* The second son, Asa G. Candler, Jr. ( 1880 – 1953 ), eccentric, alcoholic and depressed, became a real-estate developer, opening the Briarcliff Hotel.

Among his most recognized television roles are eccentric billionaire Jimmy James on the sitcom NewsRadio and as the voice of depressed Army barber Bill Dauterive and Hank Hill's skirt-chasing boss Buck Strickland on the animated television series King of the Hill ( Root originally auditioned for the role of Dale ).

usually, this is most exasperating to men, who expect every woman to verify their preconceived notions concerning her sex, and when she does not, immediately condemn her as eccentric and unwomanly.

Two particular examples are Lillian, an eccentric ( and very nearsighted ) old lady with odd quirks, and Greta, a muscle bound woman who was hired to look after the pets during New Years.

But from that moment on, the ever eccentric Mühlegg insisted on taking a flask of holy water with him at all times, and trusting only his Portuguese cleaning woman / chaperone Justina Agostino.

It is also the site of the Green Mansion, the estate of " Colonel " Edward Howland Robinson Green, a colorful character in his own right, who was son of the even more colorful and wildly eccentric Hetty Green, said to be the richest woman in the world in her time, who is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the " world's greatest miser ".

Elisabeth was an emotionally complex woman, and perhaps due to the melancholy and eccentricity that was considered a given characteristic of her Wittelsbach lineage ( the best-known member of the family being her favorite cousin, the eccentric Ludwig II of Bavaria ), she was interested in the treatment of the mentally ill.

The novel deals with the fate of an eccentric family, the Moscus, who are haunted by the ghost of a murdered young woman, known as Christina.

In a profile of Lady Bird Johnson, Time magazine described Lady Bird's mother as " a tall, eccentric woman from an old and aristocratic Alabama family, liked to wear long white dresses and heavy veils and who scandalized people for miles around by entertaining Negroes in her home, and once even started to write a book about Negro religious practices, called Bio Baptism.

The typical music hall comedian was a man or woman, usually dressed ' in character ' to suit the subject of the song, or sometimes attired in absurd and eccentric style.

He is told of a few residents that have caused problems with in the past, including: Mrs. Tezuka, an eccentric woman who was sent to a mental hospital after a miscarriage ; Yoshio Fujiyama, also known as " Little Yo ", a strong but mentally disabled man who was once accused of child molestation ; and Yoshikawa, an abusive alcoholic.

In the film, Griffith played an eccentric woman who kills her husband and heads to Hollywood to become a movie star.

Harriet Douglas was described as an independent and eccentric woman, who had her marriage bed sawed in half and used as two couches after an acrimonious divorce.

Holmes is consulted by a young lady, a companion to an older woman, about the eccentric behavior of a young man she has met.

A dedicated third grade teacher, Mrs. Brinks is an eccentric middle-aged woman with a rather masculine voice ( rather, sounding more like a man imitating a woman ) and large manly hands.

An eccentric woman from a wealthy family, from whom she's estranged.

In Desperate Remedies a young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry.

In addition, the series features original skits, such as " Selina: She Grows on You ", a segment which features an eccentric gardener for a wealthy woman, and her zany and original ways of keeping her garden up to scratch.

The book explains that the picture was painted by an eccentric artist depicting his young wife, but that he grew obsessed with his painting to the point that he paid no attention to the woman he was painting.

* Avdotya ( Evdoksia ) Nikitishna Kukshina – An emancipated woman who lives in the town of X. Kukshina is independent but rather eccentric and incapable as a proto-feminist despite her potential.

Due to the series ' early cancellation, very little attention was given to Simmons ' character, but she differed from her predecessor in that she was not portrayed as an eccentric recluse, but rather as a high-spirited passionate woman with a strong devotion to her family.

Kozak has written four novels: Dating Dead Men ( 2004 ), Dating Is Murder: A Novel ( 2005 ), Dead Ex ( 2007 ), and A Date You Can't Refuse ( 2008 ) all of which feature greeting card designer and amateur sleuth Wollie Shelley, a woman with very eccentric friends and family.

" Mrs Pendarves was a very perceptive woman, " She judged everything and everybody for herself ; and, while ridiculing all empty-headed or vain insipidity, whether fashionable or eccentric, was always ready to applaud the unusual, if sincere and worthy.

Fiderer was opinionated, strong willed, eccentric and in any case very much her own woman ; Charlie knew he had the perfect fit to replace Mrs. Landingham.

He spent a good deal of his time in the U. S. during this period, continuing to release singles and albums which, while less popular to the masses, were full of unusual lyrics and sometimes eccentric musical experiments.

On the way to investigate Yosil's cabin, where the eccentric scientist spent much of his time, they both are made aware of an attack on Albert's home.

Founded by James Augustus Hicky, a highly eccentric Irishman who had previously spent two years in Jail for debt.

The poet W. H. Auden spent three years teaching English at the Downs School ( 1932 – 1935 ; he returned for the summer term in 1937 when the English master was away ) He was loved as one of the more extravagant and eccentric teachers, who supplemented his teaching of English by teaching pupils how to make spitballs stick to the ceiling.

In 1887 or 1888 he spent a period in Paris, where he met Sâr Joséphin Péladan, an eccentric mystic and occultist, who defined himself as a modern Rosicrucian, descended from the Persian Magi.

