The truth is, however, that when Mel Chandler first reported to the regiment the only steed he had ever ridden was a swivel chair and the only weapon he had ever wielded was a pencil.

Chandler had been commissioned in the Medical Service Corps and was serving as a personnel officer for the Kansas City Medical Depot when he decided that if he was going to make the Army his career, he wanted to be in the fighting part of it.

It didn't take Captain Chandler long to realize that he had to carry a heavy load of tradition on his shoulders as commander of Troop Aj.

In the middle of the party Chandler looked up to see four smiling faces bearing down upon him, each beaming above the biggest, greenest shamrock he had ever seen.

So Mel Chandler set out to sell him on the spirit of Garryowen, just as he himself had been sold a short time before.

That finished the job that Captain Chandler and Lieutenant Carroll had begun.

Whenever New England liberalism is reminded of the dramatic confrontation of Parker and the fraternity on January 23, 1843 -- while it may defend the privilege of Chandler Robbins to demand that Parker leave the Association, while it may plead that Dr. N. L. Frothingham had every warrant for stating, `` The difference between Trinitarians and Unitarians is a difference in Christianity ; ;

Mousie Chandler had been to school with her someplace near Baltimore and tried to explain rather than defend her to the gang having lunch at Horne's.

`` Don't think Linda couldn't have got John back any time, if she'd tried '', Mousie Gordon, who had been Mousie Chandler, said between bites of a chicken sandwich at a luncheon table at Le Mont.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

In 1998, under recently acquired head coach Dan Reeves, quarterback Chris Chandler and running back Jamal Anderson the " Dirty Bird " Falcons had their greatest season to date.

The Brer Rabbit stories of Joel Chandler Harris had been family favourites and she later studied his Uncle Remus stories and illustrated them.

However, Pol Pot biographer David Chandler argues that the bombing " had the effect the Americans wanted – it broke the Communist encirclement of Phnom Penh ".

Furthermore, while Neuromancer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s narrator may have had an unusual " voice " for science fiction, much older examples can be found: Gibson's narrative voice, for example, resembles that of an updated Raymond Chandler, as in his novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 ).

His PI, Dan Fortune, was consistently involved in the same sort of David-and-Goliath stories that Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald wrote, but Collins took a sociological bent, exploring the meaning of his characters ' places in society and the impact society had on people.

Most of the writers whom he had developed at Ace went with him to DAW: Marion Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton, Philip K. Dick, John Brunner, A. Bertram Chandler, Kenneth Bulmer, Gordon R. Dickson, A. E. van Vogt, and Jack Vance.

( They had originally thought that there were two boys and one girl, but decided to keep the name Chandler, despite the baby turning out a girl.

Heather Duke soon steps into Heather Chandler's former role as clique leader and begins wearing a red scrunchie that had belonged to Chandler.

The rival BDS engineering group, who had to keep the project's real purpose a secret among themselves, fearing that if David Chandler, the head of the Keyboard Component team, found out about it he would use his influence to get the project killed, eventually came up with a much less expensive alternative.

Not only was the mid-season switch unusual, but Durocher had been accused of gambling in 1947 and subsequently suspended for the entire 1947 season by Baseball Commissioner Albert " Happy " Chandler.

Chandler understood this and expected the worst.

Since both Chandler and Curry came straight out of high school, neither was expected to make much of a contribution for several years, but they were seen as potential franchise players.

Chandler thoroughly admired Bogart's performance: " Bogart can be tough without a gun.

This type of crime-fighter fell out of fashion in the 1940s as a new breed of tough, " hard boiled " professional private detectives based on the novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and an ensuing slew of imitators were adapted to film.

In September 2010, Kentucky. com reported that Chandler was one of several “ moderate Democrats facing tough re-election bids who are bucking the Obama administration and pushing to extend tax cuts at every income level .”

Orrin had recently come out to nearby Bay City ( a fictional tough town that appears in many Chandler novels, modeled on Santa Monica ) to work as an engineer for the Cal-Western Aircraft Company, but has in recent months stopped writing to Orfamay and their mother.

In a letter to D. J. Ibberson of 19 April 1951, Chandler noted among other things that Marlowe is 38 years old and was born in Santa Rosa, California.

His full brother, Robert Chandler, died when he fell from a cherry tree when he was 13 years old.

A long-running gag depicted Joey and Chandler occasionally fighting with each other like an old married couple, with Chandler often assuming the wife's role — this eventually ended when Chandler became permanently paired with Monica.

The three stars were 19 year old Victoria Lambert as the 13 year old Marcie, Ben Chandler as Tom and Kate Winslet, in her first major professional acting role, as Reet.

When the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion opened its doors on December 6, 1964, the twenty-eight year old Zubin Mehta led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a program that included violinist Jascha Heifetz and performances of Strauss ' Fan Fare and Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Major.

The pilot introduces six friends who live and work in New York City ; Monica ( Courteney Cox ) sleeps with a wine seller after their first date but is horrified to discover he tricked her into bed ; her brother Ross ( David Schwimmer ) is depressed after his lesbian ex-wife moves her things out of their apartment ; Monica's old schoolfriend Rachel ( Jennifer Aniston ) moves in with Monica after running out of her wedding ; and their friends, Joey, Chandler and Phoebe ( Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow ) offer them each support and advice.

A famous running gag suggests they are like an old married couple when they argue, with Chandler usually assuming the wife's role.

Monica helps Chandler secure a job in advertising through an old college friend of hers.

He is shown to have had some old memories such as a band with Chandler called Way / No Way and blamed him when he was caught smoking marijuana in college.

The rest of the main cast included Robert Walden and Linda Kelsey, who played general-assignment reporters Joe Rossi and Billie Newman, respectively ( Kelsey joined the show in the fourth episode, replacing Rebecca Balding, who had portrayed reporter Carla Mardigian during the show's first three episodes ); Mason Adams, who played managing editor Charles Hume, an old friend of Lou's who had convinced him to move from Minneapolis to Los Angeles ; Jack Bannon, who played assistant city editor Art Donovan ; Daryl Anderson, who played photographer Dennis Price, usually referred to as " Animal "; and Nancy Marchand, who played the widowed, patrician publisher, Margaret Pynchon, a character loosely based on real life newspaper publishers Dorothy Chandler of the Los Angeles Times and Katharine Graham of The Washington Post.

The Cleveland School ( the old Chandler Grammar School ) closed in 1968, and it became the South Annex to Chandler High School.

The Packers ' regular placekicker, Don Chandler, was an All-Pro punter with the New York Giants but Vince Lombardi brought Chandler in from his old team to serve exclusively as a kicker after Paul Hornung, who set the NFL single-season scoring record with 176 points in 12 games in 1960, was suspended for gambling in 1963 and suffered a sharp decline in accuracy in 1964.

He was accused of killing a rich old man named Chandler because he was in love with his beautiful young wife Coral ( Lizabeth Scott ).

The younger Breathitt, thirty-eight years old when the campaign began, adapted well to the relatively new medium of television, while the aging Chandler did not.

As Little Chandler thinks about his old friend and the success that has come to him, he begins to reflect upon his own life.

Chandler and Kee travel to Tibet, where Chandler is apparently swindled by an old amulet seller, who is revealed as the High Priest of the temple where the dagger is kept hidden and, subsequently, Kee's father ( Chandler calls him " Monty Hall " or " Monty ").