Conn's mother Mary died in 1906, and Smythe attributes his mother's drinking with making him a lifelong abstainer of alcohol.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a lifelong abstainer who had contributed $ 350, 000 to the Anti-Saloon League, announced his support for repeal because of the widespread problems caused by prohibition.

The mixing and pushing against the boundaries of established operatic genres would be a continuing hallmark of Salieri's own personal style, and in his choice of material for the plot ( as in his first opera ), he manifested a lifelong interest in subjects drawn from classic drama and literature.

A lifelong chain smoker, Capp died in 1979 from emphysema at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire.

The same year, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was reinstated from a lifelong suspension that was instituted by Selig's predecessor Fay Vincent.

Debts that are derived from being subjected to a ban on business operations ( issued by court, commonly for tax fraud and / or fraudulent business practices ) or owed to a crime victim as compensation for damages are exempted from this and like before this process was introduced in 2006 will remain lifelong.

* Making money from emerging markets: she claims an increasing acceptance from the population of the value of lifelong learning, beyond the normal schooling age, and that institutions can benefit financially from this by adopting distance education.

" George Fenneman, his radio and TV announcer, good-natured foil, and lifelong friend, often related a story in subsequent years of one of his final visits to Groucho's home: When the time came to end the visit, Fenneman lifted Groucho from his wheelchair, put his arms around his torso, and began to " walk " the frail comedian backwards across the room toward his bed.

The Lacedaemonian citizens ( Sparta ) were renowned for their lifelong combat training and almost mythical military prowess, while their greatest adversaries, the Athenians, were exempted from service only after the 60th year of their lives.

In that year, he resigned from the position of Archdruid but retained the lifelong title of ADF Archdruid Emeritus.

This awoke in him a lifelong love for Italian music, particularly opera: I had brought with me from Paris the prejudice of that city against Italian music ; but I had also received from nature a sensibility and niceness of distinction which prejudice cannot withstand.

Thus, at age 22 he began a lifelong career in government, except for a stint in journalism from 1870-78.

A lifelong baseball fan, Landis often slipped away from the courthouse for a White Sox or Cubs game.

Thanks to Schwitters ' lifelong patron and friend Katherine Dreier, his work was exhibited regularly in the US from 1920 onwards.

He studied composition at the Munich Academy in the 1920s with Joseph Haas, a pupil of Max Reger, and later he received enormous intellectual stimulus and encouragement from the conductor Hermann Scherchen, an ally of the Schoenberg school, with whom he had a nearly lifelong mentor-protégé relationship.

She began a lifelong companionship with her cameraman Horst Kettner, who was 40 years her junior and assisted her with the photographs ; they were together from the time she was 60 and he was 20.

The primary sense of literacy still represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from a critical interpretation of the written or printed text.

To that effect, Cassatt's lifelong friend Louisine Havemeyer wrote in her memoirs: " Anyone who had the privilege of knowing Mary Cassatt's mother would know at once that it was from her and her alone that inherited her ability.

Smith is a lifelong fan of Rolls Royce cars, buying his first Silver Shadow at Brighton Racecourse from an advert in Sporting Life for £ 5, 000.

In vertebrates, landmarks of embryonic neural development include the birth and differentiation of neurons from stem cell precursors, the migration of immature neurons from their birthplaces in the embryo to their final positions, outgrowth of axons from neurons and guidance of the motile growth cone through the embryo towards postsynaptic partners, the generation of synapses between these axons and their postsynaptic partners, and finally the lifelong changes in synapses which are thought to underlie learning and memory.

Washington in particular maintained a lifelong pattern of church membership and attendance, and there is conflicting testimony from those who knew him.

Lemmy is well known for his lifelong large intake of alcohol.

A lifelong bachelor and teetotaler ( although Bennett was known by select associates to occasionally drink alcohol when the press was not around to observe this ), he led a rather lonely life in a hotel and later, in a boarding house.

He was born with a mild undiagnosed case of spina bifida occulta, a disorder of the spinal column, which gave him lifelong pain — a factor in his later abuse of alcohol and drugs.

Both of his parents drank fairly heavily, a fact which Lansbury's son-in-law and biographer indicates may have influenced George Junior's lifelong abstinence from alcohol.

