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W. F. Bryan suggests that certain kennings in Beowulf were selected sometimes for appropriateness and sometimes for ironic inappropriateness, but such a view would appear untenable unless it is denied that the language of Beowulf is formulaic.
One tempest was stirred up last March when Udall announced that an eight-and-a-half-foot bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan, sculpted by the late Gutzon Borglum, would be sent `` on indefinite loan '' to Salem, Illinois, Bryan's birthplace.
Bryan had strongly supported the war against Spain, but denounced the annexation of the Philippines as imperialism that would spoil America's innocence.
He was given the option of which base he would like to be stationed at in the United States and he requested the Bryan AFB in Bryan, Texas.
In the address, Bryan supported bimetallism or " free silver ", which he believed would bring the nation prosperity.
Although Bryan had decided on a strategy to gain the nomination to give a speech which would make him the logical candidate in the eyes of delegates he faced obstacles along the way.
Bryan considered this no loss at all ; the focus of the convention was on the party platform and the debate which would precede its adoption.
The platform would symbolize the repudiation of Cleveland and his policies after the insurgents ' long struggle, and Bryan was determined to close the debate on the platform.
Newspaper accounts of the convention leave little doubt but that, had a vote had been taken at that moment ( as many were shouting to do ), Bryan would have been nominated.
Bryan was urged by Senator Jones to allow it, but refused, stating that if his boom would not last overnight, it would never last until November.
Other delegations, seeing that Bryan would be nominated, also switched, securing the victory.
The only paper to predict, after Bryan gave his speech, that he would not be nominated was The Wall Street Journal, which stated, " Bryan has had his day ".
The Republican nominee was slow to realize the surge of support for Bryan after the nomination, stating his view that the silver sentiment would be gone in a month.
Stanley Jones, however, suggested that even if Bryan had never made it, he would still have been nominated.
Jones deemed the Democrats likely to nominate a candidate who would appeal to the far-left Populist Party, and Bryan had been elected to Congress with Populist support.
" Harpine suggested that, " by appealing in such an uncompromising way to the agrarian elements and to the West, Bryan neglected the national audience who would vote in the November election ".
Defenceman Bryan McCabe was also part of the deal, who would eventually be involved in a key transaction in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft.
Although many of these guest appearances would last for only one episode, some led to a permanent role on the show, as in the cases of Gordon Wharmby, Thora Hird, Jean Alexander, Stephen Lewis, Dora Bryan, Keith Clifford, Brian Murphy, Josephine Tewson, June Whitfield, Barbara Young, and Trevor Bannister.
The Populists had already nominated the ticket of Bryan and Charles A. Towne, a pro-silver Republican from Minnesota, with the tacit understanding that Towne would step aside if the Democrats nominated someone else.
Bryan considered the note too provocative and resigned in protest after failing to moderate it, to be replaced as Secretary of State by Lansing, who later said in his memoirs that following the tragedy he always had the " conviction that we would ultimately become the ally of Britain ".

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Most South Bryan residents, especially the large percentage of relative newcomers, would likely say they were " from Richmond Hill.
Prior to the event, Storm commended Bryan Danielson and say that he is the one person to make him come out of retirement.
However, in his review for the Sunday Times, Bryan Appleyard wrote, " Grand Theft Parsons is a delight, a comic tragedy that, though it does not say much about Parsons's art, says a great deal about the context in which it emerged ".
" You can never say that if it didn't happen then this wouldn't have happened, but I can't see what else than the BLRC would have brought it racing about ," said Peter Bryan.
Other characters in and out of the Gildersleeve orbit included Richard LeGrand as Peavey the druggist ( his dry, almost mumbled " Oh, now, I wouldn't say that " also became a familiar catch-phrase ), Arthur Q. Bryan ( making a name as sarcastic Doc Gamble on Fibber McGee & Molly ) as Floyd the barber, Ken Christy as police chief Gates, Shirley Mitchell as Leila Ransom, Bea Benaderet as another Gildersleeve paramour Eve Goodwin, and occasionally Gale Gordon ( Mayor LaTrivia on McGee ) as Rumson Bullard, a neighbour who served Gildersleeve the way Gildersleeve had once served Fibber McGee --- an equal for obnoxiousness.
The single " Secret of My Life " is still available for purchase but the album was scrapped and a newly recorded album, " Dark Light " was released in 2012 with Mortimer in place as the lead vocalist and a rock style the group say draws inspiration from artists including Bryan Adams and Kings of Leon.

