…short for my (representing the pronunciation used by lawyers in court to refer to or address the judge or a fellow barrister on the same side).…
…the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equal to 100 centimeters or approximately 39.37 inches…
…an aromatic plant native to temperate regions of the Old World, several kinds of which are used as culinary herbs…
…said by someone when offered a choice to indicate that they have no particular preference…
…(1917-), US architect, born in China; full name Ieoh Ming Pei. He designed monumental public buildings, including the east wing of the National Gallery of Art 1978 in Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Library 1979 in Boston, and the pyramid entrance to the Louvre 1983–89 in Paris…
…(1862–1936), English scholar and writer of ghost stories; full name Montague Rhodes James. He is noted for eerie tales collected in such volumes as Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904)…
…(1871–1909), Irish playwright; full name Edmund John Millington Synge. His The Playboy of the Western World (1907) caused riots at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, because of its explicit language and its implication that Irish peasants would condone a brutal murder…
…(1887–1970), Australian-born British cartoonist; full name Henry Mayo Bateman. He is known for the series of cartoons entitled ‘The Man Who ...’, which illustrated social gaffes based on snobbery…
…(1940-), South African novelist; full name John Maxwell Coetzee. Notable works: In the Heart of the Country (1977), Life & Times of Michael K (1983), White Writing (1988), and Age of Iron (1990). Nobel Prize for Literature (2003)…
…(1898–1972), Dutch graphic artist; full name Maurits Corneille Escher. His prints are characterized by their sophisticated use of visual illusion…
…(1879–1970), English novelist and literary critic; full name Edward Morgan Forster. His novels include A Room with a View (1908) and A Passage to India (1924)…
…(1825–94), Scottish author; full name Robert Michael Ballantyne. He wrote acclaimed adventure stories, such as The Coral Island (1857)…
…(1878–1942), US composer, playwright, actor, and producer; full name George Michael Cohan. Among his best known songs are “Yankee Doodle Dandy” (1904) and “Give My Regards to Broadway” (1904)…
…used to express one’s disbelief or as a way of underlining an emphatic assertion…
…(1874–1942), Canadian novelist; full name Lucy Maud Montgomery. She is noted for Anne of Green Gables (1908) and its sequels, set on Prince Edward Island…
…(1775–1851), English painter; full name Joseph Mallord William Turner. He painted landscapes and stormy seascapes and became increasingly concerned with depicting the power of light with primary colors, often arranged in a swirling vortex. Notable works: Rain, Steam, Speed (1844) and The Fighting Téméraire (1838)…
…(1823–78) US politician; known as Boss Tweed. As a New York City official and a state senator 1867–71, he became the leader of Tammany Hall, the executive committee of New York City’s Democratic Party and a ring of political corruption, that swindled the state treasury out of as much as $200 million. Convicted in 1873, he fled to Cuba and then Spain, but was extradited in 1876 and returned to a New York jail, where he died…
…(1860–1937), Scottish dramatist and novelist; full name Sir James Matthew Barrie. He wrote Peter Pan (1904), a fantasy for children about a boy who would not grow up. Other notable plays include The Admirable Crichton (1902)…
…(1896–1969), US politician; full name Everett McKinley Dirksen. An Illinois Republican, he was a member of the US House of Representatives 1933–49 and a US senator 1951–69…
…(1925-), English linguist; full name Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday…
…(of a person) feeling concern, distress, or annoyance; having strong feelings about something…
…a New World songbird with dark plumage and a relatively short bill, typically laying its eggs in other birds' nests…
…a fragrant herbaceous plant of the pea family, native to Eurasia and north Africa, now widespread and sometimes grown as forage or green manure…
