To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

The thorough rejection stung ; Allen wrote to Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull, " How the old men came to reject me I cannot conceive inasmuch as I saved them from the incroachments of New York.

Unknown to Allen, British prisoners now included General Prescott, captured trying to escape from Montreal, and the letter came into the hands of the British cabinet.

The first influences of African American Culture into hymns came from Slave Songs of the United States a collection of slave hymns complied by William Francis Allen who had difficulty pinning them down from the oral tradition, and though he succeeded, he points out the awe inspiring effect of the hymns when sung in by their originators.

Trouble came from an unexpected quarter — Massachusetts Bank Commissioner Joseph Allen.

New competition came from Burns Philp, operating from what is now Kiribati, with competition from Levers Pacific Plantations from 1903 and from Captain E. F. H. Allen of the Samoa Shipping and Trading Company from 1911.

Allen testified that Holliday fired the first shot and that the second one also came from the Earp party, while Billy Clanton had his hands in the air.

George Allen came with the idea of Zool as he was criticized on his previous game Switchblade II for having a lack of enemies.

The founders of modern American stand-up comedy include Jack Benny, Bob Hope, George Burns, Fred Allen, Milton Berle and Frank Fay all of whom came from vaudeville.

Most of the cast came from Broadway careers, but only Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington, and William Allen Young appeared in both the movie and the original off-Broadway play with the Negro Ensemble Company in the New York version.

In July 1978, during the C. Allen Muncy campaign Richard Nixon came to Hyden to make his first public speech since resigning from the presidency during the Watergate crisis.

A period of success for Australian musical theatre came in the 1990s with the debut of musical biographies of Australian music singers Peter Allen ( The Boy From Oz in 1998 ) and Johnny O ' Keefe ( Shout!

A typical display of his affection for Richards came when his nephew, Allen, tried to put the moves on Mary.

This piece came to the attention of Ronald Reagan through his National Security Adviser Richard V. Allen.

Enduring various upheavals at home ( other aunts came and went, prompting several moves ), Allen also took up juggling while learning as much as possible about comedy.

Her break came with a bit part in 1986's Pretty in Pink which led to more substantial roles in Sweet Revenge with Nancy Allen and Cocktail, with Tom Cruise and Elisabeth Shue.

The awards continued to amass as the 2005 season came to a close with a league-high 12 Argos being named to the East Division All-Star team and five players being named CFL All-Stars including Damon Allen, Jonathan Brown, Kevin Eiben, Michael Fletcher and Jordan Younger.

The town's name came from the person primarily responsible for chartering the community, Ira Allen.

Allen noted that " Michael had to do the pseudo-intellectual, the genuine intellectual, the pedant, and he came in and nailed it from the start ".

This was when Allen came to believe that systems may be created and contain intelligence and have the ability to adapt.

Still, Ransom's former students, specifically Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren, had a greater hand in developing many of the key concepts ( like " close reading ") that later came to define the New Criticism.

In the second innings Colin Cowdrey came out to bat with a broken arm with victory, defeat or a tie still possible in the last two balls, but David Allen blocked them for a draw.

When it came time to deliver the live commercial for Lipton tea and soups, Allen impulsively prepared the soup and the tea on camera, and poured both into a ukulele.

Accounts from Hingham's earliest years indicate some friction between the disparate groups, culminating in an 1645 episode involving the town's " trainband ", when some Hingham settlers supported Eames, and others supported Bozoan Allen, a prominent early Hingham settler and Hobart ally who came from King's Lynn in Norfolk, East Anglia.

Ironically, it is also in the Reeve films that Clark Kent's persona has the greatest resemblance to Woody Allen, though his conscious model was Cary Grant's character in Bringing up Baby.

While many historians have believed that Allen took these actions because he already held Wentworth grants of his own, there is no evidence that he was issued any such grants until after he had been asked to take up the defense of grants held by others.

Allen, whether motivated by patriotic impulses ( as he describes in his account of the events ), or by the realization that the action might improve the political position of his side in the grants disputes, agreed to help, and began rounding up the Green Mountain Boys.

The people of Cork, when they learned that the famous Ethan Allen was in port, took up a collection to provide him and his men with clothing and other supplies.

Allen, after being promised land, traveled to the area and began stirring up not just Pennsylvania authorities but also his long-time nemesis, Governor Clinton of New York, by proposing that a new state be carved out of the disputed area and several counties of New York.

In 1989 Coppola teamed up with fellow Oscar-winning directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen for an anthology film called New York Stories.

The band reunited with Neil in 1997, after their current manager, Allen Kovac, and Neil's manager, Bert Stein, set up a meeting between Neil, Lee, and Sixx.

Meanwhile, a 39-yard run from Allen set up a 21-yard field goal from kicker Chris Bahr to make the final score of the game 38-9.

A decommissioned U. S. ballistic missile submarine, the USS Ethan Allen, is blown up underwater as a deception ploy.

When the American Revolutionary War started in 1775, Ethan Allen and a troop of his men, along with Connecticut Colonel Benedict Arnold, marched up to Lake Champlain and captured the strategically important military posts at Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Fort George, all in New York.

Sixtus had Cardinal Allen draw up the An Admonition to the Nobility and Laity of England, a proclamation to be published in England if the invasion had been successful.

When Virgil Earp learned that Wyatt was talking to the Cowboys at Spangenberg's gun shop he picked up a 10-gauge or 12-gauge, short, double-barreled shotgun from the Wells Fargo office around the corner on Allen Street.

Peter Cowie suggests that " Allen breaks up his extended shots with more orthodox cutting back and forth in conversation pieces, so that the forward momentum of the film is sustained.

The Heat also signed two young, undrafted players in Malik Allen and Mike James to make up for not having a first-round pick in the draft.

Odom, Alston, Haslem and Wade teamed up with Grant, Jones, Allen and both Butlers formed one of the most surprising teams of the season.

Her bit part in Annie Hall ended up on the cutting room floor, and their relationship, though never publicly acknowledged by Allen, began when she was 17 years old and a student at New York ’ s Stuyvesant High School.

Steve Allen was the first host of The Tonight Show, which began as a local New York show, being picked up by the NBC network in 1954.

Allen, however, continued to develop the Gong mythology from the late seventies up until the nineties in his solo work, and with bands such as Euterpe, Planet Gong ( which comprised Allen and Smyth playing with the British festival band Here & Now ), and New York Gong ( comprising Allen and the musicians who would later become known as Material ), while Smyth formed a separate band Mother Gong, with Jean-Paul Vivini from the band Can AM Des Puig ( author of The Book of AM produced by Daevid Allen ), playing in Spain and England.

Gong played at the Big Chill festival in the UK between on 9 August 2009 with Allen, Smyth, Hillage, Giraudy, Sturt, Taylor and Travis in the line up, at the Beautiful Days Festival in Devon, 23 August 2009, and at the Lounge on the Farm festival near Canterbury in the summer of 2009.

Burns and Allen met in 1922 and first performed together at the Hill Street Theatre in Newark, New Jersey, continued in small town vaudeville theaters, married in Cleveland on January 7, 1926, and moved up a notch when they signed with the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuit in 1927.

Along the way, the duo launched the temporary running gag that made them near-irrevocable radio stars: the famous hunt for Gracie's " lost brother ," which began on January 4, 1933 and eventually became a cross-network phenomenon --- Gracie was also liable to turn up on other shows ( especially those produced by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, which produced the Burns & Allen series ) looking for her brother.