When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

But his opposition hardened and by 1579, in The School Of Abuse, he was ready to banish all `` players ''.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

It was late, and Blackman was ready to go to sleep, but Lewis was not.

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.

The Congo should have been mandated, because it was not ready for independence.

She was ready to kill the beef, dress it out, and with vegetables from her garden was going to can soup, broth, hash, and stew against the winter.

Last week it opened at the J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau gallery in Los Angeles.

Soon he was ready to go into a three-dimensional figure in clay.

Now, driving the horse and sulky borrowed from Mynheer Schuyler, he felt as if every bone was topped by burning oil and that every muscle was ready to dissolve into jelly and leave his big body helpless and unable to move.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

I was ready to jump but when Ma said she'd get the whisky it surprised him like it surprised me, and he ran down.

It was the doctor, dressed and ready for the expedition to the market, and Alex was obliged to prepare himself in haste.

When Alex entered his room, the doctor was already preparing a nest in the straw case, six eggs ready for the hen's attentions.

There was one time, however, when his face clouded and he suddenly blurted, `` Why did my brother commit suicide ''??

It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

If such a paragon of perfection as Palmer could commit such a scoring sacrilege, there was hope left for all.

* A defendant could argue that since he was drunk, he could not form the specific intent to commit assault.

Whether this was a wise policy or not, it caused the Roman legionaries to look down on their emperor as one who was prepared to commit unsoldierly conduct.

Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.

During the same year, though, Caligula was criticized for executing people without full trials and for forcing his helper Macro to commit suicide.

Defoe was amazed that a man as gifted as Harley left vital state papers lying in the open, and warned that he was almost inviting an unscrupulous clerk to commit treason ; his warnings were fully justified by the William Gregg affair.

One factor in the Red Wings ' decline was the end of the old " development " system, which allowed Adams to get young prospects to commit to playing for Detroit as early as their 16th birthday.

With no one coming to Spiru's defense, he viewed the situation as hopeless and feared that Yugoslav domination of his nation was imminent, which caused him to commit suicide in November.

One of the positive results of the campaign was GAR ( Golden Agri-Resources ), the world's second largest palm oil production company, deciding to commit itself to forest conservation.

Hitler took charge in Munich, where Röhm was arrested ; he gave Röhm the choice to commit suicide or be shot.

Unlike with Windows 3. 1, IBM did not have access to the source code for Windows 95 and was unwilling to commit the time and resources to emulate the moving target of the Win32 API.

France was allied with Russia and so was ready to commit to war against the German Empire.

Following his Washington visit Holt went on to London and in a speech there given on 7 July he was sharply critical of the UK, France and other U. S. allies that had refused to commit troops to the Vietnam War.

As of 2008 Virginia was one of only five states requiring imminent danger in order to involuntarily commit someone.

Japan was the primary financier of the Gulf War, yet received major criticism in some US circles for its refusal to commit actual military support.

But, in 1915, the proposal was rejected due to the reluctance of the moderates to commit to such a radical course of action.

Later, Carson told Jasper O ' Farrell that he regretted killing the men, but that the act was only one such that Frémont ordered him to commit.

The party was less successful in the 1977 elections, in which it won 4, 396 votes, and in 1980 Kahane was sentenced to six months in prison for his involvement in a plan to commit an " act of provocation " on the Temple Mount.

The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.

Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

) The film was called The Diet of Worms, which I felt was just what Letch deserved.

It was a `` potboiler '' made on a `` shoestring '' and not the sort of film I like, as all I had to do was look blank and scream a great deal.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??

This discovery of Melies was vastly more important than his sometimes dazzling, magician's tricks produced on film.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

When arrested, he had the submarine secrets on a roll of candid camera film as well as anti-submarine secrets in Christmas gift wrapping, it was testified.

He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.

And it was interesting to observe that B.B.C.'s television film on Christmas Eve was The Bells Of St. Mary's.

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.