* World Wide Words — Michael Quinion writes about the changing use of the term, as does Progress Online

Michael Quinion states that it is probably from the 16th-century Italian word, meaning " a despicable person ".

* Michael Quinion, " World Wide Words "; Panorama

According to Michael Quinion on his World Wide Words website the word was first coined on 21 May 1944 by Maury Maverick, a congressman from Texas.

* Alt-usage-english. org Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave, " Merkin "

* Boffin: World Wide Words entry by Michael Quinion

* Explanation from WorldWideWords by Michael Quinion ( supports the IHC theory )

In 2004, Michael Quinion, a British etymologist and writer, postulated that the " john " in the item of apparel may be a reference to Sullivan, who wore a similar-looking garment in the ring.

Michael Quinion surmises the rhyme was already established before this date.

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Michael Quinion identified the first known ( printed ) use of the term gandy dancer as 1918.

" Michael Quinion cites a dictionary entry indicating that the blue plates were, more specifically, inexpensive divided plates that were decorated with a " blue willow " or similar blue pattern, such as those popularized by Spode and Wedgwood.

* Blue Plate Special A competing explanation by Michael Quinion

Michael Quinion of the World Wide Words website enumerates the myths regarding the origin of this phrase:

Michael Quinion of the " World Wide Words " newsletter says that it is known in Welsh as pwdre sêr ( rot of the stars ).

Michael Quinion, advisor to The Oxford English Dictionary and author of World Wide Words says " It ’ s more than likely the term came from them ".

Some, such as the etymologist Michael Quinion, considered the ruling showed that " the historic term of art had moved on ".

However, the subsequent period saw the departure of manager van Gaal along with an exodus of many key players including Clarence Seedorf in 1995 ; Edgar Davids, Michael Reiziger, Finidi George, and Nwankwo Kanu in 1996 ; Patrick Kluivert, Marc Overmars, and Winston Bogarde in 1997 ; Ronald de Boer and Frank de Boer in 1998 ; and Edwin van der Sar and Jari Litmanen in 1999.

In 1995, the year Ajax won the Champions League, the Dutch national team was almost entirely composed of Ajax players, with Edwin van der Sar in goal ; players such as Michael Reiziger, Frank de Boer, and Danny Blind in defense ; Ronald de Boer, Edgar Davids, and Clarence Seedorf in midfield ; and Patrick Kluivert and Marc Overmars in attack.

* Sinesi, Michael Patrick ( 2001 ) Modern Bewegungskrieg: German Battle Doctrine, 1920 – 1940.

Many of his students have gone on to successful writing careers ; they include Gretchen Mazur, Helen Fremont, Michael Byers, Jardine Libaire, Porter Shreve, Davy Rothbart, John Fulton, Marc Nesbitt, Patrick O ' Keeffe, Jess Row, Francesca Delbano, Peter Orner, Heidi Julavits, Karl Iagnemma, Achy Obejas, James Morrison and Elwood Reid.

In 1820 the family moved a few miles to the village of Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate of St Michael and All Angels Church.

Its sponsors included John Arlott, Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britten, Viscount Chaplin, Michael de la Bédoyère, Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Evans, A. S. Frere, Gerald Gardiner, QC, Victor Gollancz, Dr I. Grunfeld, E. M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

He later joined the faculty of the Royal Conservatory where his notable students included Michel van der Aa, Richard Ayres, Richard Baker, Michael Fiday, Jeff Hamburg, Michael Zev Gordon, Rozalie Hirs, Ivana Kiš, Yannis Kyriakides, Juan Sebastian Lach, Steve Martland, Nathan Michel, Koji Nakano, Damien Ricketson, Patrick Saint-Denis, Víctor Varela, Jasna Veličković, and Sinta Wullur.

The 1992 Olympic basketball Dream Team, the first to use current NBA stars, featured Michael Jordan as the anchor, along with Bird, Magic, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippen, Clyde Drexler, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Chris Mullin, Charles Barkley, and Christian Laettner.

