It was a brilliant debut, so much so indeed that it aroused a new vitality in the younger poets, as did Byron's Childe Harold.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

Eugene was not entirely silent, or openly rude -- unless asking Harold to move to another chair and placing himself in the fauteuil that creaked so alarmingly was an act of rudeness.

It went right on creaking under his own considerable weight, and all it needed, Harold thought, was for somebody to fling himself back in a fit of laughter and that would be the end of it.

Harold indicated the photograph on the wall and asked what church the stone sculpture was in.

Eugene offered Harold his car, to use at any time he cared to, and when this offer was not accepted, the armchair creaked.

When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.

When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment, and thought how, under different circumstances, they might have stayed on here, in these old-fashioned, high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands' apartment in the East Eighties.

There have been cases of humans being contaminated with americium, the worst case being that of Harold McCluskey, who at the age of 64 was exposed to 500 times the occupational standard for americium-241 as a result of an explosion in his lab.

Africa was also set on its course to decolonization, swept by what Harold Macmillan, the then British Prime Minister, aptly termed the " wind of change ".

Some sources state that following King Edward the Confessor's death in 1066, it was Ealdred who crowned Harold Godwinson as King of England.

Ealdred supported Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred backed Edgar the Ætheling and then endorsed King William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and a distant relative of King Edward's.

Later in 1051, when he was sent to intercept Harold Godwinson and his brothers as they fled England after their father's outlawing, Ealdred " could not, or would not " capture the brothers.

Stigand's position as archbishop was canonically suspect, and as earl Harold had not allowed Stigand to consecrate one of the earl's churches, it is unlikely that Harold would have allowed Stigand to perform the much more important royal coronation.

It was adapted for film in 1977, with Harold Prince directing and Elizabeth Taylor, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg starring.

It was directed by Harold Prince with choreography by Patricia Birch and design by Boris Aronson.

Holly was having trouble getting his royalties from Petty, so he hired the noted lawyer Harold Orenstein at the recommendation of his friends the Everly Brothers, who had engaged Orenstein following disputes with their own manager, Wesley Rose.

Instead a minority Labour government was formed under Harold Wilson but with no formal support from Thorpe.

* Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, earlier ennobled by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's notorious Lavender List ( 1976 ), was convicted of fraud ( 1980 )

BSC was formed from the assets of former private companies which had been nationalised, largely under the Labour Party government of Harold Wilson, on 28 July 1967.

The original editor was George Moonie, 1938 – 1959, followed by Harold Cramond, 1959-84.

In addition, Ethiopia had just begun to emerge from a long and brutal famine ; Harold Marcus reminds us that the army was restive over its long service in the field, short of rations, and the short rains which would bring all travel to a crawl would soon start to fall.

Those who have been inducted to the Maine Alpha chapter as undergraduates include Nathaniel Hawthorne ( 1825 ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1825 ), Robert E. Peary ( 1877 ), Owen Brewster ( 1909 ), Harold Hitz Burton ( 1909 ), Paul Douglas ( 1913 ), Alfred Kinsey ( 1916 ), Thomas R. Pickering ( 1953 ), and Lawrence B. Lindsey ( 1976 ).

In 1990, three years after his death, Harold Loeffelmacher and his Six Fat Dutchmen were inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame.

He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983, and is one of only two players to have a uniform number (# 50 ) retired by the University of Illinois football program ( the other the # 77 of Harold " Red " Grange ).

Harold Johnson was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1993.

Fayard was inducted into the National Museum of Dance C. V. Whitney Hall of Fame in 2001, along with his brother Harold Nicholas.

Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.

The first shrill ring of the telephone brought Harold out into the hall.

In 1930, England captain Douglas Jardine, together with Nottinghamshire's captain Arthur Carr and his bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, developed a variant of leg theory in which the bowlers bowled fast, short-pitched balls that would rise into the batsman's body, together with a heavily stacked ring of close fielders on the leg side.

When the police came to his house, Harold watched as they told his mother that he had died in the fire, and saw her collapse into the policemen's arms.

As he reaches this part of the story, Harold bursts into tears and declares, " I decided then I enjoyed being dead.

With the help of his underling, Tim Stamper, Urquhart goes about making sure his competitors drop out of the race: Peter MacKenzie, secretary of health, accidentally runs his car over a protester at a demonstration staged by Urquhart and is forced to withdraw by the public outcry, while Harold Earle, secretary for education, is blackmailed into withdrawing when Urquhart anonymously sends pictures of him in the company of a rentboy he had paid for sex.

The media ( particularly The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell ) used the allegation by Alastair Campbell that he had observed Major tucking his shirt into his underpants to caricature him wearing his pants outside his trousers, as a pale grey echo of both Superman and Supermac, a parody of Harold Macmillan.

Stephen responded by sending Richard's brother Baldwin and the Marcher Lord Robert Fitz Harold of Ewyas into Wales to pacify the region.

In January 1933, Georgia chain gang warden J. Harold Hardy – who was also made into a character in the film – sued the studio for displaying " vicious, untrue and false attacks " against him in the film.

Powell had also expressed his opposition to the race relations legislation being put into place by Labour prime minister Harold Wilson at this time.

Harold accompanied his father into exile in 1051, but helped him to regain his position a year later.

While crossing into Brittany past the fortified abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, Harold is recorded as rescuing two of William's soldiers from quicksand.

Due to a doubling of taxation by Tostig in 1065 that threatened to plunge England into civil war, Harold supported Northumbrian rebels against his brother, Tostig, and replaced him with Morcar.

Edith had two sons — possibly twins — named Harold and Ulf ( born around November 1066 ), both of whom survived into adulthood and probably lived out their lives in exile.

They defeated Earl Ralph at Hereford, and Harold had to collect forces from nearly all of England to drive the invaders back into Wales.

" He would not marry again, but continued to have relationships with other women ; those who knew his longtime secretary would later report her commenting " If every woman Harold slept with stood at one end of City Hall, the building would sink five inches into LaSalle Street ".

Humiliation of authority was something only previously delved into in The Goon Show and, arguably, Hancock's Half Hour, with such parliamentarians as Sir Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan coming under special scrutiny — although the BBC were predisposed to frowning upon it.

Isabella is descended from Gytha of Wessex through King Andrew II of Hungary and thus brought the bloodline of the last Saxon King of England, Harold Godwinson, back into the English Royal family.

His union position at the Inland Revenue Federation brought Callaghan into contact with Harold Laski, the Chairman of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee and an academic at the London School of Economics.

In January 1933, Georgia chain gang warden J. Harold Hardy, who was also made into a character in the film, sued the studio for displaying " vicious, brutal and false attacks " against him in the film.

In 970, he was tricked into coming to Denmark and killed in Hals in the Limfjord in a plot planned by Sigurd Haakonsson's son Haakon Sigurdsson, who had become an ally of Harold Bluetooth.

In 970, Harald II was tricked into coming to Denmark and killed in a plot planned by Sigurd Haakonsson's son Haakon Sigurdsson, who had become an ally of Harold Bluetooth.

Music critic Harold C. Schonberg in The Great Conductors ( 1967 ), says that while Strauss was a very fine conductor, he often put scant effort into his recordings.