicia (now Poland) as Samuel Wilder. He wrote for films in Berlin, fled the Nazis, and arrived in Hollywood in 1934. After writing various screenplays, he directed his first film in 1942, and soon developed a... Read more |
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Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn 1929-93, film actress, b. Brussels as Audrey Kathleen Ruston. The daughter of an English banker and a Dutch baroness, she and her mother lived in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation. Moving to London, she studied ballet and acting, modeled, danced, and played bit parts before... Read more |
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50 Cent
50 Cent July 6, 1976 • Queens, New York Rap musician The rapper known as 50 Cent is living proof that hip-hop is as much a lifestyle as it is a type of music. He was a star in the underground mix-tape circuit for several years, but the rest of the world did not hear about him until 2002,... Read more |
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Sabrina Fair
Sabrina Fair (1953), a comedy by Samuel Taylor...Collins), whose brilliant daughter, Sabrina ( Margaret Sullavan), has just returned...unreceptive, but he has not bargained on Sabrina's charm and insinuating ways. Whether... |
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Sabrina
Sabrina, a poetic name for the river Severn (see under Estrildis). In Milton's Comus, Sabrina is the goddess of the Severn. |
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Sullavan, Margaret
...Collyer, a woman in love with an unloving man in The Deep Blue Sea (1952); and the chauffeur's daughter Sabrina Fairchild in Sabrina Fair (1953). Sullavan was trying out in what promised to be another success when she committed suicide... |
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Comus, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: on Michaelmasse Night,...
...Lady from her enchanted chair, which provides an opportunity for Thyrsis to invoke Sabrina, goddess of the neighbouring river Severn, in the lovely song ‘Sabrina Fair, | Listen where thou art sitting’. She arrives, the Lady is freed, and... |
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Hepburn, Audrey
...performance in Roman Holiday (1953) won her an Academy Award for best actress. A succession of similiar roles in films such as Sabrina (1954) and Funny Face (1957) earned her further popular success. Other credits include Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961... |
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Taylor, Samuel
...1950), his dramatization of Robert Fontaine's novel, gave him his first success. His other memorable comedies were Sabrina Fair (1953), the story of a chauffeur's daughter and a rich man; and The Pleasure of His Company (1958), in which... |
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Cotten, Joseph (Cheshire)
...Philadelphia Story (1939), then spent many years in films. Subsequently he played the misanthropic Linus Larrabee Jr., in Sabrina Fair (1953), the temperamental conductor Victor Fabian in Once More, with Feeling (1958), and businessman Julian Armstrong... |
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Estrildis
...to Geoffrey of Monmouth's History).Locrine, king of Britain, fell in love with her and they had a daughter Habren (Sabrina). Locrine put aside his wife Gwendolen for her, but she exacted vengeance on him by pursuing and slaying him in battle and... |
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Locrine
...He rules over Loegria (Logres). He married Gwendolen but abandoned her for Estrildis and was the father of her daughter Sabrina. He is mentioned by Spenser in The Faerie Queene and is the subject of Swinburne's play Locrine (1887). |
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Nesbitt, Cathleen (Mary)
...Julia in The Cocktail Party (1950), the kindly, knowing dowager Alicia de St. Ephlam in Gigi (1951), Mrs. Larrabee in Sabrina Fair (1953), and Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady (1956). At the age of ninety‐two, shortly before her death, she... |
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Sabrina
Sabrina ♀ From the name of a character in Celtic...preserved by Geoffrey of Monmouth, had it that Sabrina was the illegitimate daughter of a Welsh...Gwendolen. The river name is found in the form Sabrina in the Latin writings of Tacitus, Gildas... |
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Cana
...misdemeanour (US misdemeanor), Nina, novena, ocarina, Palestrina, Pasadena, Philomena, piscina, retsina, Rowena, Sabrina, scarlatina, screener, Selina, semolina, Seraphina, Serena, Sheena, signorina, sonatina, subpoena, Taormina, tsarina... |
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Christina
...misdemeanour (US misdemeanor), Nina, novena, ocarina, Palestrina, Pasadena, Philomena, piscina, retsina, Rowena, Sabrina, scarlatina, screener, Selina, semolina, Seraphina, Serena, Sheena, signorina, sonatina, subpoena, Taormina, tsarina... |
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...misdemeanour (US misdemeanor), Nina, novena, ocarina, Palestrina, Pasadena, Philomena, piscina, retsina, Rowena, Sabrina, scarlatina, screener, Selina, semolina, Seraphina, Serena, Sheena, signorina, sonatina, subpoena, Taormina, tsarina... |
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detainer
...misdemeanour (US misdemeanor), Nina, novena, ocarina, Palestrina, Pasadena, Philomena, piscina, retsina, Rowena, Sabrina, scarlatina, screener, Selina, semolina, Seraphina, Serena, Sheena, signorina, sonatina, subpoena, Taormina, tsarina... |
