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Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.
`` Oh, come on Miss Langford, play with us just onct '', one of the little girls begged, smiling wistfully.
`` Let's play with 'em '', Jack said, rising from where he sat on the ground and dusting off his overall pants.
While Johnny made himself comfortable on the couch, I'd play the tunes for him.
Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.
He again began to play the violin, and tucking the instrument beneath his chin, performed soulful and romantic airs to match the expressions on the faces of the lovely women who gathered to hear him.
That fall he submitted to Professor Baker the first acts and outlines of the following acts of several plays, six of them, according to some of his associates, and he also worked on a play that he first called Niggertown, the material for which he had collected during the summer at home.
In the spring, it must have been, he began working on the play that he called The House, which later would be Mannerhouse.
This huge hulk played the guitar and he would take it along on our walks and play for us as we sat alone in the woods or by the stream.
It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.
He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.
It looks more like they are going to play at the beach instead of taking lessons on bettering themselves.
He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies, but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs. Lattimer's funeral.
In addition, the neocortical-hypothalamic relations play a great role in primates, as Mirsky's interesting experiment on the `` communication of affect '' demonstrates.
Too many husbands, Dr. Schillinger continues, worry about `` how well they're doing '', and fear that their success depends on some trick or technique of sexual play.
Then later I had quit my safe, secure five-a-week spot on a network soap opera to take a part in this play.
The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.
He got hit from the blind side by the split end coming back on the second play of the game.
Arkansas combined 280 yards rushing with 64 yards passing ( on 5 completions in 7 tosses ) and a tough defense to whip TCU, and A & M, with a 38-point bulge against Texas Tech ran up its biggest total loop play since 1950.
Despite the 45-degree weather the game was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some good infield play.
Chico Ruiz made a spectacular play on Alusik's grounder in the hole in the fourth and Wert came up with some good stops and showed a strong arm at third base.
Yes, we know, they're professionals, men paid to play, and they shouldn't care how they're handled, just as long as their names are spelled correctly on the first and fifteenth of each month.
He said he contacted a friend, Henry Hall Wilson, on the President's staff and asked whether his orchestra could play, in the series.
Throughout `` The Making Of A President '' Mr. White shows wonderfully well how the pressures pile up on candidates, how decisions have constantly to be made, how fatigue and illness and nervous strain wear candidates down, how subordinates play key roles.
`` Roots '', the new play at the brand-new Mayfair Theater on 46th St. which has been made over from a night club, is about the intellectual and spiritual awakening of an English farm girl.

play and Beaumarchais
The libretto, a version of Pierre Beaumarchais ' stage play Le Barbier de Séville, was newly written by Cesare Sterbini and not the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century.
In his 2008 production of the classic Beaumarchais comedy The Marriage of Figaro, author William James Royce trimmed the five-act play down to three acts and labeled it a " Classic Screwball Comedy.
During this time, Beaumarchais ' play The Marriage of Figaro premiered in Paris.
The paper was founded as a satirical weekly in 1826, taking its name and motto from Le Mariage de Figaro, a play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais that poked fun at privilege.
** The Barber of Seville ( play ) by Beaumarchais
*** Il barbiere di Siviglia ( Paisiello ), the opera by Paisiello based on Beaumarchais ' play
*** The Barber of Seville, the opera by Rossini based on Beaumarchais ' play
** The Guilty Mother, a play by Beaumarchais
** The Marriage of Figaro ( play ), the play by Beaumarchais
*** The Marriage of Figaro, the opera by Mozart based on Beaumarchais ' play by the same name
* The Marriage of Figaro ( 1778 ) by Beaumarchais and the 1786 opera of the same name by Mozart, whose plot centres on Count Almaviva's foiled attempt to exercise his right with Figaro's bride, Suzanne in the play, Susanna in the opera.
While at Madrid he befriended the young French playwright Beaumarchais, whose experiences in Spain later formed the basis of his play ‘ The Marriage of Figaro ’.
* Figaro, the Count of Almaviva's valet from Beaumarchais ' play The Marriage of Figaro, as well as the Mozart and Rossini operas based on it.
The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution () is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron.
Though the play was poorly received at first, Beaumarchais worked some fast editing of the script, turning it into a roaring success after three days.
Pierre Beaumarchais noted in the preface to his 1778 play, The Marriage of Figaro ( which satirized the aristocracy ) that it was the late prince de Conti who requested the play be written, and Louis François Joseph's antics may have been the model for the misadventures of " Count Almaviva ".
These operas were based on the plays The Barber of Seville ( play ) and The Marriage of Figaro ( play ) by Pierre Beaumarchais.
A well-known example is Dr. Bartolo in Pierre Beaumarchais ' The Barber of Seville ( play ), Gioachino Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville and in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
Corigliano and Hoffman took as the starting point for the opera the play La Mère coupable ( The Guilty Mother ) by Pierre Beaumarchais.
In his preface to the play, Beaumarchais says that Louis François, Prince of Conti had requested it be written.

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