He said: " When I got married my best man was Brent ( Spiner, who portrayed the ST: TNG character Lieutenant Commander Data ) and my groomsmen were Michael ( Dorn, Lieutenant Worf ) and Jonathan ( Frakes, Commander Riker ) and Patrick ( Stewart, Captain Picard ).

* 1971 – Michael Patrick Walker, American composer and songwriter

Notable past winners of WOTF include Stephen Baxter, Karen Joy Fowler, James Alan Gardner, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Jay Lake, Michael H. Payne, Patrick Rothfuss, Robert Reed, Dean Wesley Smith, Sean Williams, Dave Wolverton, Nancy Farmer, and David Zindell.

In his memoir, All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald describes how many white residents of the Old Colony housing project in South Boston used this meaning to degrade the people considered to be of lower status, whether white or black.

In October 1997, the mayor's City Council floor leader, Patrick Huels of the 11th Ward, the Daley family's home ward, resigned in disgrace amid allegations he used his aldermanic office to benefit his private security firm, which got a loan from city contractor and close Daley friend Michael Tadin.

Daley, Patrick Huels, and Michael Tadin grew up within two blocks of each other on S. Emerald Avenue in the Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago's near south side.

* Troughton, Michael " Patrick Troughton, by his son Michael Troughton "; to be published by Hirst Publishing November 2011.

In 1976, Deighton's novel Spy Story was filmed with Michael Petrovitch as ' Patrick Armstrong '; it is unrelated to Saltzman's Harry Palmer films.

Examples of performers who went on to universal recognition are Jeremy Brett, Judi Dench, Rosemary Harris, Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Harold Pinter, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Geraldine McEwan, Ronnie Barker, Dirk Bogarde, who wrote about his start at tiny Amersham rep in 1939, and Michael Caine, who recounts his time spent at Horsham rep in the early fifties, to present just a few.

Baum scholar Michael Patrick Hearn called the book a " fond tribute " to W. W. Denslow and an " inventive interpretation " of Baum's novel.

* Hearn, Michael Patrick ( ed ).

Several future stars made guest appearances, including Jennifer Aniston, Josie Bissett, Michael Beach, Terry Farrell, Diedrich Bader, Robert Duncan McNeill, Jason Priestley, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carla Gugino, Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Eriq La Salle, Patricia Richardson, Patrick Warburton, Anna Gunn, Claudia Christian, James Morrison, Gregory Itzin, Lauren Tom, Jane Sibbett, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Stoyanov, Tia Carrere, Beverley Mitchell, Michael Madsen, Jon Gries, Kurt Fuller, Donald Gibb, Neal McDonough, and former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk.

Past recipients of the UCLA Spencer Tracy Award include James Stewart, Michael Douglas, Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins, Kirk Douglas and Morgan Freeman.

Michael Sullivan, Sr. ( Tom Hanks ) is an enforcer for Rock Island Irish mob boss John Rooney ( Paul Newman ), during the Great Depression.

* Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan, Sr., a top-notch hitman who works for John Rooney.

Hanks, a father to four children, described Michael Sullivan's role, " I just got this guy.

Hall purposely distanced the camera from Hanks ' character, Michael Sullivan, at the beginning of the film to establish the perspective of Sullivan's son, who is unaware of his father's true nature.

By his own reckoning, Parkinson interviewed over 2000 of the world's most famous people, including: Muhammad Ali, Bing Crosby, George Best, Bob Hope, Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Hanks, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Daniel Craig, Liberace, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Bette Midler, Celine Dion, Racquel Welch, Oliver Reed,

Michael Caine was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy but lost to Tom Hanks in Big.

* Whitesides, Lynne Kanavel, Toscano, Paul James, Hanks, Maxine, Quinn, D. Michael, and Anderson, Lavina Fielding.

