The Peter family proved wonderful and helpful friends in the following days, Mrs. Peter, little Esther, and Raoul, who generously lent me his sleeping bag for my `` Watch on the Rhine ''.

On the evening of December 27th, Esther noticed my pallid look and rasping voice.

Williams wrote in her autobiography, " If it took nine months for a baby to be born, I figured my ' birth ' from Esther Williams the swimmer to Esther Williams the movie actress would not be much different.

" The two Jacobs ", says Jonathan Swift to Esther Johnson, " think it I who have made the secretary take from them the printing of the Gazette, which they are going to lose .... Jacob came to me t ' other day to make his court ; but I told him it was too late, and that it was not my doing.

Ben-Hur tells Esther that he heard Jesus talk of forgiveness while on the cross, and says " I felt His voice take the sword out of my hand.

Esther looked at me.

' The best lesson that Esther taught me was that people who think they are funny rarely are '".

Without preliminaries, Esther asked him, `` If you are a world citizen, will you take Garry Davis' place in his tent while he goes to the hospital ''??

Meanwhile, Mr. Green ( Keenan Wynn ) arrives at the airport to pick up his niece Martha ( Shelley Duvall ), aka " L. A. Joan ", a teenage groupie who has come to Nashville ostensibly to visit her aunt Esther Green who is sick in the hospital.

Through the years Eye has had a deer park, a leper hospital, a gaol, a workhouse, a David Fisher theatre, a coaching inn with posting establishment, a working men's hall and reading room, an Esther, a guildhall, a grammar school, 20 pubs ( including beer houses ) and an airfield which was occupied by the 480th and 490th USAAF Bomb Groups during World War II.

* Doctor Nolan is Esther ’ s doctor at the countryside hospital.

He is a " very well paid professor of mathematics " and invites Esther to have coffee, which leads to her having sex with him, which leads to Esther's having to go to the hospital to get help to stop bleeding.

* In the 2009 horror film, Orphan, Esther / Leela Klammer is a mental hospital escapee who attempts to murder her adoptive mother Kate out of jealously over not being able to seduce Kate's husband John.

Pinturas murales del pabellón hospital J. J. Martirené de la colonia Saint Bois ( con Esther de Cáceres, Carmelo de Arzadum, Alfredo Cáceres, Pablo Purriel, Juan R. Menchaca, y Guido Castillo ).

The hospital retains Swiftian touches, with wards named after Stella ( Esther Johnson ), Vanessa ( Esther Vanhomrigh ), Henry Grattan, the village of Kilroot ( in County Antrim ) where Swift worked as Prebend at the church, and Laracor ( County Meath ) where he also worked as a clergyman.

" If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther.

Esther sent clean clothes to him, but he refused them, explaining that deliverance for the Jews would come from some other place, but that Esther would be killed if she did not do what she could to stop this genocide — by talking to the king.

Heckart was born Anna Eileen Herbert in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Esther Stark, who wed Leo Herbert at her own mother's insistence so her child would not be born with the stigma of illegitimacy.

His parents, Aimé Derrida ( 1896 – 1970 ) and Georgette Sultana Esther Safar ( 1901 – 1991 ), named him Jackie, after American actor Jackie Coogan, though he would later adopt a more " correct " version of his first name when he moved to Paris.

If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther ( assuming the biblical Ahasuerus is indeed Xerxes I ).

The problem he has to face towards the end of the novel would be considered rather severe by the average person, but Edek Zepler just laughs it off: Henia's two sons want him to sign a pre-nuptial agreement so that he would not inherit anything if Henia died first ( and so that he would not be able to bequeath the Borenstein fortune to Esther and his grandchildren ).

Nobody would guess that Sean, Esther, Zachary, Zelda and Kate-Sean's 19 year-old daughter by his first wife, who died of cancer-are a patchwork family.

Esther Walton and the Baldwin sisters would have been in their late 90s – 100 by the last three reunion movies.

Johnston's This Time for Keeps co-star, Esther Williams, claimed in her 1999 autobiography that while making the film, Johnston would read Grayson's intimate letters aloud to the girls in his fan club, including the " all-too-graphic details concerning what she liked about his love-making.

He would later pass stewardship of the Kafka materials in his possession to Esther in his will.

As a child, Slovak developed an interest in art, and would often spend time painting with his mother, Esther.

MGM swimming star Esther Williams would later state in her 1999 autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid that Schary was rude, cruel, and as imperious as Mayer had been.

Currier & Ives prints were among the household decorations considered appropriate for a proper home by Catharine Esther Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, authors of American Woman's Home ( 1869 ): " The great value of pictures for the home would be, after all, in their sentiment.

Photographers on the SO project included, among others: Berenice Abbott, Gordon Parks and Todd Webb ; as well as Esther Bubley, Harold Corsini, Russell Lee, Arnold S. Eagle, Elliott Erwitt and Sol Libsohn, who would later follow Stryker to his next project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

She would, however, make occasional appearances on television, including mystery guest appearances for What's My Line ?, The Ed Sullivan Show and two aqua-specials, The Esther Williams Aqua Spectacle in 1956 and Esther Williams at Cypress Gardens on August 8, 1960.

During a carnival of 1898, the young poet met his first love, a girl named Mary Esther Jurkovski, who would inspire two of his most important works: The Slaughter ( 1920 ) and A Season of Love.

They are identical except that Athanasius includes the Book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah and places the Book of Esther among the " 7 books not in the canon but to be read " along with the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach ( Ecclesiasticus ), Judith, Tobit, the Didache, and the Shepherd of Hermas.

* The primary source relating to the origin of Purim is the Megillat Esther ( Book of Esther ), which became the last of the 24 books of the Tanakh to be canonized by the Sages of the Great Assembly.

Some modern scholars suggest the book of Esther to be a historical novella.

Berlin quotes a series of scholars who suggest that the author of Esther did not mean for the book to be considered as a historical writing, but intentionally wrote it to be a historical novella.

However, according to Coogan, considerable historical inaccuracies remain throughout the text, supporting the view that the book of Esther is to be read as a historical novella which tells a story describing historical events but is not necessarily historical fact.

Esther was not permitted to see the king unless he had asked for her, otherwise she could be put to death.

A building known as the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai is located in Hamadan, Iran, although the village of Kfar Bar ' am in northern Israel also claims to be the burial place of Queen Esther.

However, Rabbinical writings seem to indicate that certain books were disputed as accepted canon ( such as Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs and Esther, see also Antilegomena ), but it may not necessarily be the case.

In 1964, Johnson named Assistant Secretary of Labor Esther Peterson to be the first presidential assistant for consumer affairs.

Very similar things can be said about the heroine of Brett's book, Esther Zepler.

Such an agreement, Esther and her husband Sean warn him, might mean that he could be left even without a place to stay after her death.

But when Lucille turns out to be interested in Lon, Esther switches her dance card with Lucille's and instead dances herself with the clumsy and awkward partners.

Seized with passion for Esther, Schmidt tried to force himself upon her, only to be rejected by her.

John and Esther Bennion ’ s daughter, Rachael, was the first pioneer child to be born in Field ’ s Bottom.

According to the Book of Esther, in the Hebrew Bible, Haman, royal vizier to King Ahasuerus ( presumed to be Xerxes I of Persia ), planned to kill all the Jews in the empire, but his plans were foiled by Mordecai and his adopted daughter Queen Esther.