He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

Dan asked Hez, who had limped back from his team to hold the notched-stick chair braces in place while his boys swung up the tailgate and tied it tight at the ends.

He had asked.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Their afflictions centered on one maddening difficulty: Miriam held up the divorce proceedings that she herself had asked for.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

Victor Berger, the panjandrum of Wisconsin Socialism and member of Congress, had asked Paula Steichen to translate some of his German editorials into English.

Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.

The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.

One of the girl students, sitting by while I ate the thick soup, asked me if I had a sleeping bag.

Instead, he went down to New York and submitted Welcome To Our City to the Theatre Guild, which had asked him to let them have a look at it after Professor Baker had recommended it highly.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

This seems to refer, not to the loan Richard had asked for, but to a proposed bargain with Shakespeare.

He asked Quiney to find out whether the money had been paid and, if not, to send to the lodging of Sir Edward and entreat him to pay what he owed.

There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.

It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.

I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.

She asked if I had other advice and, heady with success, I rushed it in, I hope not too late.

After a pause, during which he studied Scotty's face as if Scotty were not there and could not study him too, Mr. McKinley would ask the same questions he had asked downstairs.

`` Doesn't it ever bother you '', Warren had asked, `` to have people always asking you about your hands ''??

The Vice President had called and asked if he could see the Secretary at his home.

Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on Life in Hell but instead decided to create a new set of characters.

Groening had been called to pitch a series of animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show, and had intended to present an adaptation of his Life in Hell comic strip.

The family was crudely drawn, because Groening had submitted basic sketches to the animators, assuming they would clean them up ; instead, they just traced over his drawings.

Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on his comic strip Life in Hell but instead decided to create a new set of characters.

Groening had been called in to pitch a series of animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show, and had intended to present an adaptation of his Life in Hell comic strip.

My father was an athletic, creative, intelligent filmmaker and writer, and the only thing he had in common with Homer was a love of donuts " Although Groening has stated in several interviews that Homer's namesake is his father, he also claimed in several 1990 interviews that a character in the 1939 Nathanael West novel The Day of the Locust was the inspiration for naming Homer.

The family was crudely drawn because Groening had submitted basic sketches to the animators, assuming they would clean them up ; instead, they just traced over his drawings.

Groening had been invited to pitch a series of shorts based on his comic Life in Hell, but instead decided to create a new set of characters.

Groening had been called in to pitch a series of animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show and had intended to present an adaptation of his Life in Hell comic strip.

The family was crudely drawn, because Groening had submitted basic sketches to the animators, assuming they would clean them up ; instead, they just traced over his drawings.

Groening describes Rusty Nails as being a sweet clown whose show sometimes had a Christian message, but whose name scared Groening.

" Groening stated that he had originally intended him to be called Louis Lane and be " obsessed and tormented by " Lois Lane, but was out of the room when the writers named him.

Later in the production of that season, the producers had it changed to brown, because they thought that his hair looked like his skin ; as well, during an artistic convention of the show, Groening stated that he wanted only the Simpsons to have yellow hair.

Groening, who had not paid much attention to television since his own childhood, was unaware that title sequences of such length were uncommon by that time.

Groening described the inspiration for Flanders as " just a guy who was truly nice, that Homer had no justifiable reason to loathe, but then did ".

Mr. Largo, Lisa's music teacher, was partly inspired by a music teacher Matt Groening had as a kid.

When they pitched the series to Fox in April 1998, Groening and Cohen had composed many characters and story lines ; Groening claimed they had gone " overboard " in their discussions.

At each angle of its pitch a big skylight had been fitted into the roof and all these skylights were fitted with systems of multiple screens and shades.

When he finally did he had to duck his head quickly away as the pitch came in.

Further, any successful steal on a play resulting in a wild pitch, passed ball, or balk would no longer be credited as a steal, even if the runner had started to steal before the play.

Runners would now be credited with stolen bases if they had begun the act of stealing, and the resulting pitch was wild, or a passed ball.

Captain Parker described the march discipline – " As we marched through the country of our Allies, commissars were appointed to furnish us with all manner of necessaries for man and horse ... the soldiers had nothing to do but pitch their tents, boil kettles and lie down to rest.

Ramsey had already cleared out some of the older players who had been reliant on the loyalty of the committee for their continued selection – it was well known that decorum on the pitch at club level had been just as big a factor in playing for England as ability and form.

Children were often placed at the front of this enclosure and the area had a distinctive white picket fence to keep fans off the pitch ( up until the 70's ).

On the pitch, the team had fared little better, coming close to relegation to the Third Division for the first time, but in 1983 manager John Neal put together an impressive new team for minimal outlay.

Brown nearly had the perfect game, but he hit the Giants ' Marvin Benard with a pitch in the 8th inning when Benard attempted to bunt.

In general, vibrato is a variation in pitch, whereas tremolo is a variation in volume, so the tremolo bar is actually a vibrato bar and the " Vibrolux " amps actually had a tremolo effect.

Scott, who was coming off of a 5 – 11 season, had found his new pitch and would become one of Houston's most celebrated hurlers.

Such a maritime clock had to be not only highly accurate over long time intervals, but relatively impervious to corrosion in salt air, able to tolerate wide variations in temperature and humidity and in general durable while able to function at the odd angles and pitch and yaw typical of decks under strong waves and storm tossed conditions.

Syllables with voiced initials tended to be pronounced with a lower pitch, and by the late Tang Dynasty, each of the tones had split into two registers conditioned by the initials.

Big cracks had appeared in the pitch during a very hot Saturday ’ s play and on the rest day Sunday, groundsman Jack House watered the pitch to close them up.

It initially had no stands, by the start of the 1893 – 94 season, two had been built ; one spanning the full length of the pitch on one side and the other behind the goal at the " Bradford end ".

By the mid-1950s mambo mania had reached fever pitch.

Its updated model, SL-1200MK2, released in 1978, had a stronger motor, a convenient pitch control slider for beatmatching and a stylus illuminator, which made it the long standing favourite among disc jockeys ( see " Turntablism ").

His 2007 contract with the New York Yankees had a " family plan " clause that stipulated that he not be required to go on road trips in which he was not scheduled to pitch and allowed him to leave the team between starts to be with his family.

The song was " Only the Lonely "; Orbison and Melson had earlier tried to pitch it to Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers but were turned down.

Milligan had perfect pitch.