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Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.
The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.
The latest death reported was that of 4-year-old Claude Douglas Maynor of Calvary.
Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.
A colossal campaign opened to sell more sexual organs of plants and Mrs. Joseph ( `` Shadow of Greatness '' ) Douglas was quoted as saying: `` I would no more sit down without flowers on my table than without serviettes ''.
The stage was then set for the campaign for statewide election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas as its U. S. senator.
Lincoln warned that " The Slave Power " was threatening the values of republicanism, and accused Douglas of distorting the values of the Founding Fathers that all men are created equal, while Douglas emphasized his Freeport Doctrine, that local settlers were free to choose whether to allow slavery or not, and accused Lincoln of having joined the abolitionists.
Lincoln stated Douglas's popular sovereignty theory was a threat to the nation's morality and that Douglas represented a conspiracy to extend slavery to free states.
Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.
Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.
As Douglas and the other candidates went through with their campaigns, Lincoln was the only one of them who gave no speeches.
On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.
It was the prospect of bowling at this line-up that caused England's 1932 – 33 captain Douglas Jardine to adopt the tactic of fast leg theory, also known as Bodyline.
One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.
The airframe was developed by Douglas Aircraft Company.
The EHV was initially formed with two Douglas C-47 Skytrain and three MH. 1521M Broussard aircraft.
She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.
The result of his experience with adapting The Demolished Man was The Fury, a science fiction psychic thriller that starred Kirk Douglas, Carrie Snodgress, John Cassavetes and Amy Irving.
Douglas fought in the King's own Battle, but when the fight seemed over Douglas was dragged by his men from the melee.
The connection was firmly cemented by the time Lancaster and Douglas reteamed for their final movie, Tough Guys.
Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.

Douglas and seventh
The seventh President of the University, Dr. Douglas Moore, was not even Baptist.
The merchant and philanthropist Quintin Hogg, seventh son of the first Baronet, was the father of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, twice Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom.
The series aired for most of its run in black-and-white, except for five color episodes ( 4 October 1961 – Polly Bergen – " Kitty Albright Story ", 1 November 1961 – Carolyn Jones – " Jenna Douglas Story ", 6 December 1961 – Dana Wynter – " Lizabeth Ann Calhoun Story ", 7 February 1962 – Gary Clarke – " Lonnie Fallon Story ", and 14 March 1962 – Paul Fix – " Amos Billings Story ") during the fifth season ( 1961 – 62 ) on NBC ( to help promote the sales of parent company RCA's color television sets ) and the entire seventh season ( 1963 – 64 ) on ABC of 75-minute color episodes.
Miers was the first Supreme Court nominee to withdraw since Douglas H. Ginsburg in 1987 and the seventh to do so in U. S. history.
On the whole, 1948 was more fruitful: he finished second in his Delage 158L in the 1948 British Empire Trophy at Douglas, Isle of Man, and seventh in the Zandvoort Grand Prix in the Netherlands.
Douglas, who died in 1443, was the seventh earl of Douglas and the first earl of Avondale.

Douglas and son
" Clampett ; Irene Ryan as his ornery mother-in-law, Daisy May " Granny " Moses ; Donna Douglas as his curvaceous, tom-boy daughter Elly May Clampett ; and Max Baer, Jr. as Jethro, the brawny, half-witted son of his cousin Pearl Bodine.
When he died the titles passed to his eldest son from his second marriage to Harriet Douglas, the fifth Earl.
Douglas Hamilton-Gordon ( 1824 – 1901 ), third son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria and Canon of Salisbury.
Aberdeen's second son was General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ; his third son was the Reverend Douglas Hamilton-Gordon ; and his youngest son Arthur Gordon was created Baron Stanmore in 1893.
His son James II ( reigned 1437 – 1460 ), when he came of age in 1449, continued his father's policy of weakening the great noble families, most notably taking on the powerful Black Douglas family that had come to prominence at the time of the Bruce.
Fairbanks ' son by his first wife, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., claimed that his father and Pickford long regretted their inability to reconcile.
They are the second of only two fathers and sons to earn the Medal of Honor, the first being Arthur MacArthur, Jr. and his son Douglas.
Daniel Marshall was a supporter of the American Union and a staunch Democrat, and took his son to the Lincoln and Douglas debate in Freeport in 1858.
Fairbanks was the son of Douglas Fairbanks and the stepson of Mary Pickford, who were considered Hollywood royalty.
His son Einar ( presumably a variation of the historical Ivar ), played by Kirk Douglas, vows revenge and conquers Northumbria.
Lady Douglas accused Caroline of infidelity, and alleged that William Austin was Caroline's illegitimate son.
Lady Douglas testified that Caroline herself had admitted to her in 1802 that she was pregnant, and that Austin was her son.
Born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox at Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Wetherby, Yorkshire, he was the son of William Lane-Fox and Lady Caroline Douglas, a sister of George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton.
The affair continued and in 1574 Lady Douglas gave birth to a son, also called Robert Dudley.
These included Douglas himself, Albany's son Murdoch, and the earls of Moray, Angus and Orkney ( Orkney was quickly ransomed ).
By the time that story was published, however, the term was already starting to gain a connotation of sexual deviance ( especially that of homosexual and / or effeminate males ), which is already known in the late 19th century ; an early recorded usage of the word in this sense was in a letter by John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry to his son Lord Alfred Douglas.
He was the second but eldest surviving son of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, and his wife, Lady Margaret Douglas.
James died in 1513, and their son became King James V. She married secondly Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus.
" Conradh na Gaeilge was founded in Dublin on 31 July 1893 by Douglas Hyde (), the son of a Church of Ireland rector from Frenchpark, County Roscommon with the aid of Eugene O ' Growney, Eoin MacNeill, Thomas O ' Neill Russell and others.
Before dying, the older man ( Douglas Fairbanks ' real-life father ) gives his signet ring to his son ( Douglas Fairbanks ).

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