The main character in DeVries's novel was based largely on the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who was a compulsive womanizer and lifelong alcoholic, finally succumbing to the effects of alcohol poisoning in November 1953, while on a speaking tour in America.

The couple had one child, Anne, born in 1958: however, Jane's problems with alcohol meant that Rozelle ( along with his lifelong secretary, Thelma Elkjer ) was his daughter's primary caretaker, unheard of in that era.

The disease model of addiction has long contended the maladaptive patterns of alcohol and substance use displayed by addicted individuals are the result of a lifelong disease that is biological in origin and exacerbated by environmental contingencies.

Already at this stage he seems to have developed a taste for alcohol, which later became an addiction, with drastic lifelong consequences.

Thinning of the vermilion of the upper lip and flattening of the philtrum are two of the facial characteristics of Fetal alcohol syndrome, a lifelong disability caused by the consumption of alcohol during pregnancy.

During 1886, he had a brief relationship with George Hukin, who was employed in the Sheffield razor trade ; despite Hukin's subsequent marriage, which caused a rift between them, the men ultimately formed a close and lifelong friendship.

Violet Martin and Edith Somerville were second cousins, and originally met on January 17, 1886 at Castletownshend, after which they became lifelong companions and literary partners.

Skinner began his lifelong career at the Taunton, Massachusetts shop of George Ryder in 1886.

After graduating he spent ten years from 1886 tutoring as a schoolmaster, for a time in France, which created a lifelong interest in French culture, as expressed in his Praise of France ( 1927 ).

Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U. S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

A lifelong inventor, Lovelock has created and developed many scientific instruments, some of which were designed for NASA in its program of planetary exploration.

In 2010, honoring his lifelong commitment to the music of the city of his birth, and to commemorate the 100th anniversary of that event, Prima was honored by being the annual poster subject of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, in a painting created by artist and singer Tony Bennett, under his birth name Anthony Benedetto.

He created duets with other performers: a recorded duet with the oration by Martin Luther King, " I Have a Dream "; a duet with video artist Kit Fitzgerald, who improvised video imagery while Roach spontaneously created the music ; a classic duet with his lifelong friend and associate Dizzy Gillespie ; a duet concert recording with Mal Waldron.

Following retirement from playing in league football in 1994, Blissett created a huge stir in the Eastern Counties Football League by agreeing to play for Fakenham Town in Norfolk, whose chairman was a lifelong Watford fan, and big crowds turned out wherever he played.

" A lifelong artist, Boon also created drawings or paintings for the Minutemen releases Joy, The Punch Line, The Politics of Time, Project: Mersh and 3-Way Tie ( For Last ).

C. S. Lewis referred to his older brother, Warren (“ Warnie ”), as “ my dearest and closest friend .” The lifelong friendship formed as the boys played together in their home, Little Lea, on the outskirts of Belfast, writing and illustrating stories for their created world called " Boxen " ( a combination of India and a previous incarnation called " Animal-Land ").

Acknowledging that the major obstacle to people becoming information literate citizens, who are prepared for lifelong learning, " is a lack of public awareness of the problems created by information illiteracy ," the report recommended the formation of a coalition of national organizations to promote information literacy .”

A lifelong adherent of the exiled Royal Family of Stuart, he was created, on 13 December 1722, by James Francis Edward Stuart ( recognised by Jacobites as " King James III ") Earl of Falkland, in the Jacobite Peerage.

Hjalti Arnason, a lifelong friend of Jon Pall, created the Jon Pall Sigmarsson Classic international strongman contest in 2010 in honor of Jon Pall.

The station was named for Richard B. Ogilvie, a board member of the Milwaukee Road and a lifelong railroad proponent, who, as governor of Illinois, created the RTA, which is the parent agency of Metra.

The Board has created a program called the " Maintenance of Certification Program for Family Physicians " ( MC-FP ) which will require family physicians to continuously demonstrate proficiency in four areas of clinical practice: professionalism, self-assessment / lifelong learning, cognitive expertise, and performance in practice.

In 1873, he was created a lifelong member of the Imperial Council of the Bavarian Crown.

He was a lifelong resident of Elgin and created several works honoring the city's history.

In 1784, he accompanied his lifelong friend George, Lord McCartney, whom he first met in the West Indies, to Madras to negotiate peace with Tipu Sultan, for which service Staunton was created a baronet of Ireland, of Cargins in the County of Galway on 31 October 1785.