During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.

Furthermore, several Speakers became leading figures in their political parties ; examples include Democrats Samuel J. Randall, John Griffin Carlisle, and Charles F. Crisp, and Republicans James G. Blaine, Thomas Brackett Reed, and Joseph Gurney Cannon.

According to director Thomas Massengale, Crisp was a delight to work with.

* 1919 – Too Much Johnson, Paramount Pictures – Director: Donald Crisp ; Writers: William Gillette and Thomas J. Geraghty ; Release Date: December 1919 ; Starring Bryant Washburn as Augustus Billings, Lois Wilson as Mrs. Billings, and Adele Farrington as Mrs. Batterson ; 5 reels, 4, 431 feet

Amongst those known to have lived locally and frequented public houses in the area such as the Fitzroy Tavern and the Wheatsheaf are Augustus John, Quentin Crisp, Dylan Thomas, Aleister Crowley, the racing tipster Prince Monolulu, Nina Hamnett and George Orwell.

The foundation sire of the modern Suffolk Punch breed was a 15. 2 hand () stallion foaled near Woodbridge in 1768 and owned by Thomas Crisp of Ufford.

The parish church of St Peter was completed in 1855 ( consecrated 9 August ), the principal architect was Thomas Henry Wyatt and H. Crisp it also has a late 20th century south extension in same style.

The Southwest District serves the following counties: Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Clinch, Colquitt, Cook, Crisp, Decatur, Dooly, Dougherty, Early, Echols, Grady, Houston, Irwin, Lanier, Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Marion, Miller, Mitchell, Peach, Pulaski, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Seminole, Stewart, Sumter, Taylor, Terrell, Thomas, Tift, Turner, Webster, Wilcox, and Worth.

Skipper Thomas Crisp VC, DSC, RNR ( 28 April 1876 – 15 August 1917 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Thomas Crisp was born into a family of shipwrights and fishermen in Lowestoft, one of ten children to William and Mary Anne Crisp.

In 1895, aged 19, he met and married Harriet Elizabeth Alp and settled with her in Burgh St. Peter near Lowestoft, where they had two sons and a daughter, including Thomas Crisp Jr., who would be with his father on the day he won the Victoria Cross.

When this threat failed to materialise, Thomas Crisp returned to fishing, considered too old for military service and in an occupation vital to Britain's food supplies.

A court of enquiry praised the surviving crew and their dead captain and authorised the award of the Victoria Cross posthumously to Thomas Crisp and Distinguished Service Medals to his son and another member of the crew.

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( The posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Skipper Thomas Crisp, D. S. C., R. N. R., 10055 D. A., was announced in London Gazette No. 30363, dated 2 November 1917 ).

After the war, a small display to the memory of Thomas Crisp Sr. was set up in Lowestoft free library and another in the local maritime museum.

In a footnote to the action, the pigeon " Red Cock " which brought news of the engagement to the authorities was stuffed upon his death and was mounted in the Thomas Crisp display at Lowestoft town hall for many years before being reportedly relocated to a museum in South Kensington.

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" The ordinance was passed strictly in accordance with law and parliamentary usage, was signed by the presiding officers of the two houses, attested by John T. Crisp, secretary of the senate, and Thomas M. Murray, clerk of the house, and approved by Claiborne F. Jackson, governor of the State.

Realizing that they will not be paid their $ 1 million apiece, Frye and Darrow, along with Sergeant Crisp ( Bokeem Woodbine ), decide mutiny against Hummel and his second-in-command, Major Tom Baxter ( David Morse ).

His life and the sacrifices he made to keep going despite pain and impending death were the subject of the 1942 British film, The First of the Few produced and directed by Leslie Howard, with Howard in the starring role of R. J. Mitchell, and David Niven as ' Geoffrey Crisp ', based on the Supermarine test pilot Jeffrey Quill who flew the aerobatic sequences for the film in a Spitfire MkII.

Samuel Augustus Erwin has a large gravestone marker in Honey Grove, TX, stating: " Virginia-born Samuel Erwin was married in 1819 in Tennessee to Sally Rodgers Crisp ( 1795-1860 ), in a ceremony performed by local magistrate David Crockett.

On 15 September 1940, during the Battle of Britain, RAF Squadron Leader Geoffrey Crisp ( David Niven ), the station commander of a Spitfire squadron, recounts the story of how his friend, R. J. Mitchell ( Leslie Howard ) designed the Spitfire fighter.

