In the following sketch we shall present a brief outline of his life and let him as much as possible speak for himself.

Groucho's final appearance was a brief sketch with George Burns in the Bob Hope television Special Joys in 1976.

" A brief sketch of the Morris movement " was a 1911 pamphlet at the 50th anniversary of the Morris & Co.

An individual sketch or vignette is a brief scene or skit formerly used in vaudeville and used today on variety shows, comedy programs, adult entertainment, talk shows, or certain children's television series ( such as Sesame Street ).

A Rural Line on Education, a brief sketch specifically written for radio, aired on Pittsbugh's KDKA in 1921, according to historian Bill Jaker.

A sketch of Mary during her brief period as Queen of France

He was also famous for a brief sketch that he did on the show, during which he simply improvised with a large pile of dirt and some army toys.

In 1969, after a brief stint as a hostess on the ABC Television series Music Scene, Tomlin joined NBC's sketch comedy show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

The only account of the life of Zhuangzi is a brief sketch in chapter 63 of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, where he is described as a minor official from the town of Meng ( in modern Anhui ) in the state of Song, living in the time of King Hui of Liang and King Xuan of Qi ( late 4th century BCE ).

This claim is corroborated in a brief biographical sketch written by Tuck )

He founded a studio which churned out portraits on an almost industrial scale, relying on a brief sketch of the face with details added to a formulaic model, aided by the fashion for gentlemen to wear full wigs.

Near the end of each episode, there was usually a sketch of some sort, followed by each of the guests doing a brief monologue on a particular topic that was discussed earlier in the episode.

There is a brief appearance during the sketch by Mrs Twolumps, presumably the Minister's secretary, bringing in coffee with full silly walk ( played by Carol Cleveland in the Hollywood Bowl version ).

Dunnett left a very brief outline sketch of an 8th Johnson novel with her papers.

In 1861 he published Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, a brief sketch of the lives and work of Jonathan Swift, Henry Flood, Henry Grattan and Daniel O ' Connell, which showed great promise.

He compiled, chiefly from Livy, a brief sketch of the history of Rome from the foundation of the city to the closing of the temple of Janus by Augustus ( 25 BC ).

* Berwald Biography, a brief biographical sketch on the site of GMN ClassicalPlus

* A brief sketch of Ratu Mara's life ( Daily Telegraph ) ( UK )

The Choate Story Book ( 1903 ) contains a few of his addresses and after-dinner speeches, and is prefaced by a brief biographical sketch.

Rowan Atkinson's " Indian Waiter " sketch, from his 1980s stage tour, for example, directly mocked such behaviour, whilst Alexei Sayle's " Stuff " in the early 1990s included a brief monologue where the residents of New Delhi got drunk and ate steak and kidney pies on a Friday night.

In 1990, he returned to California to complete his Masters of Pacific International Affairs ( MPIA ), and received the degree in 1991 .< ref name =" IRPS "> A brief biographical sketch of Aldwinckle and other 1991 UCSD IR / PS alumni is available at the official university website.

A few anecdotes survive about this man, in the brief biographical sketch of him given in the Book on Thirty Tyrants in the Historia Augusta: it is stated for example that he was raised to the throne because of his name ( Regalianus, " of a king " or " kingly "); when his soldiers heard this jest they greeted Regalianus as their emperor.

The following brief grammatical sketch is based on Ghosh 2008.

xvi gives a brief sketch of the future development of Jewish religious philosophy based on the principles of Hegel.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

In a brief chapter dealing with `` Various Other Diagnoses '', he quotes isolated passages from some writers whose views seem to corroborate his own, and finds it `` most remarkable that a critical view of twentieth-century society was already held by a number of thinkers living in the nineteenth.

( Hume 1974: 355-356 ) He also argues in brief against the idea that causes are mere occasions of the will of some god ( s ), a view associated with the philosopher Nicolas Malebranche.

Both of these processes were in most cases brief and formulaic, but they opened up in the possibility, if some citizen wanted to take some matter up, of a contest before a jury court.

Here is a list of some of the most important vertebrate brain components, along with a brief description of their functions as currently understood:

In general, the word breviary may be used to refer to an abridged version of any text or a brief account or summary of some subject, but is primarily used to refer to the Catholic liturgical book.

He also published some tales in The Overland Monthly in this brief foray into fiction which preceded his poetic career.

Terry Melcher first made a brief attempt to become a surf music singing star, then became a staff producer for Columbia Records in the 1960s, and was famous for producing some latter-day recordings by The Beach Boys and The Byrds.

After reading Hegel's Science of Logic in 1914, Lenin made some brief notes outlining three " elements " of logic.

Mussolini believed that following a brief entry of Italy into war with France, followed by the imminent French surrender, Italy could gain some territorial concessions from France and then concentrate its forces on a major offensive in Egypt where British and Commonwealth forces were outnumbered by Italian forces.

In brief, Bacon is considered by some jurists to be the father of modern Jurisprudence.

However, some brief stop motion was used in a couple of quick sequences.

Together with the account in his Life of some of the same events, it also provides the reader with an overview of Josephus ' own part in the events since his return to Jerusalem from a brief visit to Rome in the early 60s ( Life 13 – 17 ).

She stayed at her mother's home in Palmdale during the brief time she was out of prison and spent some time hiking with her husband.

By contrast, court decisions in some civil law jurisdictions ( most prominently France ) tend to be extremely brief, mentioning only the relevant legislation and not going into great detail about how a decision was reached.

He supported Cesare Borgia and reconfirmed him as Gonfalonier ; but after a brief pontificate of twenty-six days he died ( 18 October 1503 ) of an ulcer in the leg, or, as some have alleged, of poison administered at the instigation of Pandolfo Petrucci, governor of Siena.

After some brief confusion over who actually has the letter, they find it and end up opening it.

Maurice Keen provides a brief summary and useful critique of the once-popular view that Robin Hood had mythological origins, while ( unlike some ) refraining from utterly and finally dismissing it.

In 1924, after the Rome correspondent of a British paper described the traditional Italian hand-game of morra, which has some similarities to rock-paper-scissors, a brief correspondence began on the subject.

It also lies near the ecliptic, which causes the Moon, and some of the planets to occasionally pass through it for brief periods of time.

While some evolutionary biologists claim that speciation events have remained relatively constant over time, some palaeontologists such as Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould have argued that species usually remain unchanged over long stretches of time, and that speciation occurs only over relatively brief intervals, a view known as punctuated equilibrium.

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