Mary rents a third floor studio apartment in a Victorian house from acquaintance and downstairs landlady, Phyllis Lindstrom ( Cloris Leachman ), and becomes best friends with upstairs neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern ( Valerie Harper ).

In 1745, a group of courtiers, including her father-in-law, promoted her acquaintance with the monarch, who was still mourning the death of his third official mistress, the duchesse de Châteauroux.

Bentham asserted that in the King's Bench, Blackstone was " always in hot water ", and that there was " heartburning " between the two ; Bentham's account is considered dubious because historically, Mansfield and Blackstone had an excellent relationship, with the third volume of the Commentaries describing Mansfield as " a judge, whose masterly acquaintance with the law of nations was known and revered by every state in Europe ".

The third of Rothschild's T35Cs was regularly campaigned by a rather curious acquaintance for a future Baron.

Bertrand Russell is famous for distinguishing " knowledge by description " ( a form of knowledge that ) and " knowledge by acquaintance " in Problems of Philosophy.

Though all knowledge about Anne's experiences in the French court are conjecture, even Eric Ives, in his latest edition of the biography, conjectures that she was likely to have made the acquaintance of King Francis I's sister, Marguerite de Navarre, a patron of humanists and reformers.

It was not till his eightieth year that he made his first acquaintance with Greek literature, though some think after examining his writings that he may have had a knowledge of Greek works for much of his life.

Of Posidonius's work on tactics, The Art of War, the Greek historian Arrian complained that it was written ' for experts ', which suggests that Posidonius may have had first hand experience of military leadership or, perhaps, utilized knowledge he gained from his acquaintance with Pompey.

In the traditional Mayan ( and Mesoamerican ) community, one of the most important functions was that of rain maker, which presupposed an intimate acquaintance with ( and thus, initiation by ) the rain deities, and a knowledge of their places and movements.

Discarding the old idea that philology consisted in a minute acquaintance with words and the exercise of the critical art, he regarded it as the entire knowledge of antiquity ( totius antiquitatis cognitio ), historical and philosophical.

During his travels, in his eager search for knowledge, he made the acquaintance of mystics and separatists, Christians and learned Jews, theologians and physicians alike.

It limits itself to its simplest meaning, namely, knowledge of or acquaintance with what is lawful and binding.

Harris ' knowledge of the prison came from her days as a newspaper reporter in the Bay Area, and her acquaintance with famous San Quentin prisoner Ed Morrell.

To a perfect knowledge of Greek and Latin he added an intimate acquaintance with several modern languages.

The contrasting expressions " knowledge by acquaintance " and " knowledge by description " were promoted by Bertrand Russell, who was extremely critical of the equivocal nature of the word know, and believed that the equivocation arose from a failure to distinguish between the two fundamentally different types of knowledge.

In 1865, philosopher John Grote distinguished between what he described as " knowledge of acquaintance " and " knowledge-about ".

Grote ’ s " knowledge of acquaintance " is far better known today as " knowledge by acquaintance " following Russell ’ s decision to change the preposition in a paper that he read to the Aristotelian Society on 6 March 1911.

According to Russell, knowledge by acquaintance is obtained through a direct causal ( experience-based ) interaction between a person and the object that person is perceiving.

This direct contact with the fact and the knowledge that this fact makes a proposition true is what is meant with knowledge by acquaintance.

Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

Since more is known about Quiney than about any other acquaintance of Shakespeare in Stratford, his career may be followed to its sudden end in 1602.

Ordinary politeness may have militated against this opinion being stated so badly but anyone with a wide acquaintance in both groups and who has sat through the many round tables, workshops or panel discussions -- whatever they are called -- on this subject will recognize that the final, boiled down crux of the matter is education.

Usually, the detective either stumbles across the murder or is called upon by an old acquaintance, who is somehow involved.

It is uncertain what the actual role and function of Abraxas was in the Basilidian system, as our authorities often show no direct acquaintance with the doctrines of Basilides himself.

* Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe ( ISBN 0-8131-1728-3 ), by Donald R. Burleson, PhD, a longtime scholar on Lovecraft and acquaintance of S. T. Joshi, is probably the only book analyzing Lovecraft's literature from a deconstructionist standpoint.

After planning and coordinating another successful wedding ceremony, San Francisco wedding planner Mary ( Jennifer Lopez ) is re-introduced to childhood acquaintance Massimo ( Justin Chambers ) by her father ( Alex Rocco ) who wants the two of them to marry.

It is quite true, as has been often said, that “ we are all socialists up to a certain point ”; but Mr. Gladstone fixed that point lower, and was more vehement against those who went above it, than any other politician or official of my acquaintance.

The authors further distinguish between ' Aggregation ', where one object ' has ' or ' is part of ' another object ( implying that an aggregate object and its owner have identical lifetimes ) and acquaintance, where one object merely ' knows of ' another object.

Sometimes acquaintance is called ' association ' or the ' using ' relationship.

Upon her arrival in Bath she is without acquaintance, leading her to immediately form a quick friendship with Catherine Morland.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a parlor game based on the " six degrees of separation " concept, which posits that any two people on Earth are, on average, about six acquaintance links apart.

Arion is mentioned in Act 1, scene ii of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, where the Captain reassures Viola that her brother may still be alive after the shipwreck, for " like Arion on the dolphin's back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves.

* A historical interest is also attached to the Gasthof zum Goldenen Kreuz ( Golden Cross Inn ), where Charles V made the acquaintance of Barbara Blomberg, the mother of Don John of Austria ( born 1547 ).

: It is their duty to have an eye of inspection and care over all the members of the congregation ; and, for this purpose, to cultivate a universal and intimate acquaintance, as far as may be, with every family in the flock of which they are made " overseers ".

Visiting his client at her hotel, he learns her real name is Brigid O ' Shaughnessy, she never had a sister, and Thursby was an acquaintance who had betrayed her.

Their tent mate is Cadet White, but their acquaintance is all too brief ; White is killed in an air crash the same day.

There, he is found, not as a result of a massive search, but simply by chance by an acquaintance.

As they await a sad and final parting, Dolly Messiter, a talkative acquaintance of Laura, invites herself to join them and is soon chattering away, oblivious to the couple's inner misery.

Their acquaintance is certain, but whether or not the two shared a romantic relationship remains unknown.

These conclusions, published anonymously in his book Arcanum punctuationis revelatum ( Leiden, 1624 ), were hotly contested by Johannes Buxtorf, since they conflicted with those of his father, Johannes Buxtorf senior ; Elias Levita had already disputed the antiquity of the vowel points, with which neither Jerome nor the Talmud showed any acquaintance.

The sentimental key in which the book is written shows the author's acquaintance with Sterne and Richardson, but he had neither the humour of Sterne nor the subtle insight into character of Richardson.

Years earlier he had confided to an acquaintance that “ I could never write in another language, nor live in any other place than Germany .”

I never designed to get any thing by your interest, nor by icing James's favour, but am now sensible that I must withdraw from your acquaintance, and see neither you nor the rest of my friends any more, if I may but have them quietly.

I thank you heartily for the pamphlet, and for the authorities you give me for the doctrines I have sworn by, long and long since: I know not how long, they have been my creed: I believe, before even my happiness in your acquaintance and friendship, tho ' they have certainly been strengthen'd and confirm'd by your conversation and instruction — in support of these principles I trust I shall ever act, and I shall continue to attempt their general propagation ;— whether by the best means, is matter of speculation: but by the best, according to my judgement — nothing can make me a disciple of Paine or Priestley, nor any thing induce me to proclaim, that I am not so, but in the mode I myself think the best to resist their mischief — private conversation and private insinuation may best suit the extent of my abilities, the turn of my temper, and the nature of my character ...