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deus ex machina
...misdemeanour (US misdemeanor), Nina, novena, ocarina, Palestrina, Pasadena, Philomena, piscina, retsina, Rowena, Sabrina, scarlatina, screener, Selina, semolina, Seraphina, Serena, Sheena, signorina, sonatina, subpoena, Taormina, tsarina... |
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entertainer
...misdemeanour (US misdemeanor), Nina, novena, ocarina, Palestrina, Pasadena, Philomena, piscina, retsina, Rowena, Sabrina, scarlatina, screener, Selina, semolina, Seraphina, Serena, Sheena, signorina, sonatina, subpoena, Taormina, tsarina... |
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explainer
...misdemeanour (US misdemeanor), Nina, novena, ocarina, Palestrina, Pasadena, Philomena, piscina, retsina, Rowena, Sabrina, scarlatina, screener, Selina, semolina, Seraphina, Serena, Sheena, signorina, sonatina, subpoena, Taormina, tsarina... |
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Filipina
...misdemeanour (US misdemeanor), Nina, novena, ocarina, Palestrina, Pasadena, Philomena, piscina, retsina, Rowena, Sabrina, scarlatina, screener, Selina, semolina, Seraphina, Serena, Sheena, signorina, sonatina, subpoena, Taormina, tsarina... |
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Gaynor
...misdemeanour (US misdemeanor), Nina, novena, ocarina, Palestrina, Pasadena, Philomena, piscina, retsina, Rowena, Sabrina, scarlatina, screener, Selina, semolina, Seraphina, Serena, Sheena, signorina, sonatina, subpoena, Taormina, tsarina... |
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Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Will Magically Transform One Lucky Fan This Fall...
...Show Can Enter To Win a Trip to the Set of Sabrina at Paramount Studios and a Recording Session...to create the ultimate giveaway -- the "Sabrina Sing-Along Sweepstakes." One lucky "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch(TM)" fan will be flown... |
 "The People (London, England)")
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Sabrina, the child who never stood a chance; Cinderella girl was burned,...
...her the Cinderella Girl. But for little Sabrina Green there was to be no fairy-tale...in unimaginable suffering. Somehow, Sabrina had slipped through the so-called welfare...country's outrage has come too late. Sabrina is now just another statistic along with... |
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'Sabrina, The Animated Series(TM)' Becomes an Interactive PC Game With Stars...
...17 /PRNewswire/ -- Emily Hart (Sabrina) and Nick Bakay (Salem), both stars of the hit ABC-TV cartoon show "Sabrina, The Animated Series," have teamed...for girls ages 6-9 -- titled Sabrina, The Animated Series: Magical Adventure... |
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Sabrina&Company Offers Business Owners Social Media Freedom of Being...
Sabrina&Company providing social media services for companies including...strategically designed and constantly updated with relevant content. Sabrina Espinal, founder of Sabrina&Company, a virtual business support firm, eliminates the problem... |
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Sabrina game casts fun spell.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Sabrina, The Animated Series: Magical Adventure...9 Two and a half stars (out of four) Sabrina the Teenage Witch has had any number of...continue to be published for preteen readers. Sabrina reappeared as a cartoon ("Sabrina, the... |
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`SABRINA': ABC'S HIT WITH HART : ACTRESS' ENERGY, SITCOM'S FRESH SLANT...
...is a little testy today - and we don't just mean Sabrina, TV's favorite teen-age witch. On the set at the Universal lot, Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart) of the hit ABC comedy ``Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'' is in a really foul mood... |
 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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SABRINA TAKES A BEWITCHING TRIP
...Bergen County, NJ) 10-04-1998 SABRINA TAKES A BEWITCHING TRIPBy VIRGINIA ROHAN...All Editions -- SundayAfter playing Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, in her television...wanted to do on her summer break was more Sabrina. But ABC was mad for the idea of another... |
 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Sabrina,Britain's first sex bomb,has become a tragic down and out recluse in...
...unlikely that Jordan has ever heard of Sabrina, the great pinup of the Fifties. But...too, entirely founded her career. Sabrina was a superstar of dynamic proportions...celebrity, would do well to heed. While Sabrina was the darling of postwar Britain, her... |
 "The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)")
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SABRINA HARMAN
...knows how the world will remember Spc. Sabrina Harman. His daughter is the woman crouching...s face; that is the public image of Sabrina Harman. But to Tom Harman, her father...enjoys torturing people." Last week, Sabrina Harman was sentenced to six months in... |
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Sabrina and the making of English history in Poly-Olbion and A Maske...
Abstracts The mythical figure Sabrina had a robust life in English writing about...Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle. The Sabrina tradition shows that the nymph of Milton...historiography. This new understanding of Sabrina and the making of history reveals how... |
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