Before he testified for 20 minutes, Stein, who lives at 3300 Lake Shore Dr., admitted to reporters that he had a wide acquaintance with crime syndicate hoodlums.

Hiss later testified to the same incident, causing many members to become convinced of the pair's acquaintance.

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.

* Truman Ventner ( Philip Sterling ) ( Seasons 1-5 ): Beatrice's second husband Truman was a judge, and an acquaintance of Beatrice's because her first husband occasionally testified in medical trials.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

However, this did not give them enough capital to publish the rules for Dungeons & Dragons and, worried that other companies would be able to publish similar projects first, the two convinced acquaintance Brian Blume to join TSR in December 1973 as an equal one-third partner.

His education, as was typical for the time, did not extend to a broad acquaintance with the pagan classics but rather progressed to mastery of the Vulgate Bible.

At what period he came to Italy is not certain ; according to some accounts he was summoned to Venice about 1430 to act as amanuensis to Francesco Barbaro, who appears to have already made his acquaintance ; according to others he did not visit Italy till the time of the Council of Florence ( 1438 – 1439 ).

It is an absolute reproduction of a real man '; and a contemporary critic commented, ' I recognized Skimpole instantaneously ; ... and so did every person whom I talked with about it who had ever had Leigh Hunt's acquaintance.

He did not receive it, and after living in retirement on his father's estate for nearly twelve years, he went out to the West Indies in 1794 on the strength of a slight acquaintance with Sir John Vaughan, the commander-in-chief, who made him his aide-de-camp and gave him a captaincy in the 17th foot.

Lenya and Weill did not meet properly until 1924 through a mutual acquaintance, the writer Georg Kaiser.

The article also belied many impressions the film gave of Van Doren: it portrayed him as a bachelor when he was actually engaged ; it suggested he had a fascination with the burgeoning, popular television quiz shows when in fact he did not even own a television set ; that the only reason he became even mildly acquainted with Twenty-One was because co-producer Al Freedman shared a mutual acquaintance with one of Van Doren's friends ; and, that he had been offered his job with The Today Show promptly after losing to Vivien Nearing when, in fact, NBC was not sure at first what to do with him, until he did work for Dave Garroway's Sunday afternoon cultural show, Wide Wide World, which then led to the invitation to join Today.

Former Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles remarked of the nomination that " It is a wonder that Grant did not pick up some old acquaintance, who was a stage driver or bartender, for the place ," and the political journal The Nation said " Mr Waite stands in the front-rank of second-rank lawyers.

In 1900 he made the acquaintance of W. B. Yeats ( of whom his mother highly approved ) and of George Moore ( of whom she did not ) and began to frequent Dublin literary circles.

Although PeeJee did reject him, she appreciated his changes, and he ultimately became a better person, even getting back together with an old girlfriend, Tamara, and becoming a casual acquaintance of the rest of the S * P gang.

Soon afterwards McInnes held a successful show of his paintings at the Athenaeum gallery in conjunction with F. R. Crozier, which was followed in 1911 by a journey to Europe, where he did much landscape painting and made acquaintance with the masterpieces of Rembrandt, Velasquez and Raeburn.

Not until the spring of 1792 did Bourrienne return to France ; at Paris he renewed his acquaintance with Bonaparte.

But he did not hold it long, having made the acquaintance of Count Schack, who commissioned a great number of copies for his collection.

On his arrival at Kingston, he was employed by the collector of customs, whose acquaintance he had formed on the voyage ; but this official soon found he could dispense with his services, which he did, without aiding him in obtaining another situation.

He lived with an acquaintance of his uncle ’ s and did landscape work for Alfred and Anna Erickson.

In 1891, both were shot by an acquaintance of Warner Norris, and Frank said he did not fully recuperate for three years.

But he did not stop there, he also hired, Ilias Kotsios former Panathinaikos and an old acquaintance of Italian football, Ibrahima Bakayoko for playing in the ranks of Messina and Livorno and returned from a good season at PAOK finished second behind Olympiakos.

Years later, after multiple failed relationships, Diana re-unites with an acquaintance under unusual circumstances.

His interest in astronomy grew stronger after he made the acquaintance of the English Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.

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.

On March 13, 1879, Russell married Maria Frances Ackley (; 1850 – 1938 ) after a few months ' acquaintance.

It was not till his eightieth year that he made his first acquaintance with Greek literature, though some think after examining his writings that he may have had a knowledge of Greek works for much of his life.

He was called Piazzi after his godfather, the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, whose acquaintance his father had made at Palermo when serving in the Mediterranean.

With this acquaintance Betty got to know an accomplished writer and poet with a sharp mind ( and a sad past — Betty's research had turned up a beau of Ms. Wyndham's who was killed in combat ), but after a while Ms. Wyndham herself died.

He made the acquaintance of the Spanish reformer Juan de Valdés at Rome, and got to know him as a theologian at Naples, being especially drawn to him through the appreciation expressed by Bernardino Ochino, and through their mutual friendship with the Lady Giulia Gonzaga, whose spiritual adviser he became after the death of Valdés.

Later, Robinson told Trouten's mother that she had run off with an acquaintance after stealing money from him.

He had proposed after an almost momentary acquaintance, allegedly in very abrupt and peculiar terms ; it seems to have been a successful marriage.

In 2005, the Romanian literary critic and translator Antoaneta Ralian, who was an acquaintance of Bellow's, argued that much of the negative portrayal was owed to a personal choice Bellow made ( after having divorced from Alexandra Bagdasar, his Romanian wife and Eliade disciple ).

Liberto was taken into custody shortly after an acquaintance drove him to a farmhouse on Long Island.

She voluntarily admits herself after a short consultation with a psychiatrist who is also an acquaintance of the family.

# It is intelligible to other Low German speakers after some acquaintance ;

His first acquaintance with chemistry was gained as laboratory assistant to an apothecary in Rouen ( 1777 – 1779 ), and after various vicissitudes he obtained an introduction to A. F.

On New Year's Day 1767 he accordingly left Rome, and after a short stay at Geneva ( where he made the acquaintance of Voltaire, and produced another operetta ) went to Paris.

An investigation into Dickinson's background indicated her involvement with Japanese organizations while living in San Francisco, as well as that after moving to New York, she had visited the Nippon Club and the Japanese Institute in New York, become a friend of the Japanese Consul General and was an acquaintance of Ichiro Yokoyama, the Japanese Naval Attaché in Washington, D. C. Further investigation of the Dickinsons ' activities from January to June 1942 ( the time frame in which the letters were sent ) revealed that the couple had visited those areas, staying in hotels near the cities in question.

An engineer, Phillips was an acquaintance of John P. Thompson, who sold his self-centering design to Phillips in 1935 after failing to interest manufacturers.

This lady was slightly older than Piron and not beautiful, but after twenty years ' acquaintance he married her in 1741.

That a chance remark of the latter caused the renewal of their old Cairo acquaintance, and that Ad Barbam, after showing his medical skill on Mandeville, urgently begged him to write his travels ; " and so at length, by his advice and help, monitu et adiutorio, was composed this treatise, of which I had certainly proposed to write nothing until at least I had reached my own parts in England ".

" Then he began singing, and the men, after listening a moment, joined in the chorus as if it were an old acquaintance, though they evidently had never heard it before.

The year after her father's death, Anne Marbury, aged 21, married an old acquaintance from Alford, William Hutchinson, who was a fabric merchant working at the time in London.