feign \FEYN\, verb:
1. To represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of.2. To invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse.3. To make believe; pretend.
Feign enters English through French, from the Latin fingere, "to shape, invent."
Maintenance Texts
- Sending text messages to those people you'd like to date "Someday" or "eventually" to remind them that you exist. It's a low effort way to maintain a connection without having to really commit to anything serious.
Q: "Have you heard from that guy you met in that bar last week?"
A: "Yeah, he's sent me a few maintenance texts tonight, asking where we were but not wanting to meet up. LAME!"
History
- Cleveland: the Forest City was named after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the group that surveyed the area (1796)
- Wiley Post: American aviator completed the first round-the-world solo flight (1933)
- John Dillinger: bank robber known as Public Enemy No. 1 was killed in a shootout with federal agents after seeing a movie in Chicago (1934)
- King David Hotel: Jerusalem landmark was bombed by the Irgun in an attack on the British (1946)
- Iraq: Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay were killed by US forces in Mosul; POW Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Lynch returned home to West Virginia (2003)
- Gregor Mendel 1822
- Steve Vincent Benet 1889
- Rose Kennedy 1890
- Karl Menninger 1893
- Alexander Calder 1898
- Bob Dole 1923
- Martha Whiting 1924
- Orson Bean 1928
- Marcia Henderson 1930
- Perry Lopez 1931
- Oscar De La Renta 1932
- Louise Fletcher 1934
- Chuck Jackson 1937
- Terence Stamp 1939
- Alex Trebek 1940
- George Clinton 1940
- Thomas Wayne 1941
- Bobby Sherman 1944
- Richard Davies (Supertramp) 1944
- Estelle Bennett (The Ronettes) 1944
- Paul Shrader 1946
- Danny Glover 1947
- Albert Brooks 1947
- Don Henley (Eagles) 1947
- Alan Menken 1949
- William Dafoe 1955
- Keith Sweat 1961
- Rob Estes 1963
- Joanna Going 1963
- Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) 1963
- David Spade 1964
- John Leguizamo 1965
- Patrick Labyorteaux 1965
- Irene Bedard 1967
- Laura Clery 1986
- Selena Gomez 1991
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