American physician. He shared a 1934 Nobel Prize for discovering that a diet of liver relieves anemia. Murphy Audie Leon Murphy Frank William Francis Murphy Murphy Isaac Burns
{i} family name; Eddie Murphy (born 1961, born Edward Reagan Murphy), comedian and actor; William Parry Murphy (1892-1987), United States physician, the 1934 Nobel Prize winner for medicine; Irish potato, white potato; spud, potato (Informal)
Any of various confidence games often having the services of a prostitute as a lure and brought off by switching an envelope containing the victim's cash with one containing scrap paper
Murphy's Law is the idea that whatever can go wrong in a situation will go wrong. = Sod's Law. a tendency for bad things to happen whenever it is possible for them to do so - used humorously British Equivalent: sod's law (Edward Murphy (born 1917), U.S. engineer who first thought of it)
number of humorous aphorisms which claim that life works in the most ironic way (e.g. the very thing that we don't want to happen usually happens, something always goes wrong at the worst time, etc.)
born June 20, 1924, near Kingston, Texas, U.S. died May 28, 1971, near Roanoke, Va. U.S. war hero and actor. Enlisting in the army in 1942, he became the most decorated U.S. soldier of World War II. He killed hundreds of Germans, and he once jumped onto a burning tank destroyer to turn its machine gun on enemy troops. In 1945 he received the Congressional Medal of Honor. On the strength of his heroic status, he became a movie actor after the war, starring in films such as The Red Badge of Courage (1951), To Hell and Back (1955), and The Quiet American (1958). He died when his private plane crashed. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honours
born June 20, 1924, near Kingston, Texas, U.S. died May 28, 1971, near Roanoke, Va. U.S. war hero and actor. Enlisting in the army in 1942, he became the most decorated U.S. soldier of World War II. He killed hundreds of Germans, and he once jumped onto a burning tank destroyer to turn its machine gun on enemy troops. In 1945 he received the Congressional Medal of Honor. On the strength of his heroic status, he became a movie actor after the war, starring in films such as The Red Badge of Courage (1951), To Hell and Back (1955), and The Quiet American (1958). He died when his private plane crashed. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honours
orig. William Francis Murphy born April 13, 1890, Harbor Beach, Mich., U.S. died July 19, 1949, Detroit, Mich. U.S. Supreme Court justice (1940-49). After serving in World War I, he held several elective posts, including mayor of Detroit (1930-33). He was governor-general (1933-35) and U.S. high commissioner (1935-36) of the Philippines. Elected governor of Michigan (1937-38), he refused to use troops to break sit-down strikes by automobile workers. As U.S. attorney general (1939-40), he established the Justice Department's civil rights unit. Appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, he strongly defended civil rights and dissented in a case upholding the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II
born 1861, Fayette county, Ky., U.S. died Feb. 12, 1896, Louisville, Ky. U.S. jockey. He was one of the first jockeys to pace his mount for a charge down the homestretch a technique soon described as the "grandstand finish." He was the first three-time winner of the Kentucky Derby (1884, 1890, and 1891), and his career winning percentage of 34.5 has never been equaled. At his peak in the late 1880s, he became the highest-paid athlete in America, earning close to $20,000 a year. He was the first jockey elected to the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame and one of only two African Americans inducted