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Ah Sin
Ah Sin (1877), a play by Bret Harte, Mark Twain. [Fifth Avenue Theatre, 35 perf.] Broderick ( Edmund K. Collier), a “knave through circumstances over which he ought to have control,” attacks Uncle Billy Plunkett ( P. A. Anderson), “the Champion Liar of Calaveras,”... Read more |
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Bret Harte
Bret Harte (Francis Brett Harte) , 1836-1902, American writer of short stories and humorous verse, b. Albany, N.Y. At 19 he went to California, where he tried his hand at teaching, clerking, and mining. In 1868 he helped establish the Overland Monthly, where his short stories and verse first... Read more |
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MLiss
M'Liss (1878), a play by Clay Greene. [Niblo's Garden, 16 perf.] M'liss ( Kate Mayhew) is “the waif of the Sierras,” a bright, attractive young hoyden who has been neglected by her drunken miner father. She is spunky enough to fight off ruffians who would attack the young man she... Read more |
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Mother Lode
Mother Lode belt of gold-bearing quartz veins, central Calif., along the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The term is sometimes limited to a strip c.70 mi (110 km) long and from 1 to 6 1/2 mi (1.6-10.5 km) wide, running NW from Mariposa. Popularly it is used to mean the gold-bearing area... Read more |
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Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart
Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (1907-1992) became a leading scholar in the field of legal philosophy after publishing his most influential work, The Concept of Law, in 1961. Hart was a foremost proponent of legal positivism. Law Career H.L.A. Hart was born on... Read more |
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Drusus
Drusus , Roman family of the gens Livius. An early distinguished member was Marcus Livius Drusus, d. 109? BC, tribune of the people (122) with Caius Sempronius Gracchus (see under Gracchi ). As a member of the senatorial party he led a successful attack on Gracchus by making more extreme... Read more |
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Crew Cut
Crew Cut Also known as a G.I., or government issue, haircut, the standard crew cut is a variation on the buzz cut, a regulation haircut given to servicemen in the U.S. military in which the entire head is sheared, typically with an electric razor. In the crew cut a thick bristle of hair less... Read more |
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Edward William Bok
Edward William Bok 1863-1930, American editor, b. Helder, Netherlands. His family emigrated to the United States in 1870. He founded the Brooklyn Magazine (later Cosmopolitan ) in 1883. As editor (1889-1919), he made the Ladies' Home Journal a leading American magazine for women, introducing... Read more |
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Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley1921–2005 Federal court judge, lawyer, politician When, in May of 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case, the real struggle for school desegregation was just beginning. Over the next ten years, dozens of legal battles... Read more |
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