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Anderson

, Dame Judith 1898-1992.
Australian-born actress noted for her roles in the plays of Shakespeare and Eugene O'Neill and for her chilling portrayal of Mrs. Danvers in the 1940 film Rebecca.

Anderson

, Margaret Caroline 1886-1973.
American editor who founded and edited The Little Review (1914-1929), an influential literary magazine.

Anderson

, Marian 1897-1993.
American contralto. Acclaimed for her renditions of spirituals, she was the first African-American singer to perform at New York City's Metropolitan Opera (1955).

Anderson

, Sherwood 1876-1941.
American writer whose often autobiographical works include Winesburg, Ohio (1919).
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Anderson

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(Placename) a river in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories, rising in lakes north of Great Bear Lake and flowing west and north to the Beaufort Sea. Length: about 580 km (360 miles)

Anderson

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1. (Biography) Carl David. 1905–91, US physicist, who discovered the positron in cosmic rays (1932): Nobel prize for physics 1936
2. (Biography) Elizabeth Garrett. 1836–1917, English physician and feminist: a campaigner for the admission of women to the professions
3. (Biography) John. 1893–1962, Australian philosopher, born in Scotland, whose theories are expounded in Studies in Empirical Philosophy (1962)
4. (Biography) Dame Judith, real name Frances Margaret Anderson. 1898–1992, Australian stage and film actress
5. (Biography) Lindsay (Gordon) 1923–94, British film and theatre director: his films include This Sporting Life (1963), If (1968), O Lucky Man! (1973), and The Whales of August (1987)
6. (Biography) Marian. 1902–93, US contralto, the first Black permanent member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York
7. (Biography) Philip Warren. born 1923, US physicist, noted for his work on solid-state physics. Nobel prize for physics 1977
8. (Biography) Sherwood. 1874–1941, US novelist and short-story writer, best known for Winesburg Ohio (1919), a collection of short stories illustrating small-town life
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An•der•son

(ˈæn dər sən)

n.
1. Carl David, 1905–91, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1936.
2. Dame Judith, 1898–1992, Australian actress.
3. Marian, 1902–93, U.S. contralto.
4. Maxwell, 1888–1959, U.S. playwright.
5. Sherwood, 1876–1941, U.S. author.
6. a city in central Indiana. 60,720.
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Noun1.Anderson - United States author whose works were frequently autobiographical (1876-1941)Anderson - United States author whose works were frequently autobiographical (1876-1941)
2.Anderson - United States physicist who studied the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems (1923-)
3.Anderson - United States dramatist (1888-1959)
4.Anderson - United States contralto noted for her performance of spirituals (1902-1993)
5.Anderson - United States physicist who discovered antimatter in the form of an antielectron that is called the positron (1905-1991)
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You must have had Miss Anderson in your eye, in describing an altered young lady.
we are sinking!" At first the passengers were much frightened, but Captain Anderson hastened to reassure them.
Paul's above the irregular spires of Ludgate Hill, she pulled the cord impulsively, and gave directions that Anderson should drive them there.
The boatswain, Job Anderson, was the likeliest man aboard, and though he kept his old title, he served in a way as mate.
I must, indeed, say, I never saw a fonder couple; but what is their fondness good for, but to torment each other?" "Indeed, mamma," cries Nancy, "I have always looked on my cousin Anderson" (for that was her name) "as one of the happiest of women." "I am sure," says Mrs Miller, "the case at present is much otherwise; for any one might have discerned that the tender consideration of each other's sufferings makes the most intolerable part of their calamity, both to the husband and wife.
Gardener had gone to Omaha to hear Booth and Barrett, who were to play there next week, and that Mary Anderson was having a great success in `A Winter's Tale,' in London.
Langtry and Mary Anderson. He read Punch and the Sporting Times .
Students of criminology will remember the analogous incidents in Godno, in Little Russia, in the year '66, and of course there are the Anderson murders in North Carolina, but this case possesses some features which are entirely its own.
Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case.
'John Anderson, My Jo'; reflective sentiment; feeling for nature; sympathy with animals; vigorous patriotism, as in 'Scots Wha Hae' (and Burns did much to revive the feeling of Scots for Scotland); deep tragedy and pathos; instinctive happiness; delightful humor; and the others.
- Schooner "Florrie Anderson" lost, with all aboard, off the Georges.
He spoke so kindly, and opened Hans Andersons's fairy tales so invitingly before me, that I was more ashamed than ever, and went at my lesson in a neck-or-nothing style that seemed to amuse him immensely.