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Humphrey

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Hum·phrey  (hmfr, hmp-), Doris 1895-1958.
American dancer and choreographer known for developing techniques of fall and recovery.
Humphrey, Hubert Horatio 1911-1978.
Vice President of the United States (1965-1969) under Lyndon Johnson. He ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1968.
Humphrey [ˈhʌmfrɪ]
n
1. (Biographies / Humphrey, Duke) Duke. See (Humphrey, Duke of) Gloucester
2. (Biographies / Humphrey, Hubert Horatio (1911-1978) M, US, POLITICS: statesman) Hubert Horatio. 1911-78, US statesman; vice-president of the US under President Johnson (1965-69)
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This he sent to sail along with others under the command of his step-brother Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who was setting out upon a voyage of discovery.
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Humphrey would not come to quarrel with you about it, so I am come.
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Looking now and then at the sky, she went through the list of her cousins' names: Eleanor, Humphrey, Marmaduke, Silvia, Henry, Cassandra, Gilbert, and Mostyn--Henry, the cousin who taught the young ladies of Bungay to play upon the violin, was the only one in whom she could confide, and as she walked up and down beneath the hoops of the pergola, she did begin a little speech to him, which ran something like this:
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