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The trio say the use of such personal hotspots is fine in guests' rooms, but not in other areas of the hotel. They claim this has nothing to do with protecting cash trousered from selling expensive Wi-Fi access in such areas, just that the hotspots could cause networking problems and open up security holes, allegedly.
A Retro Boom Box With Modern Guts
By ROY FURCHGOTT
Music docks for
the iPhone tap into design sources ranging from architecture to
zeppelins, but iHome has borrowed from the iconic music source of the
'80s, the boombox, for its $200 iP4 iPod and phone dock.
In the NewsOne Writer’s Brooklyn:
Chronicles of Crime, Boombox Abuse and DivorceBy MICHAEL WILSON
After a six-year dry spell, the Brooklyn author Gabriel Cohen has hit on a writer’s hat trick: three books in three genres from three publishers, all reaching the shelves within a year.
They are often wedged in closets, collecting dust. Some inevitably end up between banana peels and apple cores in a landfill. In New York City, finding an appropriate final resting place for aging computers, boom boxes and televisions can be an arduous task.
boom box noun [C] US INFORMAL
a large radio and tape player you can carry with you
trouser Definition of trouser in English:
NOUN
Definition of wear many hats
: to have many jobs or roles She wears many hats: she's a doctor, a musician, and a writer.
do the trick
phrase of trick
- INFORMALachieve the required result."a coat of paint might have done the trick, making things that bit more cheery"
Hat trick
Meaning
A series of three consecutive successes, in sport or some other area of activity.
Origin
The sports pages of UK newspapers have been full of hat tricks recently, as there has been a spate of them at the start of the 2010 Premiership Football season. Didier Drogba, playing for Chelsea, narrowly missed out on being the first Premiership player to score a hat trick of hat tricks, i.e. three goals in each of three consecutive games. Those reports refer to players 'scoring a hat trick', but the first hat tricks weren't scored, they were 'taken'.
So, where does the term 'hat trick' come from? The first sport to be associated with the term was cricket. From the 1870s onward, 'hat tricks' are mentioned in cricketing literature; for example, this piece from James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1877:
Having on one occasion taken six wickets in seven balls, thus performing the hat-trick successfully.While that doesn't define what a hat trick is exactly, the arithmeticians amongst you will have noticed that, to take six wickets in seven balls, a bowler has to take at least three consecutive wickets.
The theory goes - and there aren't sufficient records to be precise about this - that if a bowler dismissed three batsmen in a row, a collection was taken and the proceeds were used to buy him a new hat. Either that, or a hat was passed round and the bowler trousered the proceeds. That explains 'hat', but why 'trick' exactly? The feat is difficult and is quite a rarity in cricket, there having been only 37 hat tricks in Test cricket history, but 'trick' doesn't seem the obvious word for it. What may well have influenced the choice of words was the sudden popularity of stage conjurers' 'Hat Tricks', which immediately preceded the first use of the term on the cricket field.
The magician's Hat Trick, where items, typically rabbits, bunches of flowers, streams of flags etc., are pulled out of a top hat, is well-known to us now but was a novelty in the 1860s. It isn't known who invented the trick. The first reference that I can find to it in print is from Punch magazine, 1858:Professor Willjabber Derby's Clever Hat-Trick. Wiljada Freckel was a clever German conjuror, who produced an infinity of objects from a hat.The trick is accomplished by either using a top hat with a false lid or by sleight of hand. It became something of a fad in Victorian England and, while 'hat trick' wasn't seen in print before 1858, the term appears many times in newspapers throughout the rest of the 19th century.
When cricketers in the 1870s wanted to give a name to an impressive achievement that involved a hat, what more obvious name than the currently pervading expression 'hat trick'?
The term was also appropriated from the variety stage for the political stage, where Victorian MPs were said to have 'done a hat trick' whenever they reserved their seat in the House of Commons by leaving their top hat on it.
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His inquiry, The New York Times' Jenny Anderson writes, conjures up memories of Eliot Spitzer, who as New York's previous attorney general took on Wall Street after the technology stock boom went bust. Mr. Spitzer, now governor, began his crusade by looking into tainted stock research and ended up delving into the arcane world of reinsurance.
conjure
v., -jured, -jur·ing, -jures. v.tr.
- To summon (a devil or spirit) by magical or supernatural power.
- To influence or effect by or as if by magic: tried to conjure away the doubts that beset her.
- To call or bring to mind; evoke: “Arizona conjures up an image of stark deserts for most Americans” (American Demographics).
- To imagine; picture: “a sight to store away, then conjure up someday when they were no longer together” (Nelson DeMille).
- Archaic. To call on or entreat solemnly, especially by an oath.
- To perform magic tricks, especially by sleight of hand.
- To summon a devil by magic or supernatural power.
- To practice black magic.
See hoodoo (sense 1).
adj. Chiefly Southern U.S.
Of or practicing folk magic: a conjure woman.
[Middle English conjuren, from Old French conjurer, to use a spell, from Late Latin coniūrāre, to pray by something holy, from Latin, to swear together : com-, com- + iūrāre, to swear.]
conjure
Line breaks: con|jure
Anne conjured up a delicious home-made hotpot
1.2 Call (an image) to the mind:
she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother’s face
1.3 (Of a word, sound, smell, etc.) cause someone to think of (something):
a special tune that conjures up a particular time and place
2 /kənˈdʒʊə, kənˈdʒɔː/ [ WITH OBJECT AND INFINITIVE] ARCHAICImplore (someone) to do something:
she conjured him to return
Origin
Middle English (also in the sense 'oblige by oath'): from Old French conjurer 'to plot or exorcise', from Latinconjurare 'band together by an oath, conspire' (in medieval Latin 'invoke'), from con- 'together' + jurare'swear'.
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