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  • 1To live from hand to mouth — Hand Hand (h[a^]nd), n. [AS. hand, hond; akin to D., G., & Sw. hand, OHG. hant, Dan. haand, Icel. h[ o]nd, Goth. handus, and perh. to Goth. hin[thorn]an to seize (in comp.). Cf. {Hunt}.] 1. That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in …

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  • 2Charles Baudouine — (June 1, 1808 January 13, 1895[1]) was an American cabinetmaker and interior decorator, and was the patriarch of a major family in New York society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Life and Work Born in New York of Huguenot… …

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  • 3Benjamin Tucker — Infobox Writer name = Benjamin Tucker |thumb|right|Benjamin Ricketson Tucker imagesize = caption = pseudonym = birthname = birthdate = April 17, 1854 birthplace = deathdate = June 22, 1939 deathplace = Monaco occupation = writer nationality =… …

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  • 4Individualist anarchism — Individualist anarchismWarren supported private property and trade. However, he held the labor theory of value, and from that he concluded that labor should always trade for an equal amount of labor. He believed that exchanges of unequal amounts… …

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  • 5drone — I. n. 1. Male honey bee. 2. Idler, sluggard, lounger, idle fellow, lazy fellow, do nothing, good for nothing. 3. Humming, humming noise. 4. Droning pipe (in bagpipe), drone pipe. II. v. n. 1. Lounge, dawdle, idle, waste time in trifles, live in… …

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  • 6барствовать — БАРСТВОВАТЬ, несов. Вести себя изнеженно, не работая, проводя жизнь в праздности, безделье, но имея деньги, средства к существованию и используя их на удовлетворение своих прихотей; жить в свое удовольствие [impf. to live in idleness and plenty] …

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  • 7drone — drone1 [drōn] n. [ME < OE dran, akin to OS dran, MLowG drone < IE * dhren < base * dher , to buzz, hum > DOR(BEETLE)] 1. a male bee or ant which serves only in a reproductive capacity and does no work 2. an idle person who lives by… …

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  • 8AQUINAS, THOMAS° — (1225–1274), most important of the Christian medieval philosophers. Born near Aquino, the son of a count, Aquinas entered a Dominican order at the age of 19 against the will of his family. He studied under the Dominican scholar Albertus Magnus in …

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  • 9Conspicuous leisure — Idleness, by John William Godward, ca 1900 Conspicuous leisure is a term introduced by the American economist Thorstein Veblen, in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). The term denotes visible leisure for the sake of displaying social status.… …

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  • 10The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …

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