It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.

Then, a little later, Shilkret discovered there was no one to play the brief celesta solo during the slow section, so he hastily asked Gershwin if he might play the solo ; Gershwin said he could and so he briefly participated in the actual recording.

In 1950, van Vogt was briefly appointed as head of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics operation in California.

Mary Peabody Mann served as a French instructor for a time. The school was briefly famous, and then infamous, because of his original methods.

On January 14, 1863, the Alcotts received a telegram that Louisa was sick ; Bronson immediately went to bring her home, briefly meeting Abraham Lincoln while there.

Albert the Bear (; c. 1100 – 18 November 1170 ) was the first Margrave of Brandenburg ( as Albert I ) from 1157 to his death and was briefly Duke of Saxony between 1138 and 1142.

Under Sargon and his successors, Akkadian language was briefly imposed on neighboring conquered states such as Elam.

The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.

His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.

* Eirene Komnene ( born c. 1169 ), who was briefly married to Alexios Komnenos, a son of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos by Theodora Batatzina.

The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was Pericles ; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolution towards the end of the Peloponnesian War.

Ayckbourn's career was briefly interrupted when he was called for National Service.

Sometime between 1763 and 1764 Salieri suffered the death of both parents and was briefly taken in by an anonymous brother, a monk in Padua, and then for unknown reasons in 1765 or 1766 he became the ward of a Venetian nobleman named Giovanni Mocenigo ( which Giovanni is at this time unknown ), a member of the powerful and well connected Mocenigo family.

He was at length arrested on November 3 under charges of insubordination and treason, and held briefly in Warren, Texas, but his resignation was accepted on November 11 and he was allowed to return to Arkansas.

Fricktal, ceded in 1802 by Austria via Napoleonic France to the Helvetic Republic, was briefly a separate Swiss canton under a Statthalter (' Lieutenant '), but on 9 March 1803 was incorporated in the canton of Aargau.

According to this view, the poem says that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.

When Jackson returned briefly to England in 1889 to marry, Housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

The controversy caused by the fact that the film was shot in English was the reason he was expelled from the film school.

Towards 57, Agrippina was expelled from the palace and went to live in a riverside estate in Misenum.

In the beginning of the next year, the child Danylo was again expelled from Halych but Andrew denied to give assistance to him because the child prince's opponent, Prince Volodymyr III Igorevych had bribed him.

In August 1219, his younger son, Coloman, who had been crowned King of Halych, was expelled from his kingdom by Prince Mstilav of Novgorod.

When at last successful, he was excommunicated by Pope Callixtus II for having expelled the monks of Saint-Gilles, who had aided his enemies.

In 510 BC, Cleomenes I ( Aeschylus was 15 at the time ) expelled the sons of Peisistratus from Athens, and Cleisthenes came to power.

Later writers were shocked by the incest: in Hyginus, the day Aeolus learned that one of his sons, Macareus, had committed incest with his sister Canace he expelled Macareus and threw the child born of this incestuous union to the dogs, and sent his daughter a sword by which she was to kill herself.

The Algarve was dominated completely by a muladí coalition led by Sa ' id ibn Mal, who had expelled the Arabs from Beja, and the lords of Ocsónoba, Yahya ibn Bakr, and of Niebla, Ibn Ufayr.

The National Cartoonists Society ( NCS ) convened an ethics hearing, and Fisher was expelled for the forgery from the same organization that he had helped found ; Fisher's scheme had backfired in spectacular fashion.

Montgomery attended St Paul's School and then the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he was almost expelled for rowdiness and violence.

He was expelled from Harvard twice: first for spending all his money partying with a vaudeville troupe, and then, after having been readmitted, for his " irresponsibility and lack of interest.

The Batavi were still mentioned in 355 during the reign of Constantius II ( 317-361 ), when their island was already dominated by the Salii, a Frankish tribe that had sought Roman protection there in 297 after having been expelled from their own country by the Saxons.

" It has been assumed they merged with the Salii shortly before or after and, after having been expelled by another tribe ( it has been proposed this was the Chamavi ), shared their subsequent migration to Toxandria.

The Latin clergy were expelled after the city was captured by Saladin, the sultan of Egypt and Syria.

Then the Greek army counter-attacked and defeated the Bulgarians at Kilkis-Lahanas ( Kukush ), after which the mostly Bulgarian town was destroyed and its population expelled.

Depending on what terms one uses to define the end, the movement extended until 1821 ( when the Spanish were expelled from mainland Chile ) or 1826 ( when the last Spanish troops surrendered and Chiloé was incorporated to the Chilean republic ).

Due to problems with Pinochet, Leigh was expelled from the junta in 1978 and replaced by General Fernando Matthei.

José Antonio Saco, one of Cuba's foremost thinkers, was expelled from Cuba.

As a result of that incident ( and / or of a visit paid with some schoolmates to a local brothel ) he was expelled from the school and had to leave the city ( 1725 ).

However, in 1833, Missouri settlers brutally expelled the Latter Day Saints from Jackson County, and the church was unable via a paramilitary expedition to recover the land.

Having murdered her husband, the prince of Colchis, she was expelled by her subjects and placed by her father on the solitary island of Aeaea.

On the next outflow of water, his raft was expelled, and Odysseus was able to recover it and paddle away to safety.