I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.

Former COO Scott Arnold took the title of interim president and chief executive officer until November 8, 2005, when it was announced that Tod Nielsen would take over as CEO effective November 9, 2005.

In April 2008, Scott Adams announced that United Media would be instituting an interactive feature on Dilbert. com, allowing fans to write speech bubbles and, in the near future, interact with Adams about the content of the strips.

The city with the most votes from Scott County citizens in the February 1838 election would become the county seat.

Walter Scott and Thomas Campbell sided with Stone, but the younger Campbell had strong reasons and would not yield.

Even after the director was persuaded to keep the scene intact, George C. Scott refused to do it, as he believed it would overshadow the rest of his performance.

Both the major literary figures of the following century, Robert Burns and Walter Scott, would be highly influenced by the Ossian cycle.

Scott, who was coming off of a 5 – 11 season, had found his new pitch and would become one of Houston's most celebrated hurlers.

Scott would finish the season with an 18 – 10 record and a Cy Young Award.

Needing a win to get to Mike Scott ( who had been dominant in the series ) in Game 7, the Astros jumped off to a 3 – 0 lead in the first inning but neither team would score again until the 9th inning.

However, without Grimthorpe's money, it seems reasonable to assume that the Abbey Church would now almost certainly be a ruin, like many other former monastic churches, despite the work performed under Sir George Gilbert Scott in the years 1860 to 1877.

On the basis of these photographs, British naturalist Peter Scott announced in 1975 that the scientific name of the monster would henceforth be Nessiteras rhombopteryx ( Greek for " The Ness monster with diamond-shaped fin ").

Scott intended that this would enable Nessie to be added to a British register of officially protected wildlife.

In 1925, Australian Jack Scott first bowled a form of bodyline in a state match for New South Wales, but his captain Herbie Collins disliked it and would not let him use it again when he was captain.

On May 2, 2012 it was announced that four players who played for the team between 2009 and 2011 would receive suspensions for their alleged participation in " Bountygate ": Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma ( 16 games ), Saints defensive lineman Will Smith ( 4 games ), former Saints / current Browns linebacker Scott Fujita ( 3 games ), and former Saints / current Packers defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove ( 8 games ).

After the Second World War, the Scott family moved back to their native North East England, eventually settling in Teesside ( whose industrial landscape would later inspire similar scenes in Blade Runner ).

Scott would not return to an Alien-related project for three more decades, when he directed Prometheus.

Earlier ( in 2009 ) Scott had stated that he would direct a film adaptation of the Red Riding trilogy.

Scott admitted feeling " stunned and truly humbled " after the ceremony, saying, " As a boy growing up in South Shields, I could never have imagined that I would receive such a special recognition.

In later years, when Scott was establishing his naval career, the family would suffer serious financial misfortune, but his early childhood years were spent in comfort.

Promotion, and the extra income this would bring, now became a matter of considerable concern to Scott.

Scott did not know that he would be in a race until he received Amundsen's telegram in Melbourne, in October 1910.

Scott had earlier outlined his plans for the southern journey to the entire shore party, without being specific about precise roles – no one knew who would form the final polar team.

By 4 January 1912, the last two four-man groups had reached 87 ° 34 ′ S. Scott announced his decision: five men ( Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans ) would go forward, the other three ( Teddy Evans, William Lashly and Tom Crean ) would return.

In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.

Throughout his later career, he made use of his close connection to Thomson and Scott as he established businesses that supplied rails and bridges to the railroad, offering the two men a stake in his enterprises.

CEO of Sun Microsystems Scott McNealy announced plans to invest $ 10 million in 1993 and use NeXT software ( OpenStep ) in future Sun systems.

Literary scholar Heidi Scott argued that Gould's use of analogy and metaphor constitutes a non-scientific discourse attempting to validate a scientific theory.

Scott knew nothing of horses, but felt that as they had seemingly served Shackleton well, he ought to use them.

During the journey, Scott sent a series of conflicting orders back to base concerning the future use of the expedition's dogs, leaving it unclear whether they were to be saved for future scientific journeys or were to assist the polar party home.

" It was designed and created in part for educational use, more so for constructionist learning, at the Learning Research Group ( LRG ) of Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, Ted Kaehler, Scott Wallace, and others during the 1970s.

Some early single hose scuba sets used full-face masks instead of a mouthpiece, such as those made by Desco and Scott Aviation ( who continue to make breathing units of this configuration for use by firefighters ).

Scott Murphy said during development that Space Quest VII would contain some 3D elements, but would not require the use of a 3D accelerator card.

In Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of Redneck Cinema, Scott Von Doviak commended its effective use of daylight shots, unusual among horror films, such as the sight of a corpse draped over a tombstone in the opening sequence.

In the 2010 film adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World there are multiple references to the Zelda games and the soundtrack, including use of the " Fairy Fountain " theme in one of the film's dream sequences.

Sir Walter Scott made use of these stereotypes in his novel The Bride of Lammermoor, which inspired several musical works including Lucia.

Screenwriter Scott Rosenberg was living in Boston, waiting to see if Disney would use his script for Con Air.

While he admired and drew inspiration from the Romantic style of Scottish novelist Walter Scott, Balzac sought to depict human existence through the use of particulars.

Her sister-in-law ( born The Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott ) was given special dispensation by HM The Queen to use a similar style when she was widowed (" HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ") despite not being a princess by birth, rather than the more usual widow's style, " HRH The Dowager Duchess of Gloucester ".

The film is noted for its use of ragtime, particularly the melody, " The Entertainer ", by Scott Joplin, which was adapted for the movie by Marvin Hamlisch ( and became a top-ten chart single for Hamlisch, when released as a single from the film's soundtrack ).

In November 2010, Potter County commissioners awarded the bid for the 2011 use of the stadium to Scott Berry, owner of Southern Independent Baseball and franchisee with the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.

When they learned about EMI's 8-track recorder, they insisted on using it, and engineers Ken Scott and Dave Harries took the machine ( without authorisation from the studio chiefs ) into the Number 2 recording studio at Abbey Road for the band's use.

Kubrick proceeded to use this version in the final cut, which Scott supposedly resented.

More recent composers to use prepared pianos include Hiromi Uehara, Philip Corner, Roberto Carnevale, Jason Moran, Marina Leonardi, Stephen Scott, Erdem Helvacıoğlu.

Chief Neamathla of Fowltown got into a dispute with the commander of Fort Scott over the use of land on the eastern side of the Flint River, essentially claiming Mikasuki sovereignty over the area.

Previous commissioners include Republicans Mary Walker, who was forced to resign after using millions of public dollars to benefit her family business ; Scott Croswell, the owner of Croswell Bus Company ; and Archie Wilson, who resigned after illegal drug use and relations with a prostitute in northern Kentucky.

Scott advocated the use of Gothic architecture for secular buildings, rejecting what he called " the absurd supposition that Gothic architecture is exclusively and intrinsically ecclesiastical.

* In 1995, one of the highest-profile cases to make use of the gay panic defense was the Michigan trial of Jonathan Schmitz, who killed his friend Scott Amedure after learning, during a taping of The Jenny Jones Show, that Amedure was sexually attracted to him.