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Governor Alfred E. Smith was the official host at the children's party.
One of the people who was afraid of Alfred was his own brother, Lew.
Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.
It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.
The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.
Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.
And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.
Spring was life -- and Alfred Alpert in his sickroom was death.
My father, who liked Alfred very much, was a constant visitor.
Alfred was getting too sick to stay in his own home.
Harry ran to the side of the car where Alfred was sitting and looked at him, begging him to speak.
Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.
He was able to smell a bargain -- and a masterpiece -- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: `` I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''.
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.
Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).
The family was impoverished, and only Alfred and his three brothers survived past childhood.
Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

Alfred and dressed
She coaxes Alfred to leave the room ( involving another encounter in the library, Noch mehr Bücher ) while she gets dressed, but when Alfred returns, Sarah is gone and Herbert is in her place.
Alfred and Professor Abronisus sneak their way inside dressed as members of the undead.
The cover art portrays Alfred E. Neuman as Willard siccing an army of rodents ( all dressed in Mickey Mouse pants and shoes with Mouseketeer Ears ) on a hapless Ernest Borgnine.
On the night of 31 August 1939 a small group of German operatives, dressed in Polish uniforms and led by Alfred Naujocks, seized the Gleiwitz station and broadcast a short anti-German message in Polish ( sources vary on the content on the message ).

Alfred and for
My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.
Tessie could do nothing for Alfred.
Instead she waited for Alfred to get better and take care of her.
Alfred, leaning on Meltzer, stopped for a minute to look at Tessie.
-- it evaporated, disappeared, and came back to the earth as rain -- maybe for another well or another stream or another Alfred Alpert.
On New Year's Eve, Alfred Harcourt drove him up the Hudson to Bill Brown's Training Camp, a well-known establishment for the speedy if temporary rehabilitation of drunkards who could no longer help themselves.
-- Alfred Hayes, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said Tuesday `` there is no present need for far-reaching reforms '' which would basically alter the international financial system.
Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.
* Henry, Lyell, Jr. Zig-Zag-and Swirl: Alfred W. Lawson's Quest for Greatness, University of Iowa Press, 1991.
Alfred the Great is scolded by his subject, a neatherd's wife, for not turning the breads but readily eating them when they are baked in her cottage.
By terms of the treaty, moreover, Alfred was to have control over the Mercian city of London and its mints — at least for the time being.
After the signing of the treaty with Guthrum, Alfred was spared any large-scale conflicts for some time.
This was not, however, the point in which Alfred came to be known as King of England ; in fact he would never adopt the title for himself.
( It is probable that, under the classical tutelage of Asser, Alfred utilised the design of Greek and Roman warships, with high sides, designed for fighting rather than for navigation.
This is the reason that Alfred divided his code into precisely 120 chapters: 120 was the age at which Moses died and, in the number-symbolism of early medieval biblical exegetes, 120 stood for law.
22: 39 – 40 ) to love your secular lord as you would love the Lord Christ himself underscores the importance that Alfred placed upon lordship, which he understood as a sacred bond instituted by God for the governance of man.
Secular and spiritual authority were not distinct categories for Alfred.
Alfred undoubtedly exaggerated for dramatic effect the abysmal state of learning in England during his youth.
Following the example of Charlemagne, Alfred established a court school for the education of his own children, those of the nobility, and " a good many of lesser birth ".
Believing that without Christian wisdom there can be neither prosperity nor success in war, Alfred aimed " to set to learning ( as long as they are not useful for some other employment ) all the free-born young men now in England who have the means to apply themselves to it.
Alfred sought to remedy this through an ambitious court-centred programme of translating into English the books he deemed " most necessary for all men to know.
The Proverbs of Alfred, a thirteenth-century work, contains sayings that are not likely to have originated with Alfred but attest to his posthumous medieval reputation for wisdom.

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