Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

The famous Latin Responsa Prudentium (" answers of the learned ones ") were the accumulated views of many successive generations of Roman lawyers, a body of legal opinion which gradually became authoritative.

Hercule Poirot became famous with the publication, in 1926, of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, whose surprising solution proved controversial.

Under this title the book became famous in the English-speaking world.

His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in 1899, 1901 – 02 and the classic 1902 series, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.

" His " Orphic Sayings ", published in The Dial, became famous for their hilarity as dense, pretentious, and meaningless.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

Along with the Pontificale, Ealdred may have brought back from Cologne the first manuscript of the Cambridge Songs to enter England, a collection of Latin Goliardic songs which became famous in the Middle Ages.

He became famous for the simplicity of his way of living and his acute observations on the institutions and customs of the Greeks.

Ares was acquitted, and this event is supposed to have given rise to the name Areopagus ( or Hill of Ares ), which afterward became famous as a court of justice.

Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822 ) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh.

Because Dürer left autobiographical writings and became very famous by his mid-twenties, his life is well documented by several sources.

Benny Carter became Fletcher's main arranger in the early 30's, moving on become as famous for his arranging expertise as his musicianship.

Maasstraat became famous as the first group combining reggae with Dutch lyrics, inspiring acts like Postmen, for example.

Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.

He became famous for his knowledge of early Arabian antiquities.

Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

There is some uncertainty as to how Deutero-Isaiah and Trito-Isaiah came to be attached to the original Isaiah: the two competing theories are either that Deutero-Isaiah was written as a continuation of Proto-Isaiah, or that it was written separately and became attached to the famous Isaiah later.

" After wearing glasses for a while, his eyes became adjusted to the lenses, and at that point he became nearsighted and really did need glasses, which would years later establish John as one of the most famous " four-eyes " in rock and roll, though Holly is widely considered to be the first.

" It became one of the most famous children ’ s letters ever written and the basis of Potter ’ s future career as a writer-artist-storyteller.

The Brooke dynasty ruled Sarawak for a hundred years and became famous as the " White Rajahs ".

Ian MacGregor later became famous for his role as Chairman of the National Coal Board during the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ).

That was the fount and origin of the famous declaration about the National Home for the Jews in Palestine .... As soon as I became Prime Minister I talked the whole matter over with Mr Balfour, who was then Foreign Secretary.

Law became a conscious process, something more than simply doing justice and looking to local customs and a common morality for applicable norms.

When he attended the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade school here about six months ago, Jim became convinced that an individual can do something constructive in the ideological battle and set out to do it.

The Basternae could indeed have spoken a form of Indo-European which became extinct or developed into something new.

Conflict of interest between savers and borrowers was never fully reconciled in the building societies but upon deregulation that reconciliation became something of a lost cause.

As generations grew up never having known anything but the USSR, party membership became something one generally achieved after passing a series of stages.

The agreement provided that the ELCA would accept the historical episcopate, something which became controversial in the ELCA.

" Hercules, the image, became to the revolutionaries, something to rally around.

Thomas, realizing that his success as a high school dropout might convince other teenagers to quit school ( something he later claimed was a mistake ), became a student at Coconut Creek High School.

" One Cree speaker suggested the original word that became corrupted to Eskimo might indeed have been askamiciw ( which means " he eats it raw "), and the Inuit are referred to in some Cree texts as askipiw ( which means " eats something raw ").

Martial arts became something of a necessity and his father urged him to begin training.

But in the weeks after Major Anderson's surprising stand, it became something different.

From 1945 to 1956, the German Mine Sweeping Administration and its successor organizations, made up of former members of the Kriegsmarine, became something of a transition stage for the Marine, allowing the future Marine to draw on experienced personnel upon its formation.

I missed my late helmsman awfully "-" don't you see, he had done something, he had steered "-" and thus a subtle bond had been created, of which I only became aware when it was suddenly broken.

It became something of a local joke to refer to the new arrivals from Indiana as " hoosiers ", and before long, anyone from the rural edges of St. Louis County was considered such.

Informally, the expression " infinitesimal calculus " became commonly used to refer to Weierstrass ' approach but has become something of a dead metaphor.

Though fundamentally an outcast at Revere High School, Dahmer nonetheless became something of a cult figure among some students due to his impressions of his mother's interior decorator, who suffered from cerebral palsy.

Since Poland was regarded as the East European state with the most powerful army, it became imperative to tie Poland to Britain as the best way of ensuring Polish support for Romania, since it was the obvious quid pro quo that Britain would have to do something for Polish security if the Poles were to be induced to do something for Romanian security.

Carson said, " Beaver was getting scarce, it became necessary to try our hand at something else.

With the withdrawal of many troops at the start of the Civil War, New Mexicans became more outspoken and demanded that something be done.

At first Neil refused the offer, but as the other members of Rock Candy became involved in outside projects, Neil grew anxious to try something else.

Webster in early life was something of a freethinker, but in 1808 he became a convert to Calvinistic orthodoxy, and thereafter became a devout Congregationalist who preached the need to Christianize the nation.

John Elliotson was a brilliant but erratic heart specialist became a phrenologist in the 1840s, he was also a mesmerist and combined the two into something he called phrenomesmerism or phrenomegnatism.

Later emperors went even further, until Justinian finally decreed that a child in potestate became owner of everything it acquired, except when it acquired something from its father.