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That was Rob Roy, who posed with Mrs. Coolidge for the portrait by Howard Chandler Christy.
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.
But still Mel Chandler was not completely convinced that men would really die for a four-syllable word, `` Garryowen ''.
Captain Chandler saw that it was building up strength.
So filled was Mel Chandler with the spirit of Garryowen that after Korea was over, he took on the job of writing the complete history of the regiment.
`` Of course, there was nothing you could do, but you still ought to be ashamed of yourself for letting it happen '', Mousie Chandler said to Linda Stuart.
She giggled during the ceremony, and Mousie Chandler, who was one of Linda's bridesmaids, said John glared black as death at her.
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 ).
The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
Vick, who saw minimal playing time in 2001, playing backup and learning the system under then-starting quarterback Chris Chandler, was designated starting quarterback for the 2002 season.
It is still not clear how far Orkney ’ s advance was planned only as a feint ; according to historian David Chandler it is probably more accurate to surmise that Marlborough launched Orkney in a serious probe with a view to sounding out the possibilities of the sector.
Charles Chandler Krulak was born in 1942 in Quantico, Virginia.
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.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, in The Attache: Second Series, published in 1844, reminisced about boys from King's College School in Windsor, Nova Scotia, playing " hurly on the long pond on the ice " when he was a student there, no later than 1810.
However, the largest strand was a series of bands that emerged from 1966 from the British blues scene, but influenced by folk, jazz and psychedelia, including Pink Floyd, Traffic, Soft Machine, Cream, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience ( led by an American, but initially produced and managed in Britain by Chas Chandler of The Animals ).
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.
The Raiders ' main offensive deep threat was wide receiver Cliff Branch ( 44 receptions, 858 yards, 7 touchdown ), while wide receiver Bob Chandler contributed 49 receptions for 786 yards and 10 touchdowns.
Chandler finished the game with 19 out of 35 completions for 219 yards and a touchdown, but was intercepted 3 times.
The film's overall structure was influenced by the detective fiction of Raymond Chandler.

Chandler and by
According to Senator Zachariah Chandler, he " disgraced himself and the Senate by making a drunken foolish speech.
Daniel Chandler critiques the transmission model by stating:
Arden's character clashed with the school's principal, Osgood Conklin ( played by Gale Gordon ), and nursed an unrequited crush on fellow teacher Philip Boynton ( played originally by future film star Jeff Chandler and, on television, by Robert Rockwell ).
Monica and Rachel are forced to switch apartments with Joey and Chandler after losing a bet during a quiz game, but manage to switch back by bribing them with Knicks season tickets and a one-minute kiss ( off-screen ) between the girls.
The seventh season mainly follows various antics by Monica and Chandler, who begin to plan their wedding and run into financial problems which are quickly fixed by Chandler ’ s secret funds.
Monica and Chandler apply to adopt a child and are chosen by Erica ( Anna Faris ).
Washington Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States | at the Signing of the United States Constitution, September 17, 1787, by Howard Chandler Christy, 1940.
Groucho's previous works regained popularity and were accompanied by new books of transcribed conversations by Richard J. Anobile and Charlotte Chandler.
Hawks re-teamed with the newlyweds in 1946 with The Big Sleep, based on the Philip Marlowe detective novel by Raymond Chandler.
Just months after wrapping the film, Bogart and Bacall were reunited for their second movie together, the film noir The Big Sleep, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, again with script help from William Faulkner.
According to the historian David P. Chandler, the leftist Issarak groups, aided by the Viet Minh, occupied a sixth of Cambodia's territory by 1952 ; and, on the eve of the Geneva Conference, they controlled as much as one half of the country.
The component with a period of about 435 days is identified with the 8 month wandering predicted by Euler and is now called the Chandler wobble after its discoverer.

Chandler and MacPhail
After Cincinnati Reds owner Warren Giles and Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley raised strong opposition to Frick, formerly the front runner, New York Yankees co-owner Larry MacPhail began to advocate for Chandler.
Branch Rickey charged Chandler with maintaining a double standard, however, when the commissioner took no action after seeing MacPhail with two known gamblers at a Yankees – Dodgers preseason exhibition in Havana, Cuba.
Chandler suspended Dressen for 30 days and levied $ 2, 000 fines against MacPhail and the Yankees.
The raids contributed to a public feud between MacPhail on one side and Durocher and Rickey on the other ; ultimately Commissioner of Baseball Albert B. Chandler would suspend Durocher for the entire season for " conduct detrimental to baseball ," suspend Dressen for 30 days for signing a Yankee contract while still an employee of the Dodgers, and fine both clubs and some of their employees.
When a newspaper column under Durocher's name accused MacPhail of allowing known gamblers to use his box seats at spring training games in Havana, Cuba, Commissioner of Baseball Happy Chandler initiated an investigation that resulted in Durocher's suspension for the entire ' 47 campaign.

Chandler and close
* Phoenix and its surrounding cites, including Scottsdale, Mesa, Glendale, Tempe, Avondale, Gilbert, Chandler, Surprise, and many others, are so close together that they are collectively known as " The Valley ".
Columbia University student Chandler Owen shared Randolph's intellectual interests ; he became an economist and close collaborator.
During the campaign, President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to the state to campaign for Barkley, and Chandler lost a close race.
This subsided and Chandler and Joey began to grow close and become best friends, as Joey's carefree lifestyle began to grow on Chandler.
He is best friends with Chandler, and Ross is a close second ( although Ross has been referred to as his best friend several times ).
In an episode where he sees how close Chandler and Monica are, he dreams of himself and Monica in the same way.
When Rachel and Joey prepare for their first night together, however, they realize they're too close as friends to make their relationship work-Rachel instinctively slapping Joey away when he tries to touch her as she suddenly finds herself unable to get past the fact that it's Joey touching her -, and they break up after Chandler reveals how natural it was for him and Monica to make the transition.
Rachel was close to Monica's family when she was in high school, so she already knew Monica's older brother Ross Geller ( David Schwimmer ), who harbors a long-unrequited love for her, and Ross ' best friend from college, Chandler Bing ( Matthew Perry ).
The two date for a while but have trouble when it comes to consummating their relationship, unable to get past the knowledge that it is their close friend touching them, and a conversation with Chandler about how easy it was for him and Monica to become more than friends helped Joey and Rachel realize that they were better off as they were.
Alison Dalzell, writing for the Edinburgh University Film Society notes, " Of all the adaptations of Chandler novels, this film comes as close as any to matching their stylish first person narrative and has the cinematic skill and bravado of direction to carry it off.
Jake Edge from LWN. net called this move a " last gasp attempt to build a community of users and developers to continue Chandler development down the road ", speculating that the lack of developers was caused by the close control of the project by OSAF, and this end of its funding could attract attention again.

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