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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.

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`` 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.
Joel Chandler Harris's ' Br ' er Rabbit ' of the Uncle Remus stories is said to be patterned after High John the Conqueror.
Ethan said, " We wanted something that would generate a certain narrative feeling – like a modern Raymond Chandler story, and that's why it had to be set in Los Angeles ... We wanted to have a narrative flow, a story that moves like a Chandler book through different parts of town and different social classes ".
The last Hendrix / Monkees concert was performed at Flushing Meadows in Queens, New York – Chas Chandler later said that it was all a publicity stunt.
" Later, in episode 105, " The One With the Thanksgiving Flashbacks ," one of said flashbacks shows Chandler visiting Ross and Monica's house while on holiday break from college.
James Chandler, also in 1998, pointed out that " If To Autumn is his greatest piece of writing, as has so often been said, it is because in it he arguably set himself the most ambitious challenge of his brief career and managed to meet it.
The last words that were said by Chandler who says " where " referring to where to get coffee which is ironic because they have spent the last 10 years getting coffee at Central Perk.
His successor, Happy Chandler, said, " For twenty-four years Judge Landis wouldn't let a black man play.
In his autobiography, Chandler said his mother leaving when them was his earliest memory.
Hailing from Morganfield, only a short distance from Chandler's hometown of Corydon, Clements later said that if Chandler had asked him first, he might have managed Chandler's campaign instead of Rhea's.
( An invoice showing that carpeting for the entire first floor of the capitol had cost one-tenth that amount did not stop Chandler from repeating the claim, which he said " didn't hurt anybody, and people liked to hear it ".
Chandler said the establishment of the school was his proudest achievement as governor.
Chandler said Stimson told him he would rather have a senator than a captain, after which Chandler resigned his commission.
Chandler said that he and Wallace were unable to come to an agreement regarding their positions on racial matters.
Commenting on the controversy the next day, Chandler said " I was raised in a small town in Western Kentucky.
Chandler reportedly told the paper " I said most of the Zimbabweans were niggers and they are niggers.
The society, Chandler said, would “ prove a powerful and healthy stimulus to original research, … would awaken and develop much talent now wasting in isolation, … members of the association into closer union, and ensure a better appreciation of our science and its students on the part of the general public .”
In October 2011, Chandler's opponent, Andy Barr called their forthcoming contest “ a rematch of the third-closest Congressional race in America ” and said that Chandler was burdened with “ considerable dissatisfaction ” on the part of his constituents and the difficulty of running on the ticket with Obama.
John Shirigian believes Zachariah Chandler did not start earnestly in politics until his bid for Mayor in 1851, but because of his anti-slavery propensities Chandler must be said to have begun his ‘ grassroots ’ political work in the 1840s.

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Of all the thousands of men who have served in the 7th Cav, perhaps no one knows its spirit better than Lieutenant Colonel Melbourne C. Chandler.
They have two daughters, Chandler and Haviland.
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 ).
Marlborough's apologists though, including his most notable descendant and biographer Winston Churchill, have been at pains to attribute patriotic, religious, and moral motives to his action ; but in the words of Chandler, it is difficult to absolve Marlborough of ruthlessness, ingratitude, intrigue and treachery against a man to whom he owed virtually everything in his life and career to date.
In his critique of the mystery genre, The Simple Art of Murder, Raymond Chandler ridiculed some preposterous plot points: " I have known relatively few international financiers, but I rather think the author of this novel has ( if possible ) known fewer.
Chandler noted that The Red House Mystery seemed to have been in print in the US for about sixteen years.
Included among those Old Alleynians who have achieved eminence in their respective fields are Sir Ernest Shackleton, Sir P G Wodehouse, Raymond Chandler and Sir Edward George.
* Raymond Chandler in his first novel, The Big Sleep ( 1939 ), lets his private eye Philip Marlowe describe and comment on " a knight in dark armour rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn't have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair.
In October 1979, the band released a new studio album Return to Base ...., the first album not to have Chandler as producer.
Eventually Chandler convinced Hill to play what should have been a farewell performance in front of 65, 000 rock fans, instead of disbanding and disappearing without a trace.
Seven men have resigned the office of governor before the end of their terms — John J. Crittenden, Beriah Magoffin, John W. Stevenson, Augustus O. Stanley, Happy Chandler, Earle C. Clements, and Wendell H. Ford.
Wallace considered Happy Chandler, the former baseball commissioner and two-term former governor of Kentucky, as his running mate in his 1968 campaign as a third party candidate ; as one of Wallace's aides put it, " We have all the nuts in the country ; we could get some decent people –- you working one side of the street and he working the other side.
" But Chandler was a notoriously difficult collaborator and the two men couldn't have had more different meeting styles: Hitchcock enjoyed long, rambling off-topic meetings where often the film wouldn't even be mentioned for hours, while Chandler was strictly business and wanted to get out and get writing.
Named The Last One, it showed all six cast member starting new lives: Rachel moving to Paris but later returning after Ross says he loves her, Monica and Chandler finally having children when their surrogate gives birth to twins, Joey is still living in his apartment with a job on Days of our Lives while Phoebe and Mike decide to have children.
Baseball owners who had been afraid that their players would be made eligible for the draft during the war had decided that their new commissioner needed to have the skills and influence to represent baseball's interests in Washington, D. C. As a senator, Chandler had advocated on behalf of baseball during the war, endearing him to the owners.
All except 13 sitting Republicans have signed the pledge, while three Democrats have signed it ( Sen. Ben Nelson ( NE ) and House members Robert Andrews ( NJ ) and Ben Chandler ( KY )).

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