Friday, March 19, 2010

cozen \KUZ-un\, transitive verb:

1. To cheat; to defraud; to deceive, usually by petty tricks.
2. To obtain by deceit.

intransitive verb:

1. To act deceitfully.

Cozen perhaps derives from Early Modern French cousiner, "to defraud; literally to treat as if a cousin (hence to claim to be a cousin in order to defraud)," from Old French cosin.

Virgin Ears

• A person who has been vaguely exposed to sex, drugs, profanities and doesnt have a tight grasp on reality.

Susie has a pair of virgin ears.
Trivia
Who coined the words eyeball, madcap, and unreal?

• William Shakespeare. Eyeball first appeared in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; madcap, in Love’s Labor’s Lost; and unreal, in Macbeth.

History

• SS Georgiana: Confederate ship was wrecked (1863); it was discovered on the same date in 1965 by underwater archeologist E. Lee Spence in his teenage years
• 25th Academy Awards: was the first televised Oscar ceremony (1953)
• invasion of Iraq: began (on March 20 local time in Iraq, 2003)
• GRB 080319B: gamma-ray burst was detected, thus setting a record for farthest object that could be seen by the naked eye (2008)

Birthdays

• Vida Guerra (36): bootay model
• David Livingstone (1813-1873): missionary and explorer; another explorer born on this date was Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890)
• Wyatt Earp (1848-1929): frontier lawman and gambler
• William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925): politician and orator who was the prosecutor in the Scopes trial
• Earl Warren (1891-1974): 14th Chief Justice of the US; plus, jurist John Sirica (1904-1992)
• Philip Roth (77): Pulitzer Prize winner for American Pastoral; plus, writer Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852 OS)
• Harvey Weinstein (57): producer and co-founder of Miramax
• Bruce Willis (55): actor, Die Hard; actors Patrick McGoohan (1928-2008), Glenn Close (63), Abby Brammell (31) and Craig Lamar Traylor (21) also share a birthday today