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At this hangout of the wealthy elite, George Gershwin often played impromptu piano for wealthy guests such as Reggie Vanderbilt, Harry Payne Whitney, or Walter Chrysler, and celebrities such as Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Pola Negri, Al Jolson, Jeanne Eagels, Gloria Swanson, John Gilbert, Clara Bow, Hope Hampton, Irving Berlin, John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Leatrice Joy and Rudolph Valentino, as well as socialites such as Gloria Morgan and her sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness.
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At the time, Stillman's choices for socializing were non-public cocktail parties, or " guys ' beer-drinking hangout " bars that women usually did not visit ; he recalled that " there was no public place for people between, say, twenty-three to thirty-seven years old, to meet.
" At this point the Biker Boyz get their own hangout and begin hustling several races, but when they go to the wrong part of town and Stuntman successfully hustles the nephew of a respected biker, Stuntman and Primo are ambushed at the next party.
At and wealthy
At the end of the 18th century it became fashionable for wealthy people to spend the Summer by the sea.
At the urging of Congress, however, he ultimately accepted the payment, to avoid setting a precedent whereby the presidency would be perceived as limited only to independently wealthy individuals who could serve without any salary.
At some point in the next two years they moved back to England, by 1873 settling into The Glen, a large Victorian house in Blundellsands, a seaport in Lancashire, north-west England, which was developing into a wealthy suburb of Liverpool.
At their peak, 350, 000 Aztec presided over a wealthy tribute-empire comprising 10 million people, almost half of Mexico's estimated population of 24 million.
At the same time, he privately studied Polynesian culture and history, consulting what was then the world's largest private collection of books and papers on Polynesia, owned by Bjarne Kropelien, a wealthy wine merchant in Oslo.
At the time, Barmen was an expanding industrial metropole and Frederick was the eldest son of a wealthy German cotton manufacturer.
At dinner at the Birlings ' home in 1912, Arthur Birling, a wealthy mill owner and local politician, and his family are celebrating the engagement of daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, son of a competitor of Birling's.
At the height of her success and after separating from her husband in 1770, she discovered that she could sustain herself financially by finding wealthy benefactors, establishing herself as a courtesan to them.
At popular assemblies, particularly during the pilgrimage to the Temple Mount, they stabbed their enemies ( Romans or Roman sympathizers, Herodians, and wealthy Jews comfortable with Roman rule ), lamenting ostentatiously after the deed to blend into the crowd to escape detection.
At this time, she was almost certainly accepting favours from a few wealthy men, and was regarded by many as a courtesan.
At the end, with the family now wealthy and playing the parts of exaggerated polite-society characters, " No Place Like Home "" plays again, in a more sincere-sounding melody.
At the sad little town Christmas dance, Jacy is invited by unsavory Lester Marlow ( Quaid ) to a naked indoor pool party at the home of Bobby Sheen ( Gary Brockette ), a wealthy boy who seems to offer better prospects than Duane.
At its most extreme definition, SRA involved a worldwide conspiracy involving the wealthy and powerful of the world elite in which children were abducted or bred for sacrifices, pornography and prostitution.
At the Dubai Motor Show in December, the " Unimog U 500 Black Edition " premiered as an offering to wealthy desert-dwellers.
At age 17 Anne married Major John Pryor, a wealthy Richmond resident in his early 60s.
At that point, two wealthy Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania businessmen, Hay Walker, Jr., and Thomas H. Given, financed the formation of National Electric Signaling Company ( NESCO ) to carry on Fessenden's research.
At the same time, the company realized they needed a grand tourer model that could appeal to wealthy customers.
At the start of 19th century Wakefield was a wealthy market town and inland port trading in wool and corn.
At the end of his long and heroic career, he is wealthy, famous, and contented ; a loving and beloved, indulgent husband and father ; and finally free of the insecurities and self-loathing that had driven him throughout his life.
At this point, he has a slick façade, is part of Hollywood society and hobnobs comfortably with the wealthy and famous.
At the Crown Prince's request, wealthy businessman George Averoff agreed to pay approximately one million drachmas to fund the restoration of the Panathinaiko Stadium in white marble.
At length, continues South, the Church-History came forth with its 166 dedications to wealthy and noble friends ; and with this huge volume under one arm, and his wife ( said to be little of stature ) on the other, he ran up and down the streets of London, seeking at the houses of his patrons invitations to dinner, to be repaid by his dull jests at table.
At least 25 coup attempts took place during his presidency, mostly led by wealthy conservative military officers.
At and elite
At the age of 25, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society, for an essay on street lighting and in recognition of his earlier research.
At the front there said to be approximately 300 elite knights, commanded by general Clermont and accompanied by German mercenary pikemen.
At the top were the elite Europeans who owned plantations.
At the forefront of opposition among the educated elite was L ' Union Patriotique ,, which established ties with opponents of the occupation in the US itself, in particular the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ).
At the same time, the PDPA imprisoned, tortured or murdered thousands of members of the traditional elite, the religious establishment, and the intelligentsia.
At the elite level, competitors run down a runway ( usually coated with the same rubberized surface as running tracks, crumb rubber also vulcanized rubber ) and jump as far as they can from a wooden board 20 cm or 8 inches wide that is built flush with the runway into a pit filled with finely ground gravel or sand.
At that point, Colonel Ulrich Wegener, Genscher's senior aide and later the founder of the elite German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9, said " I'm sure this will blow the whole affair!
At all times the President travels with an armed security detail which is provided by the SDU ( Special Detective Unit-an elite wing of the Irish police force ).
At five past midnight ( CET ) on 18 October, the plane was stormed in a seven-minute assault by the GSG 9, an elite unit of the German federal police.
At the peak of its power Sparta subdued many of the key Greek states and even managed to overpower the elite Athenian navy.
At the time China faced the Qiang tribes in the northwest, and thus Dong Zhuo controlled a large army with elite training.
At the elite and professional level, courses must be looped and each lap must be between 1750 m and 2000 m in length.
At first the ruling elite was primarily Norse, but it was rapidly Slavicized by the mid-century.
At the beginning of the story, O's lover, René, brings her to the château of Roissy, where she is trained to serve the men of an elite group.
At this early stage there is no evidence that the Danish Church was able to create a stable administration that Harald could use to exercise more effective control over his kingdom, but it may have contributed to the development of a centralising political and religious ideology among the social elite which sustained and enhanced an increasingly powerful kingship.
At the beginning of the dynasty, government posts were disproportionately held by two elite social groups: a founding elite who had ties with the founding emperor and a semi-hereditary professional elite who used long-held clan status, family connections and marriage alliances to secure appointments.
At 10, he and his brother were taken to Saint Petersburg to study at the elite Peterschule ( St. Peter's School ).
* At Phrada, in Drangiana, Philotas, Parmenion's son and commander of the elite Macedonian companion cavalry, is implicated in an alleged plot against Alexander's life.
At the main ford near Oldbridge, William's infantry led by the elite Dutch Blue Guards forced their way across the river, using their superior firepower to slowly drive back the enemy foot-soldiers, but were pinned down when the Jacobite cavalry counter-attacked.
At the battle of Baideng, he was ambushed reputedly by 300, 000 elite Xiongnu cavalry.
At the international elite level of competition, the composition of the routine is decided by the gymnast and his or her coaches.
At Natchez and other cities, although the local newspapers and veterans played a role in the maintenance of the Lost Cause, elite women particularly were important, especially in establishing memorials, such as the Civil War Monument dedicated on Memorial Day 1890, and cemeteries.
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