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Gladys May Aylward ( Chinese name: 艾偉德, pinyin: ài wěi dé ) ( 24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970 ) was the evangelical Christian missionary to China whose story was told in the book The Small Woman by Alan Burgess, published in 1957.
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Gladys Maria Knight ( born May 28, 1944 ), known as the " Empress of Soul ", is an American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, humanitarian, and author.
Tyrone would enter the scene, muttering a song ( usually " In the Merry, Merry Month of May ",) and, spying Gladys on the bench, would sit next to her.
On May 22, 1899, Samuel Insull married a " tiny, exquisitely beautiful and clever " Broadway ingénue actress whose stage name was ( Alis ) Gladys Wallis ( 1875 – September 23, 1953 ).
Badcoe was born as Peter John Badcock on 11 January 1934 in the Adelaide suburb of Malvern, South Australia, to Leslie Allen Badcock, a public servant, and his wife Gladys Mary Ann May ( née Overton ).
On 15 May 2012, Gladys Berejiklian announced three initiatives following a review into the operation and management of Railcorp.
Sidney Bates was born in Camberwell, London on June 14, 1921 Frederick, a rag and bone man, and Gladys May Bates.
Trevor Baylis was born on 13 May in 1937 to Cecil Archibald Walter Baylis and Gladys Jane Brown in Kilburn, London.
Gladys Hosking, 40, was the next victim, murdered on May 18 while walking home from work at the Chemistry Library at Melbourne University.
May Aufderheide was a member of the Indianapolis ragtime community that included Paul Pratt, Cecil Duane Crabb, J. Russel Robinson, Will B. Morrison, Julia Lee Niebergall, and Gladys Yelvington.
Wilma Flintstone, Marcia Brady, Alice Kramden, Gladys Kravitz, Laverne and Shirley, Jeannie, Morticia Addams, Aunt Esther, Sweet Polly Purebred, Natasha, Mrs. MacGillicuddy, Ginger, Mary Anne, Mrs. Howell, Samantha Stevens, Lieutentant Uhura, Judy Jetson, Olive Oyl, Ethel Mertz, Edith Bunker, Marilyn Munster, Rhoda, Penny Robinson, Chrissy Snow, Catwoman, Creepela, Weezie Jefferson, Betty Rubble, Little Cindy Who, Penelope Pitstop, Lois Lane, Vanna White, Wonder Woman, Elly May, Maude, Witchiepoo
On May 23, 2008, at 9 AM, the station began stunting with Christmas music, after playing " Neither One Of Us ( Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye )" by Gladys Knight and the Pips.
* Mrs. Gladys Felicia Dimson ( Lab ): Haringey 1964 – 1967 ; Wandsworth 1970 – 1973 ; Battersea North 1973 – May 2, 1985
Gladys and Aylward
Shortly after her death, an Edmonton secondary school formerly known as Weir Hall was renamed Gladys Aylward School in her honour.
Numerous books, short stories and movies have been created about the life and work of Gladys Aylward ( listed below ).
* In the 1958 film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Ingrid Bergman portrays British missionary to China Gladys Aylward, who is assigned as a foreigner the task by a local Mandarin to unbind the feet of young women, an unpopular order that the civil government had failed to fulfill.
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 American 20th Century Fox film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II.
The film makers, since release, have been criticised for casting Ingrid Bergman, a tall woman with a Swedish accent, as Gladys Aylward, who was in fact short and had a cockney accent.
Gladys and Chinese
Today, Lagat lives in Tucson AZ and Tübingen ( Germany ) with his wife Gladys Tom ( a Canadian of Chinese descent ), whom he met while they both attended Washington State University, and their son Miika Kimutai ( born in 2006 ) and daughter Gianna ( born 2008 ).
Gladys Yang (; 19 January 1919 – 18 November 1999 ) was a British translator of Chinese literature and the wife of another noted translator, Yang Xianyi.
Born Gladys Margaret Tayler in Peking, she returned to England as a child and became Oxford's first graduate in Chinese in 1940.
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