On 29 October 1917, David Lloyd George made an emotional speech in the House of Commons citing Crisp's sacrifice as representative of the Royal Navy's commitment " from the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean to the stormy floods of Magellan ", which promoted Crisp into an overnight celebrity whose story ran in all the major London papers for nearly a week, containing as it did a story of personal sacrifice, filial devotion and perceived German barbarity.

Mota never played a game with the Red Sox, as on January 27, 2006, he was traded to the Cleveland Indians with Andy Marté, Kelly Shoppach, a player to be named later ( eventually Randy Newsom ), and cash considerations for Coco Crisp, David Riske, and Josh Bard.

This trade precipitated a second deal in which the Indians sent outfielder Coco Crisp, relief pitcher David Riske and catcher Josh Bard to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for reliever Guillermo Mota, third baseman Andy Marté, catcher Kelly Shoppach, Randy Newsom and cash.

In January 2006, Bard was acquired by the Boston Red Sox, along with outfielder Coco Crisp and reliever David Riske, for reliever Guillermo Mota, third base prospect Andy Marté, and catcher Kelly Shoppach.

Written and directed by David Kaplan and with cinematography of Scott Ramsey, it features then-teenage Christina Ricci in the title role and is narrated by Quentin Crisp.

Later that off-season, on January 27, 2006, the Red Sox traded him to the Cleveland Indians along with relief pitcher Guillermo Mota, catcher Kelly Shoppach, Randy Newsom, and cash considerations for center fielder Coco Crisp, catcher Josh Bard, and relief pitcher David Riske.

The video was directed by David Fincher, and featured scenes of Sting and his band in New York, as well as the elusive Crisp.

The successful 1941 film of the book had a cast including Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O ' Hara, Anna Lee, Roddy McDowall ( as Huw ), Donald Crisp, and Barry Fitzgerald.

* Sir Frank Crisp ( 1843-1919 ), first baronet, lawyer and microscopist, the ideator of Friar Park.

However, his mission is finally realized in his devotion to the “ broken blossom ” Lucy Burrows ( Lillian Gish ), the beautiful but unwanted and abused daughter of boxer Battling Burrows ( Donald Crisp ).

Quentin Crisp ( born Denis Charles Pratt, – ), was an English writer and raconteur.

* Lettering for Brush and Pen, ( 1936 ), Quentin Crisp and A. F.

* How to Have a Life Style, ( 1975 ), Quentin Crisp, 159 pages, Cecil Woolf Publishing, ISBN 0-900821-83-3.

* Chog: A Gothic Fable, ( 1979 ), Quentin Crisp, Methuen, London.

* Quentin Crisp, ( 2002 ), Tim Fountain, Absolute Press, 192 pages, ISBN 1-899791-48-5.

* Quentin Crisp: The Profession of Being, ( 2011 ), Nigel Kelly, McFarland, ISBN 978-0-7864-6475-3.

Most products, such as Cookie Crisp and Chex cereals ( when they were produced by Ralston ), would often alternate weekly or monthly.

Democrats, led by Charles Crisp ( who succeeded Reed as Speaker in the next two Congresses ), then declared that the absence of a quorum ( 179 Representatives ) prevented the House from making decisions.

* Ramona ( 1916 film ), directed by Donald Crisp

* The Student Recreation Center, designed by Tai Soo Kim and built in 1991, includes the Wean Student Center ( a gift of the Raymond John Wean Foundation ), the skylit Crisp Gymnasium with an elevated running track, a weight and exercise room, an athletic training room, and four outdated squash courts which have since been converted into an Erg room, a free weight room, and a climbing wall.

His parents, William — a corporal in the Royal Garrison Artillery — and Marion Hammond ( née Crisp ), lived in the married quarters at Dover Castle where Walter was born.

* Coco Crisp ( born 1979 ), American baseball player

The bar launched on 29 August 1935, under the title of " Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp " ( priced at 2d ), and was sold in London and throughout Southern England.

** Ramona ( 1916 film ), directed by Donald Crisp

* Charles Crisp ( MP ), Member of Parliament for Woodstock

* Charles Frederick Crisp ( 1845 – 1896 ), US Congressman from Georgia

* Charles R. Crisp ( 1870 – 1937 ), US Representative from Georgia, son of Charles Frederick Crisp