"'Dante and the Lobster', features Belacqua's horrified reaction to the discovery that the lobster he has bought for dinner must be boiled alive. 'It's a quick death, God help us all', Belacqua tells himself, before the narrator's stern interjection to the contrary: 'It is not.' 'The Smeraldina's Billet Doux' is a love letter to Belacqua in fractured English by the German-speaking Smeraldina Rima, a character based on Beckett's cousin Peggy Sinclair. Other real-life originals of ""More Pricks Than Kicks"" characters include Mary Manning Howe (the Caleken Frica), Ethna MacCarthy (the Alba) and Lucia Joyce (the Syra Cusa). Almost uniquely for"
"Billet reading Billet reading, or the envelope trick, is a mentalist effect in which a performer pretends to use clairvoyance to read messages on folded papers or inside sealed envelopes. It is a widely performed ""standard"" of the mentalist craft since the middle of the 19th century. ""Billet"" is the French term for note or letter, referring to the rectangular shape of the paper. The mentalist provides paper, pencils and envelopes to the audience, who are asked to write statements on the paper and then seal them in the envelopes. The envelopes are then collected and handed to the mentalist."
"borrowed from similar routines performed by Steve Allen (""The Answer Man"") and Ernie Kovacs (""Mr. Question Man""). Billet reading Billet reading, or the envelope trick, is a mentalist effect in which a performer pretends to use clairvoyance to read messages on folded papers or inside sealed envelopes. It is a widely performed ""standard"" of the mentalist craft since the middle of the 19th century. ""Billet"" is the French term for note or letter, referring to the rectangular shape of the paper. The mentalist provides paper, pencils and envelopes to the audience, who are asked to write statements on the paper"
"livres, or 2.7% of the Royal Treasury's revenue. Don gratuit The don graduit or ""free gift"" in English, was a voluntary contribution to royal finances paid by the First Estate (the clergy) under France's ancien regime. Since they were exempt from taxation such as capitation, the first estate was first requested to pay the don graduit to fund the fight against the Huguenots under Henry IV and then from 1636 for the defence of the kingdom during the wars against the Protestant states. From Louis XIV's reign, the gift became customary. The amount paid was very variable. Between 1715 and"
"DONT In the card game contract bridge, DONT is a conventional overcall used to interfere with an opponent's one notrump (1NT) opening bid. DONT, an acronym for Disturb Opponents' Notrump, was designed by Marty Bergen, and is therefore also referred to as ""Bergen over Notrump"". Although the method is often criticized for being too nebulous, it remains fairly popular. The convention was first published in the September/October 1989 issue of ""Bridge Today"". In DONT, the two-level overcalls of trump show a two suiter of the suit bid and an unspecified higher-ranking suit. The feature distinguishing DONT from other similar conventions"
"Allonge An allonge (from French ""allonger"", ""to draw out"") is a slip of paper affixed to a negotiable instrument, as a bill of exchange, for the purpose of receiving additional endorsements for which there may not be sufficient space on the bill itself. An endorsement written on the allonge is deemed to be written on the bill itself. An allonge is more usually met with in countries using the Napoleonic Code, as the code requires every endorsement to express the consideration. Under English law, the simple signature of the endorser on the bill, without additional words, is sufficient to operate"
"Barratt brand, now owned by Tangerine Confectionery. ""The Goon Show"" character Bluebottle was frequently rewarded or bribed, with a quantity of dolly mixture, jelly babies, or similar sweets. Dolly mixture Dolly mixture is a British confection, consisting of a variety of multi-coloured fondant shapes, such as cubes and cylinders, with subtle flavourings. The mixture consists of small soft sweets and sugar-coated jellies. The origins of the name are unknown, but some people have speculated it originated around the time of the British Raj in India, where ""dal"" (or ""dahl"") is a dried mixture of beans, peas, or legumes of different"
"suit may be deficient. DONT In the card game contract bridge, DONT is a conventional overcall used to interfere with an opponent's one notrump (1NT) opening bid. DONT, an acronym for Disturb Opponents' Notrump, was designed by Marty Bergen, and is therefore also referred to as ""Bergen over Notrump"". Although the method is often criticized for being too nebulous, it remains fairly popular. The convention was first published in the September/October 1989 issue of ""Bridge Today"". In DONT, the two-level overcalls of trump show a two suiter of the suit bid and an unspecified higher-ranking suit. The feature distinguishing DONT"
