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Wet Dreamz x 2014 Forest Hills Drive Tour

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J. Cole x 2014 Forest Hills Drive Tour

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Highlights from the Handy-Book #7

"Maine Law. Maine was the first State which by an act of its Legislature (1851) placed a stringent prohibition on the sale of intoxicating drinks. Hence the term is often used colloquially as a designation of prohibitory laws in general, as one would say, 'Kansas, or Iowa, has adopted a 'Maine' law.'"

Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (1892)

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Highlights from the Handy-Book #6

"Hoist with his own petard, to be defeated by one's own device, caught in one's own trap. The petard was an iron canister filled with gunpowder, used for blowing up gates, barricades, etc. The danger was lest the engineer who fired the petard should be blown up with his own explosion."

Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (1892)

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Highlights from the Handy-Book #5

"Favorite leg. This humorous colloquialism, with its parallels, 'favorite corn,' etc., is traceable to Beau Brummel. Being seen limping on Bond Street, he explained that he had injured his leg, and, added he, 'the worst of it is, it was my favorite leg.'"

Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (1892)

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Highlights from the Handy-Book #4

"Ducks and drakes is, in the words of an old author quoted by Brand, 'a kind of sport or play with an oister-shell or stone thrown into the water, and making circles yer it sinke.' If the stone emerges once it is a duck, and increases in the following order:

'1, 2, A duck and a drake,

3 And a halfpenny cake,

4 And a penny to pay the old baker;

5 A hop and a scotch

is another notch,

6 Slitherum, slatherum, take her.'

From this game probably originated the phrase 'making ducks and drakes with one's money,' - i.e., throwing it away heedlessly. An early instance of the use of the phrase may be found in Strode's 'Floating Island.'"

Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (1892)

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Highlights from the Handy-Book #3

"Bosh, slang for nonsense, fudge; originally a Turkish word meaning empty or useless, it first appeared in England in 1834, when it was popularized by Morier's Oriental novel 'Ayesha.'"

Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (1892)

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Highlights from the Handy-Book #2

"Alexandra limp. One of the absurdest fads of toadying imitation. Princess Alexandra walks with a slight limp. Immediately after her marriage with the Prince of Wales (in 1860), an epidemic of lameness broke out among the petticoated hangers-on of royalty, which soon spread through all the female world of England, until it was happily laughed out of existence."

Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (1892)