He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

Scotty murmured, `` No, thanks '', so softly his father had to bend his gaunt height across the table and turn a round brown ear to him.

Ruth himself, still owning his farm in Massachusetts and an interest in the Massachusetts cigar business that printed his round boyish face on the wrappers, had led the parade down from Fenway Park, followed by pitchers Carl Mays, Leslie `` Joe '' Bush, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and Sam Jones, catcher Wally Schang, third baseman Joe Dugan ( who completed the `` playboy trio '' of Ruth, Dugan, and Hoyt ), and shortstop Everett Scott.

After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.

Palmer had started the round four strokes behind Player, and at one point in the afternoon had trailed by as many as six strokes.

Miss Kizzie had been right snippy ever since they were married, though you'd have thought a namesake would have brought her round.

This was essentially a replacement for Apple's connector that had conventional phone jacks instead of Apple's round connectors.

Abd al-Rahman had no banner, and so one was improvised by unwinding a green turban and binding it round the head of a spear.

in 2012, the playoffs were expanded again so that two wild card teams face off in a one game wild card round to determine which team advances to the division series, with the playoffs then continuing as it had before 2012 ( though with the possibilty of a fifth seed being in the playoffs and a fourth seed being out ) after the end of the wild card round.

This makes it much more likely that the Cisalpine Boii had actually originated from Bohemia rather than the other way round.

Uncertain whether he should choose it as a seat of war, as he looked round on his scanty force of soldiers, and remembered with what a serious warning the rashness of Petilius had been punished, he resolved to save the province at the cost of a single town.

It was the only canton that had been asked to join, not the other way round.

Of course, it is not possible for the casino to win exactly 53 cents ; this figure is the average casino profit from each player if it had millions of players each betting 10 rounds at 1 unit per round.

However, the campaigns of the previous year had inflicted heavy losses on the Sassanids and they did not attempt another round of campaigns that year.

They had the bartender prepare a round of the captain's drink for them.

The two clubs had first met in 1960, and in 1972 met in the playoffs for the first time on December 23 at Candlestick Park, in the Divisional round of the 1972 NFC playoffs.

With Colorado beating Detroit in the third round in 1996, in the second round of both 1999 and 2000, and the Red Wings beating the Avs in the third round in 1997, the battles between these two teams had become one of the fiercest in the league.

Duck Hunt, Clay Shooting mode appears as the second round with the first round being the two duck variation ( the arcade version never had one duck ).

They were round places where the grass had been flattened like a floor.

`` This harbor is a bomber's paradise '', the Britisher had said with frank grimness.

The question arose as to whether a frank discussion of that danger with the Soviet leader had not become urgent.

Suppose they both had ventured into realms which their colleagues thought infidel: is this the way gentlemen settle frank differences of opinion??

Many had an uninhibited, often irreverent style ; their frank depictions of nudity, sex, profanity, and politics had no parallel outside their precursors, the pornographic and even more obscure " Tijuana bibles ".

Originally his work focused on technique-some argue that it had that focus at the cost of relevance, especially in Rain ( Regen, 1929 ), a 10-minute short filmed over 2 years which features impressive cinematography and a number of ' characters ' but no information about them aside from what was visible, and in The Bridge ( De Brug, 1928 ), which showed a frank admiration of engineering and also featured a number of " characters " but again did not give any information about them.

Philby admired the strength of her political convictions and later recalled that at their first meeting: " frank and direct person, Litzi came out and asked me how much money I had.

Pius II had a sincere, loving nature, frank and naïve even in his aberrations and defects.

The successful campaign was based on the economic improvements achieved ; the slogan " Life's Better Under the Conservatives " was matched by Macmillan's own remark, '" indeed let us be frank about it — most of our people have never had it so good ," usually paraphrased as " You've never had it so good.

*" Don Remigio Rodríguez y Rodriguez ", an almost catatonic, extremely frank businessman ( and the owner of Rodríguez y Rodriguez Sociedad en Comandita ) who had a proclivity for face gestures and sticking out his tongue.

Although his major works, including Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring, would not be free of the label of obscenity until 1962, their themes and stylistic innovations had already exerted a major influence on succeeding generations of American writers, and paved the way for sexually frank 1960s novels by John Updike, Philip Roth, Gore Vidal, John Rechy and William Styron.

Bosley Crowther, in a " Critics ' Pick " review, called the film a " frank and ferocious social drama that makes the eyes pop and the modest cheek burn "; he had comments on several of the performances:

It appears that a frank conversation with his pugnacious Permanent Secretary, Sir Alexander Cadogan brought Halifax to the sharp realisation that the road to appeasement had taken Britain into a series of concessions that were unwise, and that were unlikely to secure the necessary pacification of Germany.

Although Foxe had written Norfolk " a remarkably frank letter " about the injudiciousness of his course, after Norfolk's condemnation, he and Alexander Nowell ministered to the prisoner until his execution, which Foxe attended, on 2 June 1572.

The Mulready illustration was effectively a very elaborate frank indicating that postage had been pre-paid.

Since, after Peace's arrest, she had been in possession of a certain amount of stolen property, it was easier no doubt to persuade her to be frank.

Woods had several scrapes with the South African Security Police regarding editorial matters and on numerous occasions ruffled the feathers of Prime Minister B. J. Vorster in frank, face-to-face exchanges regarding the content of Dispatch editorials.

Macmillan and Ormsby-Gore had been attempting to achieve a test-ban treaty with the Russians for the past ten years, and won Kennedy over through letters from Macmillan and frank discussions between Ormsby-Gore and Kennedy.

* In his autobiography Mark Twain describes the time he met Glyn, when they had a wide-ranging and frank discussion of " nature's laws " and other matters not to be repeated.

However the second series was felt to be too " raunchy " for the sensibilities of a public television audience, especially as the first had received a lot of complaints from the public in areas outside the larger cities for its frank portrayal of sex, drugs and rock ' n ' roll.

Sloan's work had an honest humane-ness, a frank sympathy, he refused to flatten lower-class New Yorkers into stereotypes of misery, and his strong sense of the moments in which ordinary people are seen unawares, or isolated, was to deeply affect the leading artist of the next generation, Edward Hopper.

He had not been frank about the new temporary-partition possibility, leaving everyone wondering what, exactly, they were voting for in the main Bill, when it might be seriously altered by the as-yet-unseen Amending Bill that was to be launched in the House of Lords.

Edmund Hillary was one of those most opposed to the change, but was soon won round by Hunt's personality and frank admission that the change had been badly handled.