"because it bears an image of the common loon, a bird. The two-dollar coin is known as the ""toonie"", a portmanteau combining the number ""two"" with ""loonie"". It is occasionally spelled ""twonie""; Canadian newspapers and the Royal Canadian Mint use the ""toonie"" spelling. A five-dollar note is known colloquially as a ""fin"", a ""fiver"", or ""half a sawbuck"". A ten-dollar note is known colloquially as ""a ten-spot"", a ""dixie"", or a ""sawbuck"". A twenty-dollar note is known colloquially as ""QE11"", or a ""Betty#2"" (after its portrait of Queen Elizabeth II). A one hundred-dollar note is known colloquially as a ""C-Note"","
"Don gratuit The don graduit or ""free gift"" in English, was a voluntary contribution to royal finances paid by the First Estate (the clergy) under France's ancien regime. Since they were exempt from taxation such as capitation, the first estate was first requested to pay the don graduit to fund the fight against the Huguenots under Henry IV and then from 1636 for the defence of the kingdom during the wars against the Protestant states. From Louis XIV's reign, the gift became customary. The amount paid was very variable. Between 1715 and 1788, the clergy would have contributed 288 million"
"as a negotiation and so an allonge is seldom necessary. Allonge An allonge (from French ""allonger"", ""to draw out"") is a slip of paper affixed to a negotiable instrument, as a bill of exchange, for the purpose of receiving additional endorsements for which there may not be sufficient space on the bill itself. An endorsement written on the allonge is deemed to be written on the bill itself. An allonge is more usually met with in countries using the Napoleonic Code, as the code requires every endorsement to express the consideration. Under English law, the simple signature of the endorser"
"(""billette"", a note, a letter of formal exchange, later a bill of exchange and later still a cheque). These deposited funds were intended to be held for the settlement of grain trades, but often were used for the bench's own trades in the meantime. The term bankrupt is a corruption of the Italian ""banca rotta"", or broken bench, which is what happened when someone lost his traders' deposits. Being ""broke"" has the same connotation. A sensible manner of discounting interest to the depositors against what could be earned by employing their money in the trade of the bench soon developed;"
"Billet A billet is a living quarters to which a soldier is assigned to sleep. Historically, a billet was a private dwelling that was required to accept the soldier. Soldiers are generally billeted in barracks or garrisons when not on combat duty, although in some armies soldiers with families are permitted to maintain a home off-post. Used for a building, the term is more commonly used in British English; United States standard terms are quarters, barracks, ""Single (Soldier) Housing"" or ""Family Housing"". Originally, a ""billet"" (from the French) was a note, commonly used in the 18th and early 19th centuries"
"cards, when captured by the high bidder, lower the point threshold needed to fulfill the contract. In colloquial French, ""oudlers"" are often referred to as ""bouts"" (ends). The ranking of the hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades from the top is: King, Queen, Knight, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (Ace). As an aside, the trumps and Fool can be removed to yield a 56-card deck very similar to a 52-card French deck but with the additional ""Cavalier"" (knight, lit. horseman) court card in each suit. This deck configuration, plus the Fool, was copied using culture-neutral"
"any money from it. According to the ""Evening Chronicle"", her controversial design became ""one of the most famous record sleeves of all time"" and led to Gilbert becoming the recipient of ""global attention."" In 1985, the Royal Mail issued four stamps that were designed by Gilbert. They featured scenes from Arthurian mythology, and were meant to celebrate the quincentenary of the publication of Thomas Malory's ""Le Morte d'Arthur"". Gilbert has also created special sets of Christmas stamps for the Royal Mail. According to Gilbert in a 2005 interview, the company had paid her at least £100,000 in the past to"
"by a court to a wife who could prove that her husband was unfit in some way to administer their property. Marriage contracts were often used to alter the rules of inheritance and to provide the surviving spouse and family with one or more financial safeguard(s). The most important such safeguard was dower (""douaire""), a fixed sum set aside for the wife to live on in the event of her husband's death and drawn from half of the marriage community reserved for the minor heirs. The dower could take two forms: dower by custom (""douaire coutumier""), the income drawn from"
