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A mumpsimus (/ ˈ m ʌ m p s ɪ m ə s / MUHMP-sih-məs) is a "traditional custom obstinately adhered to however unreasonable it may be", [1] or "someone who obstinately clings to an error, bad habit or prejudice, even after the foible has been exposed and the person humiliated; also, any error, bad habit, or prejudice clung to in this fashion ...
clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast; they thought, if only Casey could get but a whack at that – they'd put up even money, now, with Casey at the bat. But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake, and the former was a lulu and the latter was a cake, so upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
Cluny Brown is a 1946 American romantic comedy film made by Twentieth Century-Fox starring Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones.It was directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch following a screenplay written by Samuel Hoffenstein and Elizabeth Reinhardt based on the 1944 novel by Margery Sharp.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
Clarence Erwin McClung (April 5, 1870 – January 17, 1946) was an eminent American zoologist and prairie pioneer cytologist who discovered the role of chromosomes in sex-determination.
Cling may refer to: "Cling", a song by Days of the New from their 1997 album Days of the New; Cling, a C++ interpreter; see CINT "Cling Cling", a song by Japanese girl group Perfume from the 2014 album Cosmic Explorer
All Is Lost is a 2013 action drama film [7] written and directed by J. C. Chandor.The film stars Robert Redford as a man lost at sea. [A] Redford is the only cast member, and the film has 51 spoken English words.
Christopher Robin Milne (21 August 1920 – 20 April 1996) was an English author and bookseller and the only child of author A. A. Milne.As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems.