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He sends a gang of thugs, led by his flunky assistant Taggart ( Slim Pickens ), to scare them away, prompting the townsfolk to demand that Governor William J.
The resulting fight between the townsfolk and Lamarr's army of thugs breaks the fourth wall, quite literally ; the fight spills out from the Warner Bros. film lot into a neighboring musical set being directed by Buddy Bizarre ( Dom DeLuise ), then into the studio commissary, where a pie fight ensues.
Destry confounds the townsfolk by refusing to strap on a gun in spite of demonstrating that he is an expert marksman.
A recluse by nature, he appeared strange and bizarre to his fellow townsfolk.
The ruling class among the mediaeval townsfolk were rich merchant families whose houses stood right near the castle tower and were surrounded by the first town wall once it was built.
At the drugstore, he also showed off his natural artistic talents by sketching the townsfolk.
The townsfolk are ruled by a self-styled bandito warlord named Mapache ( Emilio Fernández ), a general in the Mexican Federal Army, who has been stealing to feed his troops.
The origins of the word are from Stoker's novel, where it is used by the Romanian townsfolk to refer to Count Dracula and presumably, other undead.
As Smith's skills and strengths become apparent to the nuns, they come to believe that he has been sent by God to fulfill their dream of building a chapel for the townsfolk -- who are Mexican and impoverished -- as the nearest church is miles away.
* Raymond Gunn-a black man burned to death by a mob of townsfolk in 1931
Due to: the fact the townsfolk vehemently support the fire department by other means including donations, a widespread dislike of the fee ( which departed from the traditional free gathering Billy Lane originally organised.
From 1378 to 1705, Celle was the official residence of the Lüneburg branch of the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( House of Welf ) who had been banished from their original ducal seat by its townsfolk.
The reaction of the townsfolk to this outside influence is fascinatingly drawn by Zola, and the tactics of the groups who are in " resistance " to Abbé Faujas ' clever machinations are very keenly observed.
The townsfolk bring the monster to life the form of a long procession, which snakes through the town led by a swarm of children carrying Chinese-type lanterns.
Towards the end of the Thirty Years ' War, the townsfolk were looking after 50 Swedish soldiers, which brought them protection by the Swedish Army, and thereby also a reputation as a " field hospital town " (" Lazarettstadt ") that lasted until the end of the Second World War.
Cesare nearly does so, revealing to Francis the almost certain connection of Cesare and his master Caligari to the recent homicides ; however, Cesare refuses to go through with the killing because of Jane's beauty and he instead carries her out of her house, pursued by the townsfolk.
The name comes from the sprigs of holly worn by the townsfolk in their caps or clothing in the years after the battle, in its commemoration.
A major landmark is the statue of Eof by the sculptor John McKenna that was funded by the townsfolk and unveiled in the market place in June 2008.
King Charles I passed through Southam just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, and apparently was not made welcome by the townsfolk, who refused to ring the church bells.
Although the Sobors were primarily a tool used to rubberstamp decisions that Ivan had already made, sometimes initiative was taken by the lower nobility and townsfolk.
Anne initially makes a poor impression on the townsfolk of Avonlea with an outburst at the Cuthberts ' neighbour, the outspoken gossip Mrs. Rachel Lynde, but this is amended by an equally impassioned apology.
* The 1898 Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame includes a chapter entitled The Reluctant Dragon, in which an elderly St. George and a benign dragon stage a mock battle to satisfy the townsfolk and get the dragon introduced into society.
Kyle acknowledged this trend in the season five ( 2001 ) episode " Cartmanland " when he states that he often gives the speech each week in an attempt to " try and better myself ", and again in the season seven ( 2003 ) episode " Butt Out " where he repeatedly reminds his friends that they continuously allow potentially riotous events to occur, and are only able to defuse the situation by giving such a speech to the gathered townsfolk.

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His earphones were constantly full of the sounds of enemy contacts made by other flights.
There was, of course, no way for the other planes to get by them.
Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.
`` If you want to see something, he's back on the other side by the trunk of the car ''.
The slender, handsome fellow was called Dandy Brandon by the other slaves.
That any sort of duty was owed by his nation to other nations would have astonished a nineteenth-century statesman.
I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.
Meanwhile, the experts speak of wars triggered by `` false pre-emption '', `` escalation '', `` unauthorized behavior '' and other terms that will be discussed in this report.
Their conversations were, almost invariably, accompanied by the same gestures -- arms and pointed forefingers darting toward each other in arclike semicircular motions.
Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.
The top story contains more than thirty alcoves separated from each other by spandrels of blue and yellow tile.
Some look deliberately to devices used by creators in the other arts and apply corresponding methods to their own work.
The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.
In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.
He seems, by some unconscious division of labor, to have given them that one function and no other, leaving communication to the rest of the face.
it is a spectacle absolutely painful, an epiphany of the suffering flesh unredeemed by spirit, untouched by any spirit other than abasement and humiliation.
Dashiell Hammett resolved this contradiction by ceasing to write mystery stories and turning to other pursuits.
When we `` forced '' individuals to assume the corporate structure by means of taxes and other legal statutes, we adopted what I would term `` pseudo-capitalism '' and so took a major step toward socialism.
Examples are in public utilities, making military aircraft and accessories, or where the investment and risk for a proprietorship would be too great for a much needed project impossible to achieve by any means other than the corporate form, e.g. constructing major airports or dams.
In no other situation would a group of doctors, struggling competently to improve the life expectancy of a man beloved by the world, be subjected to such merciless and persistent questioning, and before they were prepared to demonstrate the kind of verbal precision which alone can clarify for mankind the problems it faces.
But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.
A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.
At one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.

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