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Hitchcock

noun

English film director noted for his skill in creating suspense (1899-1980). Synonyms: Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Sir Alfred Hitchcock.

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... President was, but Senator Hitchcock, who had led the fight for the treaty in the Senate, saw him on November 18 and was told that in the President's opinion the Lodge reservations amounted to nullification of the treaty. So the Democrats voted against the treaty. Lodge's refusal to accept Wilson's treaty was as unshakable ...

— Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements • Frank B. Lord and James William Bryan

... ago we visited the localities in Massachusetts which were famous in the days of Hitchcock and Webster. We found that the beryls occurred in a very coarse granite, where the quartz appeared in masses and the felspar in huge crystals. These also occur in finer granite, and exhibit no indications of veins or connection ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XI, No. 27, June, 1873 • Various

Words linked to "Hitchcock" : film director, director