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Then Little Billy began shouting orders to round up the ponies and fill the water buckets and for the cooks to hurry up with the meal.
When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.
Mary Jane took the page from him and began reading it, moving her lips with the words.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
The drummer flogged the gourd with frantic intensity as the dancers began the calinda, a sensual gyration which had long been a favorite of voodoo practitioners and their disciples in the Louisiana slave compounds.
Through the Frankfurt Jewish Kulturbund he began to give sonata recitals in synagogues, with Cellist Emanuel Feuermann.
After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.
A series of conferences with friends and bankers began about this time ; ;
In the final issues of the Englishman, which ended just as the new session of Parliament began, he provided his enemies with still more ammunition.
Having done so, he began to experience all the frustrations of others who attempted to get along with Serenissimus and do a job at the same time.
When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.
Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.
He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.
The process usually began with a tutor boasting about a boy, as Chappell had boasted about Lightfoot, to the higher officers of the college and university.
Woodrow Wilson, with whom he began his years in Washington, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, FDR, with whom he managed a social revolution.
After she had served the detectives coffee and toast ( they politely declined eggs, uncomfortable about their tenancy ), she settled down with a morning newspaper and began reading the stock market quotations.
Stranger, Uncle Randolph began riding home nights with a jug strapped to his saddle, drunkenly singing `` Old Dan Tucker '' at the top of his voice.
Martha picked up the hem of her gown and with eyes closed she slowly began to dance a stately minuet around the ballroom.
David began to shave with great sweeping strokes.
At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.
In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.

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Enclosing the image inside static vignettes or masks of shapes other than circular also began to appear in films during the years 1914-1919, including symbolic shapes such as a cruciform cut-out in the Mary Pickford film Stella Maris ( Marshall Neilan, 1918 ), and Maurice Elvey in Britain put romantic scenes inside a heart-shaped mask in Nelson ; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero ( 1918 ) and The Rocks of Valpré ( 1919 ).
The party began with a " Grand Tournament " in which the participants wore motorcycle helmets, fencing masks, and usually some semblance of a costume, and whacked away at each other with weapons including plywood swords, padded maces, and even a fencing foil.
With the fall of the Venetian Republic at the end of the 18th century, the use and tradition of masks gradually began to decline, until they disappeared altogether.
In 1969 body-checking in all three zones in a rink was allowed, helmets and goaltender masks became mandatory in the early 1970s and in 1992 the IIHF began using the shootout.
The crew then put on their oxygen masks and the aircraft began its descent.
They wore furry boots, bright masks and began matches with a t-shirt ripping routine ( similar to Hulk Hogan's ).
His work with masks became especially influential, opening up a new field of theatrical exploration for the Dadaists ( as the Cabaret Voltaire crew began calling themselves ), and earning special praise from Ball.
After the departure of some of the student actors and teachers, Copeau began work with his reduced troupe on the " New Comedy ", an attempt to reproduce the Italian commedia dell ’ arte with masks and an acting style based on improvisation.
In 2007 Bump in the night productions began selling a line of officially licensed Killer Klowns masks props and costumes.
Freed of the masks and now under management of former referee " The Godfather " Teddy Long, Doom began to prosper.
Thus, they began competing under the masks of Los Conquistadores.
* In October 2005, Burger King began to sell Halloween masks resembling The King and Burger King's viral marketing character The Subservient Chicken.
They began wearing guards, helmets, and plates from various sports ( hockey, baseball, etc ...), and incorporating them into the playing of their instruments ( for instance, elbow pads and hockey masks were used to strike cymbals ).
To distract and amuse the boy, a local group disguised themselves as Spaniards with masks and began to dance showing “ para el chico ” which means “ for the boy .” According to one version of the story, this is what cured the child.

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Reporters began to trail Miriam everywhere, and to encourage her to make appalling statements about Wright and his doings.
Lewis looked at him and began to cry, and then, saying that he was going to make a promise, he asked Blackman to call the porter and to tell him to take out all the liquor that he did not want.
In the military field, incoming orders turned down early in the year, and remained rather slow until late fall when the upturn in procurement of equipment began to make itself felt in rising orders for components.
A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.
With his free hand he pulled a pad and pencil toward him and began to make notes as he listened, saying, `` Uh-huh '' and `` I see '' at intervals.
However, he was never able to make a living with his art, and, as he began to perceive most of the proletarian movement as " putting unfulfilled political ideals directly onto the canvas ", he lost his enthusiasm for painting.
Agrippina began to support Britannicus in her attempt to make him emperor.
In his native village he began to make preparations for erecting a temple which was to contain, not only the above statue, but other works of his own ; within its precincts were to repose also the ashes of the founder.
There, with the support of a group of professors and students, he began reinventing a project that would make him famous: the geodesic dome.
The fixed-blade utility knife was developed some 500, 000 years ago, when humans began to make knives made of stone.
According to this theory, the cycle of philosophical upheavals that in part drove the diversification of Buddhism into its many schools and sects only began once Buddhists began attempting to make explicit the implicit philosophy of the Buddha and the early suttas.
Plug was a comic based on the eponymous character from The Bash Street Kids that began with issue dated 24 September 1977, and is notable for being the first comic to make use of rotogravure printing.
BSI Group began in 1901 as the Engineering Standards Committee, led by James Mansergh, to standardise the number and type of steel sections, in order to make British manufacturers more efficient and competitive.
He commanded enormous fees playing dances there, and began to make more creative use of electric guitars to replace the big horn sections the Tulsa band had boasted.
To make matters worse, Stalin began espousing his policy of socialism in one country – a policy often viewed, wrongly, as an attack on Trotsky, when it was really aimed at Zinoviev.
Traditional cocktails and gin began to make a comeback in the 2000s.
After the Second World War, the growth of the Unitarians in Canada began to show the strength which would make some Canadian organization feasible, if not imperative.
However, during the same period, a group of ambitious producers began working outside the boundaries of DOC regulations to make what they believed would be a higher quality style of Chianti.
Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, many governments presiding over planned economies began marketization ( or as in the Soviet Union, the system collapsed ) and moving toward market-based economies by allowing individual enterprises to make the pricing, production, and distribution decisions, granting autonomy to state enterprises and ultimately expanding the scope of the private sector through privatization.
However, by 1704 the Province of Pennsylvania had grown so large that their representatives wanted to make decisions without the assent of the Lower Counties and the two groups of representatives began meeting on their own, one at Philadelphia, and the other at New Castle.
The DFLP has been largely unable to make its presence felt during the al-Aqsa Intifada, which began in 2000.
By the time Allen reached his teens, the area, while still a difficult area in which to make a living, began to resemble a town, with wood-frame houses beginning to replace the rough cabins of the early settlers.
In 1934 the British military began to make strides toward radar ( which also uses the magnetron ) under the direction of Dr Wimperis, culminating in the operation of the first radar station at Bawdsey in August 1936.

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