Foulard
foo-lard', a thin, soft, printed dress silk, plain woven, or twilled and finished with considerable luster. It is used for summer gowns. There is variety of color design, but white on a blue ground is the most common style of coloring. Foulard is popular at intervals, and again it is out of fashion for years at a time. Foulard was imported originally from India, but is now made in this country. Cotton foulard is a close imitation in design, coloring, and finish of this silk.
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Foulke
WILLIAM DUDLEY, an American writer and publicist, born in New York City in 1848. He graduated from Columbia University in 1869 and after studying law was admitted to the bar in 1870. In 1876 he removed to Indiana, becoming a member of the State Senate in 1883. From 1901 to 1903 he was a member of the United States Civil Service Commission, and was prominently identified with the work of the National Civil Service Reform League. From 1910 to 1915 he was president of the National Municipal League. He wrote "Slav or Saxon" (1887); "Dorothy Day" (a novel) (1911) "Lyrics of War and Peace" (1916); "Today and Yesterday" (poems) (1920). He was a frequent contributor to magazines on historical and other subjects.
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Foulois
BENJAMIN DELAHAUF, an American soldier, born in Connecticut in 1879. He entered the army as a private and served until 1901 as a noncommissioned officer. In that year he was appointed 2d lieutenant of the 17th Infantry, and was promoted to be 1st lieutenant of the Signal Corps. In 1914 he 183. was appointed captain of the aviation section of the Signal Corps. He was promoted to be major in 1917 and in the same year was made temporary brigadier-general of the Signal Corps. He made a special study of aviation and was the senior military aviator in point of service. He commanded air service troops on the Mexican border and in 1917-1918 was chief of the air service of the A. E. F.
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Foundation-plate
The bottom or base plate which carries the whole mould, and to which all other parts of the mould are made secure; for which reason it is important to make them of sufficient strength for the purpose. For loam-work they should be made to correspond with the outer boundary of brickwork surrounding the casting, and all connections, as lugs, staples, bolt-holes, etc., must necessarily stand beyond that limit. See LOAM-WORK; PLATE. Founding is the art of forming in loam, or sand, a mould of any given design, which is subsequently filled with molten metal and allowed to solidify, the resultant casting being a copy in metal of the design or model furnished. The place where these operations are performed is called a foundry. See FOUNDRY.
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Fountain of Youth, The
The. See Ponce De Leon
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Fountain Spirits of Behmen
According to Jacob Behmen, there were in nature seven active principles, the "Fountain Spirits, or "Mothers of Existence." These were-the astringent quality; the sweet quality; the bitter quality; the quality of fire; the quality of love; the quality of sound; and the quality of essential substance. The reciprocal action of these antipathetic qualities resulted in Supreme Unity. Each is at once the parent and the child of all the rest, for they generate and are generated by each France other. They are typified by the seven golden candlesticks of the Apocalypse.
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Fouque'
foo-ka', Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte (1777-1843), a German poet and novelist. He was the grandson of Heinrich August Fouque', Baron de la Motte, a Prussian general whose published correspondence with Frederick the Great is of interest. The "Younger Fouque'" served as lieutenant in the campaign of 1792. He is the author of many poems, but his short stories have won him fame. The best known of these is Undine. This story has been translated into every European language. It was founded on a tale told by Paracelsus in his Treatise on Elemental Sprites. Undine is a beautiful water spirit who, according to the laws of her race, can win a soul only by wedding a mortal. Should her husband prove untrue, she is forced to destroy him. Fouque's tale is told simply, but it is full of a dreamy beauty and weird charm which will ever make it a favorite.
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Fouquet
NICOLAS, a statesman; born in Paris in 1615. He Vaux, and was Viscount of Melun and of Marquis of Belle Isle, finance minister Attaching under Louis XIV. of France. himself closely to Mazarin, he received appointment of in 1650 the important procureur-général to the parliament of Paris, and three years later was advanced to be superintendent of finance. His rapid advance made him ambitious of succeeding Mazarin as first minister, and in order to secure himself friends and a party he distributed money with a lavish hand; but he had a formidable rival in Colbert. Fouquet's plans were, however, brought to naught; for, in the the reins first pla place, Louis himself took of power into his own hands when they slipped from the grasp of the dead cardinal, and, in the second place, instigated thereto by Colbert, he suddenly arrested Fouquet in September, 1661. After a years, Foutrial extending over three quet was sentenced to perpetual exile and the loss of all his property, but the altered to lifesentence was afterward long imprisonment. He died in the fortress of Pignerol, March 23, 1680.
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Fouquier-Tinville (II)
ANTOINE QUENTIN, one of the most execrated ; born figures of the French Revolution His early in Hérovel, France, in 1747. was immoral, but insignificant. career On the outbreak of the Revolution, he figured as one of the fiercest democrats. ngu By Robespierre he was appointed, first, then director and public a member, accuser, of the revolutionary tribunal. or sense of justice Without education, , he executed the bloody orders of the Committee of Public Safety. Incapable of friendship, or of anything even remotely allied to generosity, he systematisuccessive coadjucally abandoned his tors in their hour of need, and sent to the scaffold, without the slightest com- , Robespunction, Danton and Herbert by pierre and St. Just. He himself died the guillotine, May 7, 1795.
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