Difference between revisions of "V"

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vacuum
60;

Vaillant
87; Anarchist martyr

Vampires
network in Buda-Pesth, 713;

Vamplet, Miss Oomie
349; singer at R. W. Vibe's party who played Kate Chase Sprague in Rose Conkling;

Vanderjuice, Professor Heino
6; old friend of the Chums of Chance, of New Haven, and inventor of the Screw, an aerial-propulsion device for augmenting the cruising speed of the Inconvenience; of Yale University, 29; 52; and Merle Rideout, 58; 355; at First International Conference on Time-Travel, 407; 571;

Vaseline
161; Edwarda Vibe's maid Vasquez, Sargeant Amparo
380; at Guanajuanto hoosegow

Vector
156; In mathematics, a vector space (or linear space) is a collection of objects (called vectors) that, informally speaking, may be scaled and added. More formally, a vector space is a set on which two operations, called (vector) addition and (scalar) multiplication, are defined and satisfy certain natural axioms. Vector spaces are the basic objects of study in linear algebra, and are used throughout mathematics, science, and engineering. 158; 165; vectorists, 534; and Monotony, 560; "in five dimensions" 675; Wikipedia entry

Vectorist
97;Urban Dictionary entry

Veikko
See Rautavaara, Veikko

veil
140; A caul or veil (Latin: Caput galeatum) is a thin, filmy membrane, the remnants of the amniotic sac, that covers or partly covers the newborn mammal immediately after birth. The Caul were even sold durning Greek and Roman times to statemen, for it was believed to wear one would bring wisdom, honor, truth,and pyschic powers and protection against evil. In Icelandic tradition, the caul is associated with a guardian spirit called a fylgja. This fylgja can take many forms after birth, including an animal, an inanimate object (such as a cloak), or another human being, and often serves as a kind of warning against potential danger. It is a very old idea that a child born with a caul over its face will be endowed with special powers or gifts.

"Velvet" drink
682; "horrible combination of porter and Champagne";

Venedig in Wien

717; In May 1895, the large entertainment park "Venice in Vienna" opened in the Viennese Prater. Entrepreneur Gabor Steiner and architect Oskar Marmorek provided gondolas on artificial channels, cafés, restaurants, Verkaufsbuden and also a Operettenbühne.

Verbena
345; friend of Katie's; 347;

Vibe, Colfax
157; son of Scarsdale Vibe, at Yale; 325;

Vibe, Cragmont
159; son of Scarsdale Vibe

Vibe, Dittany
160; niece of Scarsdale Vibe, at Mt. Holyoke;

Vibe, Edwarda Beef
160; wife of Scarsdale Vibe

Vibe, Fleetwood
130; son of Scarsdale Vibe; Journals, 138-148; 159; to South Africa, 168;

Vibe, R. Wilshire
161; Scarsdale's younger brother and opera composer; "restless impresario" in New York City, 340; "Shanghai Scampers - "his next project" 340; African Antics, "coon revue" 344; his pad, 348; 505;

Vibe, Scarsdale
31; The village of Scarsdale, New York, is one of the wealthiest communities in the United States. Thus, the "Scarsdale vibe" would be an aura of wealth, appropriately; financing Tesla in Colorado Springs, 31; manor on Long Island, 159; coveting his enemies' bloodline, 332; "Smite early and often" 333; in Europe headed for Venice to buy Renaissance art, 657, 669;

Vicker, Morty
63; saloon owner in Cleveland

Villa, Gaston
"and His Bughouse Bandaleros" 374;

vint
667; Russian card-game, similar to both bridge and whist and it is sometimes referred to as Russian whist. Vint means a screw in Russian, and the name is given to the game because the four players, each in turn, propose, bid and overbid each other until one, having bid higher than the others care to follow, makes the trump, his vis-d-vis becoming his partner; Wikipedia entry

virtù
529;

voetsak
564; exclamation: go away!

vol à voile
14; French: gliding (as in hang gliders)

von Arendtschildt
661; Hannoverian army under...;

von Flies
661; at Langensalza

von Krafft-Ebing, Baron
544; hat fetishism

von Quassel, Güther
596; "wealthy coffee scion" and Yashmeen's boyfriend; inhabits "his own idiomatic 'frame of reference'" 599; aka "El Atildato" in Mexico, with Frank Traverse, 637;

von Schlieffen
543;

von Waltershausen, Baron
661; professor at Göttingen;

Vormance, Dr. Alden
114; 130; 170;

Voznab
707; Russian airship surveillance program, referring to the Bol'shaia Igra, Padzy's airship