In the meantime, Finn makes the acquaintance of a charming, clever foreigner, Madame Max Goesler, the young and beautiful widow of a rich Jewish banker.

Returning to London, he renews his acquaintance with the wealthy widow, Madame Max Goesler.

" Likewise, referring to Churchill's meeting with Wingate in Quebec, Max Hastings wrote that, " Wingate proved a short-lived protegé: closer acquaintance caused Churchill to realise that he was too mad for high command.

While at Rocca's underground casino, he makes the acquaintance of Monique ( Kathryn Harrold ), a woman who works for Rocca's top lieutenant Max Keller ( Robert Davi ).

Throughout his career Pearson made the acquaintance of many other celebrated writers and performers, including George Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris, Lord Alfred Douglas, Max Beerbohm, Sir Francis Galton, Winston Churchill, P. G. Wodehouse, and G. K. Chesterton.

* 2010: In his memoir Assholes Finish First, Tucker Max recounts that he gained access to Gramercy Park to win a bet with a female acquaintance.

His advocacy of Granville Bantock, Havergal Brian, Dussek, Medtner, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Franz Schmidt, Robert Volkmann and others was as sincere, and informed by an acquaintance with the music as close, as his discussions of Schubert ’ s piano sonatas or Haydn's string quartets.

" Margaret's acquaintance Gore Vidal wrote, " She was far too intelligent for her station in life.

In the excitement following the rescue and safe transport of fugitive slave William " Jerry " Henry in Syracuse on October 1, 1851, Frances wrote to her husband, " two fugitives have gone to Canada — one of them our acquaintance John.

Sargent wrote to a mutual acquaintance:

Biographers Joe Nick Patoski and Bill Crawford wrote that she " squandered his road earnings on dope while running around with other men that one acquaintance glibly described as ' police characters.

Here he was persuaded by an acquaintance to return to Rome, for it is generally agreed that he is the Florus who wrote the well-known lines quoted together with Hadrian's answer by Aelius Spartianus ( Hadrian I 6 ).

Eusebius wrote in the Vita that Constantine himself had told him this story " and confirmed it with oaths " late in life " when I was deemed worthy of his acquaintance and company.

Goldsmith also wrote Gizmo's song, which was hummed by a child actress and acquaintance of Goldsmith's, rather than Mandel himself.

Jung wrote to Sigmund Freud of “ a very pleasant and perhaps valuable acquaintance, our first Italian, a Dr. Assagioli from the psychiatric clinic in Florence ”.

Noted fantasy author Harlan Ellison, a fan of the Rocketeer and also an acquaintance of Dave Stevens, wrote the introduction to the collection ; both Dave Stevens and Harlan Ellison signed the limited edition on a specially bound-in bookplate.

Michael Riconosciuto, a witness who testified before the House Judiciary Committee investigating the Inslaw Affair, has been described as a young electronics whiz from Tacoma who was a close acquaintance of Crisman's, and who helped Crisman sweep ( and possibly plant ) electronic eavesdropping devices during the years Crisman wrote Murder Of A City, Tacoma.

Wolfe wrote that his first acquaintance with a new style of reporting came in a 1962 Esquire article about Joe Louis by Gay Talese.

Sharp obligingly wrote out the poem and his address on a serviette and gave it to his new acquaintance.

In due course he wrote that if further progress were to be made, that certain people of his acquaintance would need to come out from England.

Jacqueline van Maarsen agreed, but Otto Frank assumed his daughter had her real acquaintance in mind when she wrote to someone of the same name.

While in garrison at Bordeaux Mirabeau had made the acquaintance of Montesquieu, and after retiring from the army he wrote his first work, his Testament Politique ( 1747 ), which demanded for the prosperity of France a return of the French noblesse to their old position in the Middle Ages.

His residence at Rome he turned to good account by diligent study of its ancient monuments, by examination of the literary treasures of its libraries, and by cultivating the acquaintance of men eminent in literature and in art, with whom he was brought into contact through his translation of Francesco Cardinal Barberini's Life of Pius V. Among his friends was Nicolas Poussin, whose counsels were of great value to him, and under whose guidance he even attempted to paint and whose biography Félibien wrote, which remains " the most persuasive guide to the work, as to the life " of Poussin, as the biography's modern editor Claire Pace observed.

