Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

Carl was still Charles A. Sandburg.

He `` legitimized '' Paula for Lilian Steichen, and it was Paula who insisted on Carl for Charles.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

The country was now full of Gazettes and Samuel C. Atkinson and Charles Alexander, who had just taken over Franklin's old paper, desired a more distinctive name.

Somehow Dr. Charles Leale was forced through the mob and squeezed out into the dingy corridor.

So Charles was dead.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.

Charles Thiot, a splendid Georgia soldier, differed from most of his comrades in the ranks in that he was the owner of a large plantation, well-educated, and nearly fifty years of age.

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.

So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.

The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.

Vincent G. Ierulli has been appointed temporary assistant district attorney, it was announced Monday by Charles E. Raymond, District Attorney.

The victim, Norman B. Wiley, 38, of the 900 block North Charles Street, was treated for cuts at Franklin Square Hospital after the robbery.

Charles Reynolds of Pumpkin Ridge was rabbit showmanship champion.

Anne said it wasn't surprising because Charles was antisocial, a lone wolf, and completely one-sided.

Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California while Lerner went through a series of musicals, some successful, some not, with such composers as André Previn ( Coco ), John Barry ( Lolita, My Love ), Leonard Bernstein ( 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ), Burton Lane ( Carmelina ) and Charles Strouse ( Dance a Little Closer, based on the film, Idiot's Delight, nicknamed Close A Little Faster by Broadway wags because it closed on opening night ).

They were later nicknamed ' Charlies ', probably after the reigning monarch King Charles II.

He raises and leads his own volunteer cavalry regiment ( nicknamed the Unauthorized Regiment ) in the Second Mexican War, fighting alongside George Armstrong Custer to repulse the Anglo-Canadian army led by Charles George Gordon.

* Charles Eustis Bohlen, American diplomat nicknamed " Chip "

His father was nicknamed " Bix ," as, for a time, was his older brother, Charles Burnette " Burnie " Beiderbecke.

Louis Charles was visibly stronger than the sickly Dauphin, and the new baby was affectionately nicknamed by the queen, chou d ' amour.

In this movie, the main focus was on David Niven's role as Sir Charles Lytton, the infamous jewel thief nicknamed " the Phantom ", and his plan to steal the Pink Panther diamond.

Hexley's name was a mistake: it was originally supposed to be named after Thomas Henry Huxley, a 19th century English biologist who was a well-known champion of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution ( nicknamed " Darwin's bulldog ").

In the end, on 3 September 1730, he abdicated, leaving the throne to Charles ( nicknamed " Carlino " for his puny and unpleasant build ).

Charles Dillon " Casey " Stengel (; July 30, 1890 – September 29, 1975 ), nicknamed " The Old Perfessor ", was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and manager.

After completion of the villa in 1729, Burlington later provided inspiration to other architects for numerous other buildings, such as Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood House, and the Mansion House, nicknamed the " Egyptian Hall " for its columns.

Joseph Marie Charles dit ( called or nicknamed ) Jacquard ( 7 July 1752 – 7 August 1834 ) was a French weaver and merchant.

Prince Rupert of the Rhine, an archetypal cavalier and prominent general in the army of King Charles I, nicknamed the New Model troops " Ironsides ".

After the English Civil War in the mid 17th century, the Virginia Colony was nicknamed " The Old Dominion " by King Charles II for its perceived loyalty to the English monarchy during the era of the Commonwealth of England.

Teammate Brian Sutter nicknamed Gilmour " Killer " in part due to his on-ice intensity, but also because of Gilmour's resemblance to convicted serial killer Charles Manson.

* Charles S. Roberts Award, nicknamed Charlie, an award in war-gaming

* Lorenzo Charles ( born 1963 ) nicknamed Zo, a basketball player born in New York

Despite the " group marriage " aspects of that sect, he was generally rejected during his five years there, and was nicknamed " Charles Gitout ".

Charles William Read ( May 12, 1840 – January 25, 1890 ), nicknamed " Savvy ", was an officer in the antebellum United States Navy and then in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.

The " fourth party ", as it was nicknamed, at first did little damage to the government, but awakened the opposition from its apathy ; Churchill roused the Conservatives by leading resistance to Charles Bradlaugh, the member for Northampton, who, though an avowed atheist or agnostic, was prepared to take the parliamentary oath.

The participants, who nicknamed themselves " the committee ," included the hotel's owner, Charles Schimmel.

Charles Oscar Finley ( February 22, 1918 – February 19, 1996 ), nicknamed Charlie O or Charley O, was an American businessman who is best remembered for his tenure as the owner of the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball team.

Charles Leonard Gehringer ( May 11, 1903 – January 21, 1993 ), nicknamed “ The Mechanical Man ,” was a German-American Major League Baseball second baseman who played 19 seasons ( 1924 – 42 ) for the Detroit Tigers.

* Charles Haddon Spurgeon, English Baptist pastor in London, nicknamed " The Prince of Preachers "