As a child, Abraham spent much time in the shop of his maternal uncle, Moses Polock ( May 14, 1817 — August 16, 1903 ), a well-known and somewhat eccentric antiquarian bookseller.

Among the first venues for what would soon be called " Off-Off-Broadway " ( a term supposedly coined by critic Jerry Tallmer of the Village Voice ) were coffeehouses in Greenwich Village, in particular, the Caffe Cino at 31 Cornelia Street, operated by the eccentric Joe Cino, who early on took a liking to actors and playwrights and agreed to let them stage plays there without bothering to read the plays first, or to even find out much about the content.

After much suffering, Emily Gosse died on 9 February 1857, entrusting her husband with their son's salvation and thus perhaps driving Gosse into " strange severities and eccentric prohibitions.

Several years younger than most of his classmates, he was viewed as eccentric and arrogant, and he often expressed dissatisfaction with much of the education, which he found boring.

Also, Mercury's fairly eccentric orbit makes it much easier to detect the perihelion shift than is the case for the nearly circular orbits of Venus and Earth.

In 2003, the bicentenary of Berlioz's birth, his achievements and status are much more widely recognised, and his music is viewed as both serious and original, rather than an eccentric novelty.

The Fallohides, the least numerous, were an adventurous people that preferred to live in the woods under the Misty Mountains and were said to be taller and fairer ( all of these traits were much rarer in later days, and it has been implied that wealthy, eccentric families that tended to lead other hobbits politically, like the Tooks and Brandybucks, were of Fallohide descent ).

For an object in an eccentric orbit orbiting a much larger body, the length of the orbit decreases with eccentricity, and is given at ellipse.

Beckford's fame, however, rests as much upon his eccentric extravagances as a builder and collector as upon his literary efforts.

His first work was Der Montanismus u. die christliche Kirche des 2ten Jahrhunderts ( 1841 ), in which he pointed out for the first time that Montanism was much more than an isolated outbreak of eccentric fanaticism in the early church, though he himself introduced fresh misconceptions by connecting it with Ebionitism as he conceived the latter.

Helium-Neon gas lasers had a shorter-wavelength laser that created a much smaller spot on the disc, leading to better tracking of imperfectly manufactured discs, such as an off-center hole punch or slightly eccentric tracks.

( 1758 – 1831 ) was a quiet and eccentric Sōtō Zen Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit.

For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, thanks largely to the popularity of Brief Lives, Aubrey was regarded as little more than an entertaining but quirky, eccentric and credulous gossip.

The work did much to bolster Aubrey's posthumous reputation as a superstitious and credulous eccentric.

The popularist " Photographic News " saw it as the result ... " of a diseased imagination, of which much has been fostered by the ravings of a few lunatics ... unacademic ... and eccentric ".

In the past, it was famed for its anachronistic, eccentric and sometimes infuriating business practices, so much that they made it a tourist attraction.

As Dunstan develops into an eccentric teacher, Boy tries to educate Leola into a higher social standing without much success.

In keeping with the Alphabet mythology, the band's shows have instead featured behaviour which has been described as " therapeutic, surrealist pantomime ", compared to absurdist theatre, and labelled " not so much theatrically eccentric as completely fucking neurotic ".

Highly eccentric in its time, it was much loved by French critics.

This makes the Tripods themselves seem much more like mecha than purely eccentric vehicles.

Over time it has gained much cachet in Australian society, famed for its wealthy and often eccentric residents.

Places of interest in the Barbican include the National Marine Aquarium ( technically in Coxside ) which is one of the larger aquariums in Britain and has one of the deepest tanks in Europe ; the Elizabethan House, an old house built in the early 16th century, now used as a museum ; the Mayflower Steps near where the Pilgrims finally set off in the Mayflower for the New World in 1620, which is described in the nearby visitors ' centre ; and the studio gallery of the late painter and eccentric Robert Lenkiewicz, who lived and worked on the Barbican for many years deriving much of his inspiration and income from the local community.

He meets and befriends Archer, an eccentric and intellectual inmate intent on using non-violent means to cause as much of a nuisance to the staff as possible, and is informed his reputation is already known ; Banks, the current " Daddy " ( the inmate who “ runs “ the Borstal ) is seeking Carlin for a fight.

Järegård was since 1962 an actor in Sweden's prominent Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he came to perform a number of much celebrated parts: his eccentric Hitler in Schweik in the Second World War by Bertolt Brecht ( 1963 ), Estragon in the legendary 1966 Dramaten-staging of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Thersites in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida 1967, Orgon in Molière's Tartuffe 1971, Hjalmar Ekdahl in Ingmar Bergman's 1972 production of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Nero in Jean Racine's Britannicus ( 1974 ), a spot-on portrayal of August Strindberg in play Tribadernas natt ( The Night of the Tribades ) by Per Olov Enquist, the title role in Richard III by Shakespeare ( 1980 ) and the extremely creepy-and slightly perverted-boss Sven in VD (" CEO ") by Stig Larsson in 1985, among others.

At the beginning of their marriage the two are very much in love with Hope believing that John is the ideal man for her owing to his rather eccentric but empathetic character and strong intelligence.