Michael Douglas took on the role of Nick Curran after Peter Weller, Tom Berenger, Richard Dean Anderson, Don Johnson, Wesley Snipes, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Harrison Ford, Eric Roberts, Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Liam Neeson, Anthony Edwards, John Heard, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Charlie Sheen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ray Liotta, Sylvester Stallone, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Willis, Al Pacino, Martin Sheen, Nicolas Cage, Dennis Quaid, Richard Gere, Jeff Bridges and John Travolta all turned down the role.

From the Earth to the Moon is a twelve-part HBO television miniseries ( 1998 ) co-produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks, and Michael Bostick detailing the landmark Apollo expeditions to the Moon during the 1960s and early 1970s.

By the end of the 2000s, Beatty appeared in the film version of Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact retitled Shooter ( 2007 ), directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña and Danny Glover ; the 2007 drama film that was written and directed by Paul Schrader The Walker ( 2007 ); the U. S. Congressman Doc Long in the film Charlie Wilson's War ( 2007 ), with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts and worked with Tommy Lee Jones in the thriller In the Electric Mist ( 2009 ).

Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn visited, " Michael Eisner, who suggested I write the book and bought it, always took my call ", while " Dick Zanuck was always there, Tom Hanks would write to me, Bert Fields would send his books, and Barry Kemp wrote long letters.

The film, directed by Richard Donner and, as uncredited, David Mickey Evans, is executive produced by David Mickey Evans and Michael Douglas ; and stars Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Tom Hanks, Lorraine Bracco, Adam Baldwin, and Ben Johnson.

The movie paved the way for later TV and general release films dealing with the topic of AIDS, including Go Toward The Light ( 1988 ), The Littlest Victims, The Ryan White Story ( both 1989 ), Longtime Companion ( 1990 ), and Philadelphia ( 1993 ), which won Tom Hanks, whose Andrew Beckett was similar in many ways to Michael Pierson, an Academy Award for Best Actor.

Her movies include, You ’ ve Got Mail ( starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan ), The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Hanging Up ( based on her novel ), and Michael.

* Michael Hanks as Announcer.

As MTV became the center of the entertainment universe, Hunter ’ s celebrity interviews included the first MTV interviews with Madonna, Duran Duran and U2, and also included Ozzy Osbourne, Frank and Moon Unit Zappa, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Loverboy, Kasim Sultan, Crosby Stills & Nash, Kevin Bacon, Robin Williams, Dan Aykroyd, Eurythmics, Kenny Loggins, the Psychedelic Furs, Bob & Doug McKenzie, Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, the Cars, the GoGos, the Bangles, Colin Hay and Men at Work, Boy George, Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, John Mellencamp, Hugh Hefner, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Rod Stewart, Cheap Trick, Billy Idol, Thomas Dolby, Joe Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Crowded House, Aretha Franklin, Michael McDonald, Rick Springfield, Peter Wolf, Toto, Level 42, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Martin Short, Chevy Chase and Pee-Wee Herman among others.

* The Green Mile ( film ), a 1999 film based on the Stephen King novel, starring Michael Clarke Duncan and Tom Hanks

Notable former personnel include Holland Cooke ( Program Director ( 1982-1984 )), Peter Mokover ( Program Director ( 1980-1982 )), Bill Hess ( Program Director ( 2000s )), Mike Sands, David Jones, Joanie Edwardson ( Mornings ( 1988-2006 )), Chuck Hinman ( News Director ), Jim Halfyard, Ken Cole, Steve York, Jed Barton, Amy Navarro, Jack Casey, Jay Stevens, Scott Mallory, Bruce Gammon, Jack Lawrence, Donna Mac, Harmon Dash, Bill O ' Brien, Stacy Shannon, Doug O ' Brien, Gary Trust, Michael Nordé, Chris Eagan, Vinnie McCoy, Patti Costa, Bob Hollands, John Morgan, Paul Perry, Steve Peck, Jim Raposa, Wally Bruckner, Norm Thibeault, Lisa Hanks, Liz Ryan, Will Gilbert, and Bill Smith.