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

A brief sketch of some definitions found throughout history by Marcel Cobussen

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

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 time Morris held small jobs, first as a cable television salesman and then as a term-paper writer.

Just about every notable figure of the period is connected with the events in some way, from " Elephant Man " Joseph Merrick to Oscar Wilde, from the Native American writer Black Elk to William Morris, the artist Walter Sickert to Aleister Crowley, who makes a brief appearance as a young boy in short trousers, sucking on a candy cane, and lecturing the police about magic.

* Jim Morris started a brief professional baseball career at the age of 35 ; the 2002 film The Rookie, starring Dennis Quaid, is based on Morris ' life.

It is inspired by the true story of Jim Morris, who had a brief but famous Major League Baseball career.

* Early map and brief history of Morris

At the 1992 Conservative Party conference, Cameron had difficulty trying to arrange to brief the speakers in the economic debate, having to resort to putting messages on the internal television system imploring the mover of the motion, Patricia Morris, to contact him.

It is inspired by the true story of Jim Morris, who had a brief but famous Major League Baseball career.

Morris continued to work in films ( notably ones directed by Rod Lurie ) and had a brief stint on the Xena series in 1999.

They enjoyed a lot of success in their brief two year spell in the North Caledonian League winning both the Chic Allan Cup and Morris Newton Cup in successive seasons, while also winning the Football Times Cup and finishing as runners-up in the league in the 1983-84 season.

It is based on the true story of Jim Morris, who had a brief, but famous Major League Baseball career in 1999.

Lee left the band after a brief tenure and was replaced by Shannon Mulvaney, whom Morris met at a record store.

Morris Barry, a some-time actor and BBC director-he directed several Doctor Who stories in the 1960s-took over as producer and was given a brief to spice the series up in view of the criticisms it had received from the national press.

Following the trio, the second occurrence of the scherzo, unlike the first, plays through without any repetition, after which there is a brief reprise of the trio, and the movement ends with an abrupt coda.

His writing stint was brief, as Lang soon started to work as a director at the German film studio Ufa, and later Nero-Film, just as the Expressionist movement was building.

The outward effect can be as dramatic as a wild thrashing movement ( tonic-clonic seizure ) or as mild as a brief loss of awareness ( absence seizure ).

The origin of the movement was in 1978, when the brief liberalization known as Beijing Spring occurred after the Cultural Revolution.

Before Star Trek: The Next Generation, McFadden often worked for Jim Henson productions, including the films The Dark Crystal ( as choreographer ), Labyrinth ( as Director of Choreography and Puppet Movement ), The Muppets Take Manhattan ( choreographer and a brief on-screen appearance ), and uncredited work on Dreamchild ( again supervising choreography and puppet movement ).

* John Cook Bennett ( 1804 – 1867 ), physician and a ranking and influential ( but short-lived and controversial ) leader of the Latter-Day-Saint movement, who acted as second in command to Joseph Smith, Jr. for a brief period in the early 1840s

At 265 pages, it is a relatively brief history of the anarchist movement, covering its philosophical beginnings in Europe with William Godwin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the further development by the Russians Peter Kropotkin and Mikhail Bakunin and its influence on the working class movements of the 19th and 20th centuries mainly in Europe and Russia, but also in the United States.

A brief attempt by Lewis to revive the movement in 1920 under the name Group X proved unsuccessful.

A handshake is a short ritual in which two people grasp one of each other's like hands, in most cases accompanied by a brief up and down movement of the grasped hands.

< small >< sup > 1 </ sup > The sound of the hammer, which features in the last movement, was stipulated by Mahler to be " brief and mighty, but dull in resonance and with a non-metallic character ( like the fall of an axe ).

In human reproduction, a live birth occurs when a fetus, whatever its gestational age, exits the maternal body and subsequently shows any sign of life, such as voluntary movement, heartbeat, or pulsation of the umbilical cord, for however brief a time and regardless of whether the umbilical cord or placenta are intact.

Morshead had had a brief connection with a similar movement in the mid-1920s.

In a statement released after he entered a guilty plea, Rudolph denied being a supporter of the Christian Identity movement, claiming that his involvement amounted to a brief association with the daughter of a Christian Identity adherent, later identified as Pastor Daniel Gayman.

Jean-Antoine Watteau (; October 10, 1684 – July 18, 1721 ) was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement ( in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens ).

A brief period in the United States saw him exposed to the Black Power movement and the Black Panthers, an influence that he would come to express in his lyrics.

It can also be clearly heard providing the bass line in the brief " Janissary band " section of the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, just prior to the tenor solo.

As can be seen from this brief survey, although many modernist poets were politically engaged, there is no single political position that can be said to be closely allied to the modernist movement in English-language poetry.

The Purgatorio movement ( originally entitled Purgatorio oder Inferno — Purgatory or Hell — but the word " Inferno " was struck out ) is a brief vignette presenting a struggle between alternately bleak and carefree melodies with a perpetuum mobile accompaniment, that are soon subverted by a diabolical undercurrent of more cynical music.

The short movement fails to end in limbo though, as after a brief recapitulation a sudden harp arpeggio and gong stroke pull the rug out from under it ; it is consigned to perdition by a final grim utterance from the double basses.

The first part of the movement contains another brief but notable bit of tone painting: a fortissimo bottom B-flat ( sounding in octaves ) for bassoons and contrabassoon accompanying the last word of the line, " By heavy beasts the ground is trod.

Pierre drove him off after a brief skirmish but did nothing to hinder John's subsequent movement up the Loire valley where he took a few Breton fortresses and then besieged La Roche-aux-Moines.

This movement found its roots during the brief rule of the southern Kalachuri dynasty in those parts of the state.

The stiffest resistance to desegregation busing was the brief mass movement in Boston, Restore Our Alienated Rights.

Smith brought the Share The Wealth Society into a brief coalition with the followers of radio priest Charles Coughlin and old-age pension advocate Francis Townsend in support of the short-lived Union Party, a third party effort which ran William Lemke of North Dakota for President in 1936, but under his leadership, the Share Our Wealth movement quickly fell apart.