aleatory \EY-lee-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, AL-ee-\, adjective:
- of or pertaining to accidental causes; of luck or chance; unpredictable: an aleatory element.
- Music. employing the element of chance in the choice of tones, rests, durations, rhythms, dynamics, etc.
Hailing from the Latin word meaning "the dice" or "chance" alea, aleatory first surfaced in English in the late seventeenth century.
skirt chaser
- A male who feels compelled to pursue and/or ogle all females.
Sarah couldn't seem to escape Kenny's gaze, and she thought of him as a skirt chaser.
Trivia
What unacceptable condition did Hollywood legend Spencer Tracy set when he was offered the role of the Penguin in the 1966 Batman TV series?
- That he be allowed to kill Batman. The role went to the less demanding Burgess Meredith.
- Reign of Terror: Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was guillotined (1794)
- pyroclastic flow: Martinique's Mt. Pelée erupted a cloud of hot gas, ash and rock, killing 40,000 people (1902)
- eye bank: a collection of corneas donated after death was established for the first time, in New York City (1944)
- V-E Day: the UK and US celebrated their victory over Nazi Germany, a day after Germany signed an unconditional surrender (1945)
Birthdays
- Miguel Hidalgo 1753
- Jean Henri Dunant 1828
- Oscar Hammerstein 1847
- Harry S. Truman (U.S.) 1884
- Francis Desales Ouimet 1893
- Bishop Fulton Sheen 1895
- Robert Johnson 1911
- Lex Barker 1919
- Don Rickles 1926
- Sonny Liston 1932
- Thomas Pynchon 1937
- Rick Nelson 1940
- Peter Benchley 1940
- James Mitchum 1941
- John Fred (John Fred and His Playboy Band) 1941
- Toni Tennille 1943
- Paul Samwell-Smith (Yardbirds) 1943
- Chris Frantz (Talking Heads) 1951
- Phillip Bailey (Earth, Wind and Fire) 1951
- Billy Burnette 1954 - Musician (Fleetwood Mac)
- David Keith 1954
- Stephen Furst 1954
- Alex Van Halen 1955 - Musician (Van Halen)
- Ronnie Lott 1959
- Eric Brittingham 1960 - Musician (Cinderella)
- Dave Rowntree (Blur) 1964
- Del Gray (Little Texas) 1968
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