The centerpiece of Gobel's comedy show was his monologue about his supposed past situations and experiences, with stories and sketches allegedly about his real-life wife, Alice ( nicknamed " Spooky Old Alice " and played by actress Jeff Donnell ).

* The Good Old Days ( 1953 to 1983 ) was a popular BBC television light entertainment programme recorded live at the Leeds City Varieties which recreated an authentic atmosphere of the Victorian – Edwardian music hall with songs and sketches of the era performed by present-day performers in the style of the original artistes.

Old engravings hung in the guest bedrooms, along with some of Hitler's small water-colour sketches.

He played a character named Ikey Vanjacklen, " the barber's boy " in a piece called " Going for the Cup, or, Old Mrs. Williams's Dance ", one of the earliest known minstrel sketches.

In Paris he made copies after the Old Masters in the Louvre, and admired the oil sketches of Eugène Delacroix.

The sketches were usually built around one of Red's many characters, including " Deadeye ", an incredibly inept sheriff in the Old West ; " San Fernando Red ", a shady real estate agent ( named for the San Fernando Valley, which was still a largely rural area well outside Los Angeles at the time that the show began ); " Cauliflower McPugg ", a punchdrunk boxer, Clem Kadiddlehopper, a hick who was identified in at least one sketch as being from Cornpone County, Tennessee, and " Freddie the Freeloader ".

It housed the increasingly bountiful collection of artworks ( pencil sketches, architectural drawings, watercolours, copies of Old Masters and so on ), minerals, geological specimens, casts of sculpture, manuscripts ( most of them medieval in origin ), books ( many of them rare ) and a multitude of other beautiful and precious items.

* The Old Lady Job Justification Hearings-A series of sketches in Series 4.

During his time in the Old Manse, Hawthorne published about twenty sketches and tales, including " The Birth-Mark " and " Rappaccini's Daughter ", which would be included in the collection Mosses from an Old Manse ( 1846 ).

In Brit: Old Soldier, among the bonus sketches Robert Kirkman states that Brit, Capes, Tech Jacket, and Invincible all take place in the same universe.

But his best efforts in fiction were his short stories and sketches Short Sixes ( 1891 ), More Short Sixes ( 1894 ), Made in France ( 1893 ), Zadoc Pine and Other Stories ( 1891 ), Love in Old Cloathes and Other Stories ( 1896 ), and Jersey Street and Jersey Lane ( 1896 ).

* William James Müller, Muller's sketches of the age of Francis the First, 26 large and fine tinted drawings on stone of splendid Architecture and Picturesque Old Buildings in France ( H. Graves, 1841 )

Like many areas in Manchester, Blackley is very well served by buses primarily along the main arterial routes of Rochdale Road ( A664 ), and Cheetham Hill Road / Bury Old Road ( A665 ) directly to and from Manchester city centre.

It is within walking distance of Old Town Pasadena and the Pasadena Playhouse District and therefore the two locations are frequent getaways for Caltech students.

Under the District Councils Act 1895, The Maldens & Coombe Urban District Council was created ( the plural relating to Old Malden and New Malden ).

Communities in eastern Galveston include Lake Madeline, Offats Bayou, Central City, Fort Crockett, Bayou Shore, Lasker Park, Carver Park, Kempner Park, Old City / Central Business District, San Jacinto, East End, and Lindale.

Other alternatives included the incorporation of Madrid to the community of Castile and León ( the historical region of Old Castile ) or its controversial constitution as something similar to a " Federal District " or territory, emulating Mexico City, or Washington, D. C.

In 2010, the Estuary Transit District began public transit service between the New London transportation center and Old Saybrook.

* Old Towne Conyers Historic District

* Old Richmond Historic District

* Sri Vuddanda Veerabhadra Swamy Devasthanam, Yadava Bazaar, Old town, Macherla, Guntur District, andhra Pradesh.

* Old Capital District

* Old Ephriam District

* Old Juniper District

* Old Ephriam District

* Old Capitol Valley District

* Old Trail District, serving southern Randolph, Wayne, Union, and Franklin Counties

* Old Sycamore District serves Auglaize County, Ohio and Mercer County, Ohio.

* Old Portage District

* Old Colony District serves Gloucester and Salem Counties

The Sulphur Springs Old School Complex Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

That year the city implemented an aggressive redevelopment design plan by ROMA Design Group that centered on the Old Town Waterfront and Historic Main Street Shopping District.

Sherman has one area on the National Register of Historic Places: the Sherman Historic District, bounded roughly by the intersection of Old Greenswood Road and Route 37, northeast past the intersection of Route 37 East and Route 39 North and Sawmill Road.

* The Washington Green Historic District encompasses the area around the Congregational Church and includes portions of Green Hill Road, Kirby Road, Parsonage Lane, and Old North Road.

The public buildings in the National Register Historic District include the First Congregational Church ( 1818 ,) the Old Town Hall ( 1846 ,) the United Methodist Church, the St. Paul's Episcopal Church ( 1785 ,) and the North Congregational Church ( 1816.

The Estuary Transit District provides public transportation services throughout Old Saybrook and the surrounding towns through its 9 Town Transit services.

* Old Lyme Historic District — Lyme Street from Shore Road to Sill Lane, Old Boston Post Road from Sill Lane to Rose Lane ( added November 14, 1971 )

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

Old Order, acted and atonally sung by Grunnfeu Arapacis, the lovely Serbantian import, then entered and delivered the well-known invocation to the god Phineoppus, whereupon the stage is quite unexpectedly visited by a company of wandering Gorshek priests, symbolizing Love, Lust, Prudence and General Motors, respectively.

According to the myth, Old Order then vanishes at stage left and reappears at extreme stage right, but Director Shuz skillfully sidesteps the rather gooshey problem of stage effects by simply having Miss Arapacis walk across the stage.

Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.

Old sores could be healed by the constant application of a wash made of equal parts vinegar and water.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

`` A Toast To The Bride '', sung by Clarence Nordstrom, playing a character called Old Man Toomey, is quite simple, direct and touching.

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

Sameness for the Old Man was framed in by a wall of ginkgo trees which divided these quarters from the city.

Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.

Around 500 BCE, following the Achaemenid conquest of Mesopotamia under Darius I, Old Aramaic was adopted by the conquerors as the " vehicle for written communication between the different regions of the vast empire with its different peoples and languages.

Imperial Aramaic was highly standardised ; its orthography was based more on historical roots than any spoken dialect and was inevitably influenced by Old Persian.

At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after Victor Trumper had scored 104 on a " bad wicket ", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day.

The earliest articles of faith were said to have been composed in the first century by the apostles themselves and sung publicly while on mission ( see Old Roman Symbol ).

Two blocks west of the Old Town is the Kuchlbauer Brewery and beer garden featuring the Kuchlbauer Tower, a colorful and unconventional observation tower designed by Viennese architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser.