When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant Rock, official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and gloated, `` Seems funny that them Burnsides never took time to leave their John-Henry up thar ''.

Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

The Mercers took up residence in Brooklyn, and Mercer found a regular job in Wall Street `` misplacing stocks and bonds ''.

but unfortunately the rabbit, on no grounds at all, took up toward this neutral object an attitude of disapproval and that made it for the first time, and in the only intelligible sense, bad.

Another force flanked the company and took up a position on a hill to the rear.

She took refuge on a tongue of land extending into a gully, crouched at the base of a thorn tree, and waited for them to come up.

My man, he won't be around a little while, he just fixed me up with this stuff they took out of the Elite.

Madden took up this point with Garth, who shrugged it off.

He took several large swallows, recollected that Docherty had gone up another flight, and decided he would be wise to cover himself by finding him.

He took up a white sheet of paper, dark with single-spaced data.

Meanwhile, fishermen took advantage of them to pull up whoppers.

Kimmell ordered the driver to back up, watched the children safely across and was approaching the car when it suddenly `` took off at high speed '', he said, narrowly missing him.

And it was clear that Adrien was not mistaken, for both Small and Cromwell took no step toward aiding in the sending up of the new topgallant mast till Philip Spencer had given the signal to obey.

Sometimes she took the path that winds up around my cottage to the walk at the edge of the cliff.

In Tokyo Richard took up a life similar to that which he had lived in New York, except that he had replaced his biwa with a friend.

It took him a few seconds to put his thoughts in order, and then he got up from the bunk where he had been resting, sleeplessly.

Under Lincoln's leadership, the Union set up a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, took control of the border slave states at the start of the war, gained control of communications with gunboats on the southern river systems, and tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.

It seems that the Greeks took advantage of the observations of some older civilizations in the East and managed to work them up rationally.

In April 1834, Johnston took up farming in Texas, but enlisted as a private in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence against the Republic of Mexico in 1836.

Pillow took up a position at nearby Clarksville, Tennessee and did not move into the fort itself until February 7, 1862.

Like many other cross-channel linguistic acquisitions, many Britons readily took this up and followed this rule themselves, while the Americans took a simpler rule and applied it rigorously.

The 1975 movie Inserts directed by John Byrum about a pornographic film production, which starred Richard Dreyfuss and was originally released with an X rating, took its name from the double meaning that " insert " both refers to this film technique ( often used in pornographic filmmaking ) and to sexual intercourse.

Using The Movies, Alex Chan, a French resident with no previous filmmaking experience, took four days to create The French Democracy, a short political film about the 2005 civil unrest in France.

After Beware of a Holy Whore, Fassbinder took an eight-month break from filmmaking.

The film was written and directed by the Canadian filmmaking team Astron-6, debuting October 21, 2011, at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival where it took home the top prize of BEST FILM, as well as five other awards.

But Moodyson's filmmaking then took a radically different direction.

As low-budget and non-union filmmaking took hold in the USA, production companies would provide day-long buffet spreads to make up for long hours and lower wages.

Although this space was much larger, not much filmmaking took place there, and in 1984 what remained of Warhol's various enterprises, no longer including filming actitivies, moved to 22 East 33rd Street, a conventional office building.

" With regards to the Weinsteins also producing Martin Scorsese's film Gangs of New York ( 2002 ), Gilliam stated: " Marty said almost the exact same quote I said, without us knowing it: ' They took the joy out of filmmaking.

The Festival took its name, Punto de Vista ( Point of View ), as a tribute to Vigo, the first director to refer, back in the 30 ’ s, to a “ documented point of view ” as a distinctive sign of a form of filmmaking which commits the filmmaker.

His filmmaking career started in 1984 with a short film and then took off in the 1990 ’ s.

After his retirement, his four sons took over the running of his film studio, however, today, the studio is a vast, decaying premises and only 30 % of it is used for filmmaking.

A distant relative provided free board and lodging, and Erlang prepared for and took the University of Copenhagen entrance examination in 1896, and passed with distinction.

The work of the IOC increasingly focused on the planning the 1896 Athens Games, and de Coubertin played a background role as Greek authorities took the lead in logistical organisation of the Games in Greece itself, offering technical advice such as a sketch of a design of a velodrome to be used in cycling competitions.

He also took the lead in planning the program of events, although to his disappointment neither polo, football, or boxing were included in 1896.

The British Humanist Association took that name in 1967, but had developed from the Union of Ethical Societies which had been founded by Stanton Coit in 1896.

The world première performance of La bohème took place in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and was conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.

George Bernard Shaw, who criticised the play perhaps more harshly than he did any of Shakespeare's other works, took aim at what he saw as the defects of the final act in his 1937 Cymbeline Refinished ; as early as 1896, he had complained about the absurdities of the play to Ellen Terry, then preparing to act Imogen.

The first " adoptee " was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ( b. 1863, not descended from Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d ' Este ), who took the name Austria-Este and in 1896 became the heir presumptive of the Habsburg Empire, but was murdered on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo.

Events took place on 9 April, 10 April, and 11 April 1896.

Chen took and passed the county-level imperial examination ( 鄉試 ) in 1896, and succeeded in the provincial-level examination ( 省試 ) the following year.

His management of the abortive education proposals of 1896 were thought to show a disinclination for the continuous drudgery of parliamentary management, yet he had the satisfaction of seeing the passage of a bill providing Ireland with an improved system of local government, and took an active role in the debates on the various foreign and domestic questions that came before parliament between 1895 to 1900.

In 1896, Schlesinger took a conducting position at the opera house in Breslau – a job found for him by Mahler.

They took place in the Panathinaiko Stadium, which had already hosted the 1896 Games and the earlier Zappas Olympics of 1870 and 1875.

By 1896, the Democratic Party took up many of the People's Party's causes at the national level, and the party began to fade from national prominence.

The silverite movement took control of the Democratic party in 1896 under William Jennings Bryan.

In February 1896, they finally negotiated terms with Renoir, who was the will's executor, under which they took thirty-eight of the paintings to the Luxembourg.

The reserve power of dismissal has never been used in Canada, although other reserve powers have been used to force the prime minister to resign on two occasions: The first took place in 1896, when the prime minister, Sir Charles Tupper, refused to step down after his party did not win a majority of the House of Commons seats in the 1896 election, leading the governor general, the Earl of Aberdeen, to no longer recognize Tupper as prime minister and disapprove of several appointments Tupper had recommended.

He became vice-president of the Volksraad in 1893, a member of the executive council in 1896, and took part in many colonial and interstate conferences.

The American Federation of Musicians was founded in 1896, at which time it took over from an older and looser organization of local musicians unions, the National League of Musicians.

The initial and primary demarcation, a joint Afghan-British survey and mapping effort, covered 800 miles and took place from 1894 to 1896.

Mulock remained in Opposition through two subsequent elections until 1896 when the Liberals under Wilfrid Laurier took power.

As soon as he learned of the Rentgen's discovery of unknown rays passing through the wood, paper, insulators and thin metals, leaving traces on the photographic plate, Pupin took a vacuum tube with which he studied the passage of electricity through rarefied gases and on January 2, 1896 made successful images.

He took an active part in the foundation of Victoria University, of which he was vice-chancellor from 1886 to 1890 and from 1894 to 1896.

He first played as a goalkeeper but played initially as a stop-gap but later as the mainstay centre-half for the Old Carthusians ( the club for ex-Charterhouse boys ) ( appearing against them in the 1896 London Charity Cup Final, Clifton Association ( the Association which took in Bristol and its environs and with whom he played in the inaugural Gloucestershire Cup ), as well as the Corinthians and captained England twice against Wales in 1894 and 1895 ( when the team consisted entirely of amateur players ).