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Griffith

[grif-ith]

noun

  1. Arthur, 1872–1922, Irish nationalist leader: a founder of Sinn Fein.

  2. D(avid Lewelyn) W(ark) 1875–1948, U.S. film director and producer.

  3. a town in NW Indiana.

  4. a male given name, form of Griffin.



Griffith

/ ˈɡɪɪθ /

noun

  1. Arthur. 1872–1922, Irish journalist and nationalist: founder of Sinn Féin (1905); president of the Free State assembly (1922)

  2. D ( avid Lewelyn ) W ( ark ). 1875–1948, US film director and producer. He introduced several cinematic techniques, including the flashback and the fade-out, in his masterpiece The Birth of a Nation (1915)

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"Deals take forever," Martin Griffiths, the former UN Under-Secretary General, told me.

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Three hours north of Sacramento, the Trinity Alps encompasses about 540,000 acres — about 130 times the size of Griffith Park — and features massive waterfalls, crystal-clear rivers and creeks, and dozens of turquoise alpine lakes.

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Prosecutor Roger Griffiths previously told the court this was "drug dealing on an industrial scale".

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Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith said: "Labour's botched negotiations have left businesses in limbo and this country simply cannot afford their continuing failure."

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At a screening in London, director James Griffiths told the PA news agency a medic checked Mulligan and other actors' temperatures due to the cold, saying Basden was "blue".

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