"Porta, Domine Dominus Noster, etc. Often these jetons were given as presents or ""pieces de plaisir ""especially to persons of high consideration, and on such occasions they were often specially struck in gold or silver. One particular and very common use of jetons was to serve as vouchers for attendance at the cathedral offices and meetings of various kinds. In this case they often carried with them a title to certain rations or payments of money, the amount being sometimes stamped on the piece. The tokens thus used were known as ""jetons de présence"" or ""méreaux"", and they were largely"
"Méreau (token) Méreau (plural: ""méreaux""; obsolete spelling: ""merel, merelles, marelles, mereaulx"") was a token, most often made of metal, sometimes from leather or parchment, used in France during late Middle Age and Reformation. Its name goes back to , ""to deserve"". Méreaux emerged in churches as tokens that entitled clergy to receive certain amount of bread or other food in rather great amount (part of which was supposed to be later distributed among the poor). In the 15th century there were méreaux of high nominal: 5, 20, 30 and 45 deniers, and priests could exchange them into real coins. Méreaux"
"values of all these cards are totalled for each suit, ace counting 11, court cards 10 and numerals their face value. The ""best suit"" is the one with the highest visible total, and the player holding the highest card of it wins the pot, provided that he has not previously dropped. If he has, the winner is the player counting the greatest face value of cards in any other suit. Une Douillotte is French for a Hot-water Bottle Bouillotte Bouillotte is an 18th-century French gambling card game of the Revolution based on Brelan, very popular during the 19th century in"
"cuts. The dealer then deals 2 packets of four cards to each player in clockwise order. The last four cards are placed face down on the table to form the ""Dobb"". The role of dealer does not rotate; instead the last declarer becomes the dealer. There are basically two types of contract: If none of the players announces a contract, i.e. they all say ""pass"" (""weiter""), the cards are thrown in and the same dealer deals a new hand. In ""Dobbm"" the declarer picks up the ""Dobb"" without revealing its cards and discards four cards face down. Sows may only"
"Bolachen, a name which is linguistically close to the Austro-Bavarian, Polacheln. While special 32-card, French-suited Préférence packs with a special pattern are available in Austria, in regions such as Salzburg and its surrounding area, Double German cards are preferred. All 32 cards of a Piquet deck or Tell deck are dealt following the scheme 3–talon–4–3, so that each player receives a hand of 10 cards and there remains a talon of 2 cards. The players bid for the privilege of becoming the soloist and declaring the trump suit and mode of play. Each bid has a corresponding hand version (i.e."
"Belote Belote () is a 32-card, trick-taking, Ace-Ten game played primarily in France and certain European countries, namely Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Moldova. It is one of the most popular card games in those countries, and the national card game of France, both casually and in gambling. It was invented around 1920 in France, and is a close relative of both Klaberjass (also known as bela) and Klaverjas. Closely related games are played throughout the world. Definitive rules of the game were first published in 1921. Within the game's terminology, ""belote"" is used to designate a pair of a King"
"two kinds- Adhoc and regular. The adhoc bills are issued for investment by the state governments, semi government departments and foreign central banks for temporary investment. They are not sold to banks and general public. The treasury bills sold to the public and banks are called regular treasury bills. They are freely marketable and commercial banks buy entire quantities of such bills, issued on tender. They are bought and sold on discount basis. Ad-hoc bills were abolished in April 1997. Repo is an abbreviation for Repurchase agreement, which involves a simultaneous ""sale and purchase"" agreement. When banks have any shortage"
"or """"bill"""" (e.g. """"two bills"""" being $200). The $50 note is occasionally called a """"yardstick"""" or a """"grant"""" (after President Ulysses S. Grant, pictured on the obverse). The $20 note is referred to as a """"double sawbuck"""", """"Jackson"""" (after Andrew Jackson), or ""double eagle"". The $10 note is referred to as a """"sawbuck"""", """"ten-spot"""" or """"Hamilton"""" (after Alexander Hamilton). The $5 note as """"Lincoln"""", """"fin"""", """"fiver"""" or """"five-spot"""". The infrequently-used $2 note is sometimes called """"deuce"""", """"Tom"""", or """"Jefferson"""" (after Thomas Jefferson). The $1 note as a """"single"""" or """"buck"""". The dollar has also been referred to as a """"bone"""""
