However, when Rifkind was knocked out of the leadership race of the Conservatives, Blunt returned to the whips ' office and wrote to all Party members in his constituency asking for them to rank the remaining contenders in order of preference so he could best represent his constituents.

While in Egypt, Lady Gregory had an affair with the English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, during which she wrote a series of love poems, A Woman's Sonnets.

His association with the poet and journalist Bruce Blunt led to the popular Christmas anthem " Bethlehem Down ", which the pair wrote in 1927 to raise money for their Christmas drinking.

In July 1930 a fortnight spent with Blunt in Hampshire brought a brief creative revival ; Heseltine composed " The Fox " to Blunt's lyrics, and on his return to London he wrote " The Fairest May " for voice and string quartet.

He wrote a play " Blunt Speaking " in which he performed at the Minerva Theatre ( part of the Chichester Festival Theatre ) between 23 July-10 August 2002.

In 2009, Momentum Pictures and Sony Pictures released The Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt, for which Fellowes wrote the original screenplay.

Although they were both homosexual and even shared a house together, Blunt claims that there was “ nothing sexual ” in their relationship.

The Englishmen laugh at him and retrieve their money, but leave Blunt “ to be cozened ” ( cheated ).

The clubs first two American import signings were Dave Lutz and Don Nolan, though both left and were subsequently replaced in the close season by two more American ’ s in Micah Blunt and his stepbrother “ Truck ” Tunson.

" A Los Angeles Business Journal feature said, “ Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick has emerged as a central voice in the ongoing debate over how the City handles its contracts .” In a May, 2004 feature article, Los Angeles Magazine states, “ Where others couch and evade, she is Ms. Blunt .”

United States Senator Roy Blunt was born in Niangua.

Blunt is a city in Hughes County, South Dakota, United States.

Many US States classify Blunt Wraps as tobacco and a license is required to sell them and collect tax.

Robin Carnahan's bid to follow her mother as a United States Senator failed, however, when she was defeated by Republican U. S. Representative Roy Blunt in the 2010 election to succeed Missouri's senior Senator, Republican Kit Bond.

Roy D. Blunt ( born January 10, 1950 ) is the junior United States Senator from Missouri.

Blunt served as the United States Representative from from 1997 to 2011.

Looking on are Sen. Susan Collins ( R-ME ), Chairwoman of the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs | Senate Homeland Security Committee, and from left: Rep. Roy Blunt ( R-MO ), Sen. Barack Obama ( D-IL ), Sen. Tom Carper ( D-DE ), Rep. Jeb Hensarling ( R-TX ), and Rep. Henry Waxman ( D-CA ).

Before his election as governor, Blunt served ten years in the United States Navy, was elected to serve in the Missouri General Assembly in 1998 and as Missouri's Secretary of State in 2000.

After graduating from Jefferson City High School in Jefferson City, Missouri, Blunt was accepted into the United States Naval Academy where he received a bachelor's degree in history in 1993.

As an officer in the United States Navy, Blunt went on to serve as an engineering officer aboard the USS Jack Williams and as the navigator and administrative officer on the USS Peterson.

Blunt ’ s leadership at one of the United States ' top automobile and component producing states is a major reason he was chosen to lead the policy initiatives of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler.

Blunt has been critical of cuts to education funding arguing that they will erode Missouri ’ s future.

The reality show was hosted by Nikos Aliagas and featured guest stars such as Beyoncé, Céline Dion, Madonna, Tina Arena, Nelly Furtado, Tokio Hotel, Andrea Bocelli, Charles Aznavour, Hélène Ségara, Peter Kingsbery, Phil Collins, Laura Pausini, Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, Tina Turner, Mariah Carey, Lara Fabian, Rihanna, Shania Twain, Moby, Avril Lavigne, Anastacia, Alicia Keys, Craig David, 50 Cent, will. i. am, James Blunt, Diddy, Sting, David Guetta, Lenny Kravitz, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Liza Minnelli, Johnny Hallyday, Paul Anka, Lionel Richie, Alanis Morissette, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Bee Gees, and Ricky Martin.

Straight also told investigators that the Apostle John Peter Astbury had been recruited for Soviet intelligence by either Blunt or Burgess.

In accordance with Pentagon regulations and the Missouri Constitution, if Blunt was called for military duty while Governor, he would have been required to either transfer his gubernatorial powers to Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder, or resign from the Naval Reserve.

In 1963, Philby was revealed to be a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, the other members of which were Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.

The character Victor Maskell seems to be a combination of Anthony Blunt and poet Louis MacNeice.

Afraid that Blunt would be able to attack his rear, and facing Herron to the north, Hindman chose instead to set up a defensive position atop a line of low hills near Prairie Grove, Arkansas.

The band originally formed in the West Midlands by bassist Martin Blunt, who recruited fellow West Midlanders ; Rob Collins ( keyboards ), Jon Brookes ( drums ), plus singer / guitarist Baz Ketley, who left the band to be replaced by Tim Burgess and Jon Day ( Jonathan Baker ) ( guitar ).

Chick Evans ' long friendship with Chicago tax attorney, Carleton Blunt, proved to be the catalyst for launching the Evans Scholars Foundation.

Like Guy Burgess, Blunt was known to be homosexual, which was a criminal activity at that time in Britain.

The Conservative party, who following the elections had the most councillors in the country ( ahead of Labour by 601 ), extended its lead over the Labour party by 1, 399 councillors, however their celebrations were tempered by the resignation of Conservative front bencher Crispin Blunt, who described the party leader, Ian Duncan Smith as a " handicap " and called for him to be replaced.

Blunt tip tweezers have a rounded end which can be used when a pointed object may get entangled, when manipulating cotton swabs, for example.

" Blunt Force Trauma " is about when someone or something comes up behind you when you least expect it, " it could be a situation in your life, it could be a person you know with a beer bottle ".

With the news that former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt would not be seeking re-election in 2008, Hulshof announced on January 29 that he would run for Governor.

The third major plot of the play deals with the provincial Blunt, who becomes convinced that a girl has fallen in love with him but is humiliated when she turns out to be a prostitute and a thief.

Blunt then attempts to rape her based on his new contempt for women (“ be revenged on one whore for the sins of another ”).

Frederick fears that she might be a lady of some worth and asks Blunt to wait.

Streep and Hathaway received most of the critical attention initially, but Blunt proved to be equally memorable, with Entertainment Weekly naming her the Best Female Scene-Stealer in their end-of-summer special issue.

Blunt also created the Quality Jobs program, an initiative that continues to be expanded by his successor, Governor Jay Nixon.

In the area of elementary and secondary education, Blunt has proposed that school districts be required to spend at least 65 % of their budgets on student instruction.

After the proposal was criticized, Blunt suggested that the 65 % threshold should be a goal, rather than a mandate.

However the dances had been recorded from two of the last surviving members of the 19th century team, brothers William and John Walton, in such detail by Janet Blunt and others that they could still be performed by a newly-formed revival team led by Bryan Sheppard and Tim Radford.

On 26 July 2010 it was announced that the council would be abolished ; Actors and professionals including James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Pete Postlethwaite, Damian Lewis, Timothy Spall, Daniel Barber and Ian Holm campaigned against the Council's abolition.

In the writings of the occupational theorists, the Kurmis and the Jats came to be extolled for their yeoman-like purposefulness, tirelessness, and thrift, all of which, according to writers such as, Crooke, Ibbetson, and Blunt had been largely abandoned by the landed elite.

He tells MI6 about this, but Alan Blunt refuses to follow up on it as he believes it would be politically unwise if the press ever found out that MI6 was investigating Cray.