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Bryan Cogman, story editor of the TV adaptation, said that only little backstory is presented on-screen to prevent the show from collapsing under the weight of the rich backstory.
However, Stephen Oppenheimer and Bryan Sykes argue that there was no population displacement, as the Anglo-Saxons had relatively little genetic impact on England.
Bryan had been a dark horse candidate with little support in the convention.
She had a tendency to back people of very little or no principle and their causes, such as businessman Frank Bennett, whom her husband had worked for, but resigned from his job, due to his unethical means ( he had been involved in a school land swindle that Peter was trying to stop ); also backing her Aunt Pauline's divorce ; and backing an embezzler named Bryan Fuller, who was also enamored of Aunt Pauline.
* Gip Willens ( Bryan Sweeney )-young boy who loves horses but has little idea how to look after them.
The situation focuses primarily on their futile attempts to run the farm efficiently through utilising the current staff consisting of Elgin ( David Ross ), Bryan ( Ivan Kaye ), Jed ( Peter Heppelthwaite ) and Imelda ( Ella Kenion ) – the farm ’ s loyal, if a little eccentric staff.
Well established names as well as new talents tried their fortune at the WPSF: a very young ABBA under the name Björn & Benny with uncredited backing vocals by their partners Agnetha and Anni-Frid performing the track " Santa Rosa " with little success ( later relegated to the B-side of their second single " He Is Your Brother "), Céline Dion ( Best Song Award in 1982 ), Bryan Adams ( Participating in 1982 ), Tina Charles, Eros Ramazzotti, Daniela Romo, Gianna Nannini, Demis Roussos, Bonnie Tyler, B. J.
Bryan Singer has referred to it as being " like a little movie director bible ".
When he was first introduced as an antagonist, Mania Entertainment writer Bryan Morton commented that Ishida is " annoying ", having found him to be little likeable to the point the viewers would probably hate him.

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They had lost twice with the radical Bryan, and were having no part of Hearst, whom they considered more radical than Bryan.
In 2003, while promoting X2, Hugh Jackman mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning that he planned to make a biopic of Bill Bixby, that he had been drawn to the project by Bryan Singer and that it was a project he loved.
Bryan had originally been invited by Sue Hicks to become an associate of the prosecution and Bryan had readily accepted, despite the fact he had not tried a case in thirty-six years.
His opponent in the general election was William Jennings Bryan, who had run for president twice before, in 1896 and in 1900 against William McKinley.
William Jennings Bryan, the nominee in 1896, 1900 and 1908, played a critical role in opposition to any candidate who had the support of " the financiers of Wall Street ".
In resolving economic policy issues, he had to manage the conflict between two wings of his party, the agrarian wing led by Bryan and the pro-business wing.
Wilson had tried to find a middle ground between conservative Republicans, led by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, and the powerful left wing of the Democratic party, led by William Jennings Bryan, who strenuously denounced private banks and Wall Street.
Another employee with whom Warner had troubles was studio producer Bryan Foy.
Known as an orator even then, Bryan had not always favored free silver out of conviction, stating in 1892 that he was for it because the people of Nebraska were for it.
Bryan had long planned to run for president.
His speeches impressed many ; even some of his opponents later conceded that Bryan was the most compelling speaker they had ever heard.
Albert Shaw, editor of The Review of Reviews, stated that after Bryan's nomination, many easterners professed not to have heard of him but: " If, indeed, they had not heard of Mr. Bryan before, they had failed to follow closely the course of American politics in the past eight years.
Bryan had been waiting outside the committee room when his rivals were seated by a 27 – 23 vote ; contemporary accounts state he was " somewhat surprised " at the result.

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