Article: Celebrate this new year with happiness and health.(Neighbor)

Dictionary definition: MONDAY, visitors on
A Dictionary of Superstitions;      286 words ... ... all the week. 1923 [Bridgwater, Som.] If the first person to come to your door on a Monday morning is dark, you will be lucky through the week. If fair, unlucky. Cf. FIRST-FOOT at New Year/Christmas: dark man usually preferred .

Article: from pigs to pickled herring: New Year traditions
Dayton Daily News;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Graziano and Verne Troyer. New Year's babies are Capricorns ... complicated history regarding New Year's. The holiday is known ... first footer is a tall, dark man. A parade by any other ... Cabbage, often consumed on New Year's in the form of sauerkraut ...

Article: 'Dark Man' no more, DMX to change his name
The Hindustan Times;  May 30, 2006 ;     326 words ... ... Rapper DMX, whose name is an acronym for Dark Man X, is considering changing his name for ... sensation said that he is ready to ditch the Dark Man X moniker, but hasn't come up with ... spiritual reasons. It's just the whole 'Dark Man' thing. If you look at it, from a spiritual ...

Article: Dark man of film, newly relaxedActor-director is ...
International Herald Tribune;  June 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... mysteriously through so many memorable films. Piccoli, 80, smokes no more. Today, he looks relaxed and benevolent where did the dark man go? Hardly balder than before, he is elegant; the sonorous voice rises and falls. He has directed a movie, ''C'est ...

Article: Scotch-comfort and joy. (scotch whiskey in history)
History Today;  December 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... describe Christmas Eve before it came to designate New Year's Eve. Just as the derivation of Hogmanay is ... The first `foot' to step in your house on New Year's Day must be a tall dark man in good health carrying a piece of coal or peat ...

Article: A DARK MAN BUT ONE OF HONOUR; By CHRIS HUTCHINS ...
The People (London, England);  January 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Byline: CHRIS HUTCHINS THESE are the darkest hours of Pete Townshend's life and those of us who know and love him can only hope and pray no harm will come to him as he faces that most awful of accusations - the incredible suspicion that he might be a paedophile. Pete would be the first to admit

Article: Glow in the Dark; 'Man Who Wasn't There' A Tribute ...
The Washington Post;  November 2, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Noir is harsh. Noir is bleak. Noir bites you hard. That's what's so cool about it. And that's what's so cool about "The Man Who Wasn't There," the new Coen brothers film, which is the purest essence of that bitter movie toxin, distilled from the disappointments and exhaustion of the late 1940s,