"introduced by an employee of the Bank who was a member of Société des Fils de la Liberté, a militant wing of the Assembly of the Six Counties, or by someone at the bank sympathetic to their cause. All of the bank's directors came under suspicion of being rebels, and warrants were later issued for their arrest. As the popularity of the bouquet sou grew in Lower Canada, further anonymous speculators started to import new tokens from Birmingham, England, from the mint that designed the original bouquet sou for the Bank of Montreal. These bouquet sou tend to have the"
"raises and 2NT responses were forcing except in competition, opening three bids in minor suits invited 3NT (solid suit or near-solid with outside entry). The general tenor of the system was closer to the Standard American of the day than to Acol; The CAB system, rarely played today, was the 'house' bidding system of the Hamilton Club, one of the high-class London rubber bridge clubs at the time. According to Mollo, Dodds used to win some £4,000 a year at the Hamilton, a huge sum in the 1950s. His bridge career was cut short by a cerebral haemorrhage (stroke) in"
"Bride price Bride price, bridewealth, or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry. Bride price can be compared to dowry, which is paid to the groom, or used by the bride to help establish the new household, and dower, which is property settled on the bride herself by the groom at the time of marriage. Some cultures may practice both dowry and bride price simultaneously. Many cultures practiced bride pricing prior to existing"
"to whatever and whomever she pleased. It may have become the property of her next marriage, been given to an ecclesiastical institution, or been inherited by her children from other relationships than that from which she received it. In English legal history, there were originally five kinds of dower: (1) ""ad ostium ecclesiae"", or at the church porch; (2) ""ex assensu patris""; (3) ""de la plus belle""; (4) at common law; (5) by custom. Dower is thought to have been suggested by the bride price which Tacitus found to be usual among the Germans. This bride price he terms ""dos"","
"i.e. reduced-price monthly and yearly passes to those in low income brackets. This reduction is calculated based on the ""quotient familial"" of the subscriber. The is a measure used by the French administration and is roughly equal to 1/12 of a household's annual income divided by the number of fiscal members in the household for tax purposes. For subscribers with a ""quotient familial"" of less than €750 reductions are calculated on a scale from 50% reduction to 90% reduction in price of the monthly pass. The Badgéo smart card, costing €4, allows the user to purchase any ticket or subscription"
"result, the Third Amendment to the United States Constitution provides restrictions on the manner in which the Federal government of the United States may require civilians to provide housing for American soldiers. ""Billet"" can mean a specific personnel position, assignment, or duty station which may be filled by one person, most commonly used by the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Coast Guard. Every person reporting aboard a ship or shore installation in the naval services is assigned a billet according to the unit ""watch, quarter and station bill"", which shows the duties, stations"
"Bill of lading A bill of lading (sometimes abbreviated as B/L or BoL) is a document issued by a carrier (or their agent) to acknowledge receipt of cargo for shipment. Although in England, the term once related only to carriage by sea, a bill of lading may be used for any type of carriage of goods. Bills of lading are one of three crucial documents used in international trade to ensure that exporters receive payment and importers receive the merchandise. The other two documents are a policy of insurance and an invoice. Whereas a bill of lading is negotiable, both"
"""Sküs"", is unmarked. They assume the role of permanent trumps or ""atouts"": in almost all games (apart from the ""Suit contracts"") they trump the suit cards. Six tarocks play a special role and are thus given names. Cards I to IIII are commonly called Birds (""Vogerl"" or ""Vögel""): The Sküs, Mond and Pagat together form the 'Honours' or ""Trull"". These three have a much high card value than the other tarocks (see Card values). These names were originally derived from the French and Italian: ""excuse"" (pronounced ""ex-kooz"", meaning ""excuse [me]""), ""le monde"" (the world, corresponding to card XXI in French"
"show support for Second Amendment rights, particularly at stores that allow open carry or concealed carry of weapons on their premises. Two-dollar notes have also seen increased usage in situations where tipping is encouraged, especially in gentlemen's clubs. This is due to the idea that tips will increase because of the ease of use of a single, higher-denomination bill as the lowest common note in use. The use of the two-dollar bill is popular among fans and alumni of Clemson University, who often bring notes with them when traveling to university athletic events in other localities as a demonstration of"