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An oft-repeated story about Grace is that, in 1896, the Australian pace bowler Ernie Jones bowled a short-pitched delivery so close to his face that it appeared to go through the famous beard which made him so instantly recognisable.
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However, Schliemann's oft-repeated story of the treasure being carried by Sophia in her shawl was untrue.
In 1423, Despot Andronicus, who was in charge of the city, ceded it to the Republic of Venice with the hope that it could be protected from the Ottomans who were besieging the city ( there is no evidence to support the oft-repeated story that he sold the city to them ).
An oft-repeated, but probably incorrect story is that the name comes from indry, meaning " there " or " there it is.
There is also a persistent and oft-repeated story that the microphone for Ely was mounted too high for him to sing without tilting his head back excessively, resulting in his somewhat pinched and strangled sound through most of his vocal.
One oft-repeated " official " story states that Mel Blanc patterned the voices of both Daffy Duck and Sylvester the cat on Schlesinger.
One oft-repeated story featuring Captain Crunch goes as follows: Draper picked up a public phone, then proceeded to " phreak " his call around the world.
According to Green's biographer Charles Slack, the oft-repeated story that when she was recognized she stormed away vowing to treat the wounds herself is only half true.
In an oft-repeated story, Maury Klein and his plant manager, Brent Chambers, found the molds for the Marx model 333 and 1829 4-6-2 locomotives in a dilapidated Fisher-Price warehouse near Buffalo, New York in 1984.
An oft-repeated story ( also stated in the DVD commentary to The Robots of Death ) is that Leela's skimpy leather outfits were very popular with the " Dads ", which kept them watching the programme.
Other oft-repeated elements include reading a story to Molly, who sometimes either chooses a story to hear, gives Loonette a book and glasses ( often by holding the book and wearing reading glasses ), or turning on the lights for Loonette ; visits to various places in " Clowntown ", songs that emphasize the episode's lessons or themes, and a trip to Granny Garbanzo's garden.
According to Hetty's biographer Charles Slack, the oft-repeated story that when she was recognized, she stormed away vowing to treat the wounds herself is only half true.
Herzog recounts the heated arguments and sometimes violent altercations between them, including the oft-repeated story of Herzog threatening to shoot Kinski should he leave the production of Aguirre.
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The archive's relative permanence, combined with the ability to search messages by author, raised concerns about privacy and confirmed oft-repeated past admonishments that posters should be cautious in discussing themselves and others.
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It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.
Van Buren was not an orator, but his more important speeches show careful preparation and his opinions carried weight ; the oft-repeated charge that he refrained from declaring himself on crucial questions is hardly borne out by an examination of his senatorial career.
Accompanying biography read " The only part of him which gets tired is his tongue, and occasionally the oft-repeated lines have got muddled.
An oft-repeated, but false, etymology is that the United States military initially had two classes of aircraft: A-rigid and B-limp, hence " blimp ".
A longstanding, oft-repeated claim in the music industry and the mainstream press is that Styx were the first band to release four consecutive Triple-Platinum albums, signifying at least 3 million units sold.
However, Goldstone was not in operation at the time of Explorer I, and like many oft-repeated quotations it is incorrect.
Beneath the Turkish one is written in white, Ne Mutlu Türküm Diyene, an oft-repeated phrase of the Kemalist ideology meaning: Glad to be Turks.
" Bair also quotes ( as " oft-repeated criticism ") British scholar C. B. Radford who thought Beauvoir was " guilty of painting women in her own colors " because The Second Sex is:
In this character ( an over-zealous jobsworth essentially ), his oft-repeated mantra is " not on my patch, never ".
Τhe phrase Kýrie, eléison ( Greek: Κύριε ἐλέησον ) or one of its equivalents in other languages is one of the most oft-repeated phrases in Byzantine-Rite Eastern Christianity.
Blanco's response is an oft-repeated comedy moment:
The Aristocrats is perhaps the most famous dirty joke in the US and is certainly one of the best-known and most oft-repeated among comedians themselves.
It is to Jellinek that we owe the oft-repeated comparison of the Jewish temperament to that of women in its quickness of perception, versatility and sensibility.
This is not entirely fair: reports from his playing days do not criticise him, and he owes his notoriety to an oft-repeated anecdote which first appeared in an October 1892 issue of Pastime magazine, a weekly sporting journal that was edited by Nicholas Lane ' Pa ' Jackson, founder of the Corinthians Football Club and a committee member of the Football Association.
As concerns the Gold Rush-era population, there is no figure for how many men were on the Portage at any one time, only an oft-repeated number of 30, 000 as to the number of men that traversed the Lakes Route in the heat of the Gold Rush.
One of the most intelligible pieces of lyric in the whole song is the oft-repeated line " Standing in the garden, waiting for the sun to shine ," which is reminiscent of a line from an earlier Beatles tune, " I Am the Walrus ", which contains the line " Sitting in an English garden, waiting for the sun.
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The oft-repeated embracing gesture reinforces this sense of close companionship in the face of death.
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Comic Book Guy's oft-repeated catchphrase, " Worst episode ever ," first appeared on alt. tv. simpsons in an episode review and David X. Cohen decided to use this fan response to lampoon the passion and the fickleness of the fans.
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The Cantor gag that got the most mileage, however, was his oft-repeated wish for a son after five famous daughters.
The Aristocrats is perhaps the most famous dirty joke in the US due to its high shock value and is certainly one of the best-known and most oft-repeated among comedians themselves.
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Although these sounds and other grunts of exertion are most common, Ultraman also has one oft-repeated, and now extremely iconic phrase that he clearly utters:, which he shouts when jumping into the air to fly.
One oft-repeated anecdote from the campaign involved a campaign forum for which Brett was late.
Another oft-repeated Barry quote came in the aftermath of his electoral victory, in which he counseled those voters who opposed his mayoral campaign to " get over it.
" The oft-repeated phrase evolved, to the point which Isaacs changed his name to Barney Barnato.
The adjacent room at the rear of the house was Handel's composing room and probably contained Handel's clavichord, an instrument Handel used when composing, portable enough to be taken on journeys and which, according to an anecdote oft-repeated by his biographers, he secretly played as a child in the garret of his house, in defiance of his father.
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Concocted in a large wooden vat by the inseparable cave-dwelling buddies Lonesome Polecat ( he of the Fried Dog Indian tribe, later known as the Polecats, " the one tribe who have never been conquered ,") and Hairless Joe ( a hirsute, club-wielding, modern Cro-Magnon — who frequently made good on his oft-repeated threat, " Ah'll bash yore haid in!
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While these plants are not sold anywhere for culinary use, their visual similarity to bay leaves has led to the oft-repeated belief that bay leaves should be removed from food after cooking because they are poisonous.
Gloria Swanson immortalized DeMille with the oft-repeated line, " All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up " in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, wherein DeMille played himself.
The oft-repeated tale of Messalina's all-night sex competition with a prostitute comes from Book X of Pliny the Elder's Natural History.
The Lyadov works ' lack of purposeful harmonic rhythm ( a absence less noticeable in Baba-Yaga and Kikimora due to a superficial but still exhilarating bustle and whirl ) produces a sense of unreality and timelessness much like the telling of an oft-repeated and much loved fairy tale.
One of his oft-repeated stories was how he " discovered " Madonna and was amazed that she hand-wrote a three-page letter for a part that didn't even pay.
Silurian and Ordovician rocks are the most important in this county ; they are thrown into oft-repeated folds with their axes lying in a northeast-southwest direction.
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