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...drinking water. The over-crowding and disease appalled visitors. Behind one row of houses, Charles Dickens noted "a cesspool, bubbling and seething with the constant rise of the foul products of decomposition." The grubby, "consumptive-looking ducks" swimming upon it, he wrote in 1857, resembled "the human dwellers in fould alleys as to their depressed and haggard physiognomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: G-20 Site: 'A Cesspool, Bubbling with the Foul Products of Decomposition' | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

English writers may have claimed St. Valentine's Day for the Christians when Geoffrey Chaucer linked the day to a medieval myth of mating birds. "For this was on Seynt Valentynes Day, /Whan every fould cometh there to chese his make," Chauser wrote in his "Parliament of Fowls." Apparently, the birds come together on St. Valentine's Day to celebrate the beauty of spring by enjoying their new mates. This was not such a happy occassion for the poet, who complains in the poem about swarms of mating birds, who tormented him with their noise and crowded the poor poet...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: Sex, Lies and Valentine | 2/14/1996 | See Source »

...Fould Out--Hayes, Collins. Total fouls--Harvard 23, Yale 14, Rebounds--Harvard 38 (Collins 9), Yale 36 (Patton 9), Assists--Harvard 9 (Joseph 3), Yale 13 (LeComte...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Joseph's Finale Grand, but Late Yale Surge Overtakes Faltering Women Cagers, 65-56 | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...Fould Out-Ferry, Carrabino (ejected). Smyth (ejected). Total fouls-Harvard 20, Princeton 14. Rebounds-Harvard 26 (Carrabino 14), Princeton 19 (Bubniak 6). Assists-Harvard 12 (Dencan5). Princeton 15 (Belz...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Tigers Knock Out Crimson Cagers, 52-45 | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...front Diagle on defense to cut off a possible lob pass, while guards Pat Horne and Anne Scannell waited behind her to slap the ball from her hands it the pass got through. That defensive ploy worked well, but playing defense has its costs. Both Horne and Scannell fould out in the last minutes of play...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Crimson Hoopsters Fall to Big Green Attack, To Face Penn Saturday in Second Ivy Game | 12/2/1982 | See Source »

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