After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.

Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.

After being treated for strabismus in childhood, he refused to wear an eye patch.

After a successful childhood acting career, Coleman struggled financially later in life.

After spending part of his childhood years with his maternal grandfather Martin Javeršek in the Slovenian village of Podsreda, he entered primary school in 1900 at Kumrovec, he failed the 2nd grade and graduated in 1905.

After his first wife died in 1952, he remarried in 1953 with childhood friend Astrid Johannessen.

After a childhood of beauty pageants, Thiessen was crowned Miss Junior America in 1987 and a year later won Teen magazine's " Great Model Search " in 1988, by gracing the cover of that issue.

After planning and coordinating another successful wedding ceremony, San Francisco wedding planner Mary ( Jennifer Lopez ) is re-introduced to childhood acquaintance Massimo ( Justin Chambers ) by her father ( Alex Rocco ) who wants the two of them to marry.

After her parents divorced in 1950, she spent most of her childhood in Wilmington, North Carolina, with her grandmother until her family relocated to Queens when she was a teenager.

After a childhood stay at Callipers Preparatory School ( no longer extant ) he entered Harrow School in 1865 at age 14, at which he did well.

After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from a number of schools and eventually spent three months in prison for credit card fraud, he was able to secure a place at Queens ' College, Cambridge where he studied English Literature.

After Tom Powers ( James Cagney ) and his childhood friend, Matt Doyle ( Edward Woods ), grow into young adults, the film follows them as they gradually progress from small crimes ( such as stealing watches from a department store as children ) to worse crimes ( such as killing a policeman during a botched robbery attempt as teenagers ), after being hired by local bootlegger Paddy Ryan ( Robert Emmett O ' Connor ).

After spending his childhood among shepherds, he gathered a band of yougsters of his age, and founded the city of Praeneste.

After returning to the U. S., she spent her childhood in Nashville, Tennessee.

After high school, Troisi wrote some poems inspired by his favourite author, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and, in 1969, started to play in a small local theatre together with some childhood friends ( including Lello Arena and Enzo Decaro ).

After winning the third LaMotta fight less than three weeks later, Robinson then defeated his childhood idol: former champion Henry Armstrong.

After the publication of a dozen of his songs late the preceding year, Wolf once again desired to return to composing, and travelled to the vacation home of the Werners — family friends whom Wolf had known since childhood — in Perchtoldsdorf ( a short train ride from Vienna ), to escape and compose in solitude.

After enjoying an informal and unstructured childhood, Elisabeth, who was shy and introverted by nature, and more so among the stifling formality of Habsburg court life, had difficulty adapting to the Hofburg and its rigid protocols and strict etiquette.

After his parents divorced during his childhood, his mother moved with him to Brooklyn, New York, where he was raised.

After 1745 Michael spent the majority of his childhood in the care of his aunt and celebrated actress Susannah Maria Cibber due to his mother's frequent illnesses and his father's busy career.

After the school closed, Peabody published Record of a School, outlining the plan of the school and Alcott's philosophy of early childhood education, which had drawn on German models.

After a childhood fever, he suffered from very sensitive eyes, and believed that he would soon go blind.

After an unsuccessful proposal of marriage to his childhood sweetheart, he left Copenhagen to serve as the pastor of a ship during its two year journey to China.

After college, already as fluent in Yiddish as well as English since childhood, Greenberg taught himself Italian and German in addition to French and Latin.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

After Roman times, Einhard mentions that in 765 – 6 Pippin the Younger spent both Christmas and Easter at Aquis villa (""), which must have been sufficiently equipped to support the royal household for several months.

After his stint as bishop, he spent the remainder of his life partly in retirement in the various houses of his order, yet often preaching throughout southern Germany.

After reaching orbit, the crew spent time adapting themselves to the zero-gravity environment and preparing the spacecraft for Trans Lunar Injection, the burn of the third stage rocket that would propel them to the Moon.

After escaping from the hands of Kunz von Kaufungen, who had abducted him together with his brother Ernest, he spent some time at the court of the emperor Frederick III in Vienna.

After that, Bernard spent most of his time in Italy convincing the Italians to pledge allegiance to Innocent.

After Albert's death, Victoria spent increasing periods at Balmoral, staying up to four months a year during early summer and autumn.

After the aminotriazole scare, Ocean Spray reorganized and spent substantial sums on product development.

After time spent in Palestine in 1882 – 83, General Charles George Gordon found a location outside the old city walls that he suggested to have been the real location of Golgotha.

After completing Low and " Heroes ", Bowie spent much of 1978 on the Isolar II world tour, bringing the music of the first two Berlin Trilogy albums to almost a million people during 70 concerts in 12 countries.

After flying to San Francisco for a recipe for sourdough bread, he came home and spent hours preparing loaves.

After some ten years of development, which Zamenhof spent translating literature into Esperanto as well as writing original prose and verse, the first book of Esperanto grammar was published in Warsaw in July 1887.

After an evening spent with friends and acquaintances, he spent the night there, and set out the next morning for home.

After this formal education, Elizabeth spent the next nine years tending to domestic duties, but with her lively mind, energy and vigour, the prospect of a solely domestic existence would not satisfy her, so she continued to study Latin and arithmetic in the mornings and also read widely.

" After his death, a friend of Armstrong estimated that 90 percent of his time was spent on litigation against RCA.

After recovering at home, Capra then moved out and spent the next few years living in flophouses in San Francisco and hopping freight trains, wandering around the Western U. S. To support himself, he took odd jobs working on farms, as a movie extra, playing poker, or selling local oil well stocks.

After teaching briefly in a Berlin girls ' school, Cantor took up a position at the University of Halle, where he spent his entire career.

After several more years spent in the Mediterranean, in 1891 they went to the Canary Islands, and it was here that Gardner first developed his lifelong interest in weaponry.

After the cartridge was fired the continuing action of the cam drew back the lock bringing with it the spent cartridge which then dropped to the ground.

After fishing his command out of the river, frustrations are met during the months spent on repairs.

After release he spent several months as beachcomber and island rover ( Omoo in Tahitian ) eventually crossing over to Moorea.

After he assumed command, Hannibal spent two years consolidating his holdings and completing the conquest of Hispania south of the Ebro.

After school, Harry took a gap year, during which he spent time in Australia, working ( as his father had done in his youth ) on a cattle station and participating in the Young England vs Young Australia Polo Test Match.

After their first few encounters, she found that she enjoyed his company and spent the next few years getting to know him and preparing herself to be the Marchesa of Mantua.