Hopper and Morris were introduced by a mutual acquaintance and became fast friends ; they wrote their first song together at Hopper's apartment the day they met.

He also wrote a biography of Picasso, who was an acquaintance.

On September 2, as soon as General Schuyler's agreement with the expedition was known, Arnold wrote a letter to Nathaniel Tracy, a merchant of his acquaintance in Newburyport.

Elisabeth's grandmother, the former Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, wrote to her daughter, the Crown Princess Marie of Romania in 1911, saying, " The young Kostia is seized now with terror that she will be snatched away, as he says, before he has even made her acquaintance.

Alice was also an acquaintance of James Churchward, who wrote extensively about Mu ( Lemuria ), whose name came from the saga of Queen Moo.

Not long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony puffing his first cigarette in weeks.

Ordinary politeness may have militated against this opinion being stated so badly but anyone with a wide acquaintance in both groups and who has sat through the many round tables, workshops or panel discussions -- whatever they are called -- on this subject will recognize that the final, boiled down crux of the matter is education.

For example an acquaintance might knock on a bedroom door and ask the occupant, " Are you decent?

In my opinion these improve on acquaintance.

* Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe ( ISBN 0-8131-1728-3 ), by Donald R. Burleson, PhD, a longtime scholar on Lovecraft and acquaintance of S. T. Joshi, is probably the only book analyzing Lovecraft's literature from a deconstructionist standpoint.

'" He goes on to explain the " daemonic ": " Opium was the avenging daemon or alastor of Coleridge's life, his dark or fallen angel, his experiential acquaintance with Milton's Satan.

Anderson developed an acquaintance from 1950 with John Ford, which led to what has come to be regarded as one of the standard books on that director, Anderson's About John Ford ( 1983 ).

Soon he entered a monastery on Lake Como, and before 782 he had become a resident at the great Benedictine house of Monte Cassino, where he made the acquaintance of Charlemagne.

** This could be any position in which the speaker — whether an acknowledged expert on the subject, or an acquaintance of a person who experienced the matter in question — knows about the topic.

Songwriter Joe Melson, an acquaintance of Orbison's, tapped on his car window one day in Texas in 1958 and the two decided to try to write some songs together.

With such a short time frame he drew heavily on his own acquaintance in academia ; of the fifteen original professors, most came either from Indiana University or his alma mater Cornell.

In 1851, on a street in Seneca Falls, Anthony was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton by a mutual acquaintance, as well as fellow feminist Amelia Bloomer.

Taking off or tipping one's hat on meeting a social superior or a lady, or when greeting an acquaintance, was a normal polite civilian gesture from the 17th century until the 1960s.

To achieve this, he would convey ownership of his lands to an acquaintance, on the understanding that the ownership would be conveyed back on his return.

Since there was a bounty on Themistocles's head, this acquaintance devised a plan to safely convey Themistocles to the Persian king in the type of covered wagon that the King's concubines travelled in.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a parlor game based on the " six degrees of separation " concept, which posits that any two people on Earth are, on average, about six acquaintance links apart.

Arion is mentioned in Act 1, scene ii of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, where the Captain reassures Viola that her brother may still be alive after the shipwreck, for " like Arion on the dolphin's back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves.

Later that year, her writings on arson attacks in Frankfurt protesting the Vietnam War resulted in her developing an acquaintance with the perpetrators, most significantly Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin.

Shackleton used his acquaintance with the son to obtain an interview with Longstaff senior, with a view to obtaining a place on the expedition.

" She joined the literary circles of New York and Boston and made the acquaintance of local lights on the lecture circuit, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book whose anti-slavery message Leonowens had brought to the attention of the royal household.

Lee Streiff, an acquaintance of many members of the movement who went on to become one of its chroniclers, believed that the news media saddled the movement for the long term with a set of false images:

Darby and his acquaintance Sophia Stone, near Ruston, Louisiana on April 27, 1933.