Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

Go, tell his aged mother that her son Fought with a thousand foes, and he was one ''.

But his prime interest, apart from music, he insisted seriously, was his family -- his wife, daughter and son.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

The Coolidges' life, after the death of their son, was quieter than ever.

Even when Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning for her son, she reached out to help other people in trouble.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

Mr. McKinley, for all his sprawling and his easy familiarity, was completely alert to his son, eyes always on the still face, jumping to anticipate Scotty's desires.

His first desire was to create a mother and son alone in the universe.

her son was dead.

But at the end of the sitting, when Michelangelo showed him the quick, free drawings, with the mother roughed in, holding her son, the model grasped what Michelangelo was after, and promised to speak to his friends.

Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.

Carpenters all wanted steady work and at the moment every mother's son for twenty miles around that could hammer nails for twenty-five dollars a day was working on the school job.

When Richard's parents told him they wanted to take him to an orthodontist -- a dentist who specializes in realigning teeth and jaws -- their young son was interested.

O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.

Massoud was posthumously named " National Hero " by the order of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.

It was the scene of the legend of Hero and Leander.

In 2002, the anime character was acclaimed as an Asian Hero in a special feature survey conducted by Time Asia magazine.

thumb On 22 April 2002, on the special issue of Asian Hero in TIME Magazine, Doraemon was selected as one of the 22 Asian Heroes.

Being the only anime character selected, Doraemon was described as " The Cuddliest Hero in Asia ".

Rashomon was also remade as The Outrage ( 1964 ), and inspired films with " Rashomon effect " storytelling methods, such as Andha Naal ( 1954 ), The Usual Suspects ( 1995 ) and Hero ( 2002 ).

GORDON BANKS: A Hero Who Could Fly was optioned by BBC Drama.

Various later editions of RuneQuest, the narrative role-playing game HeroQuest ( the first edition of which was published as Hero Wars ), and the video game King of Dragon Pass were also set in Glorantha, as were several prominent fan efforts.

Stafford was greatly influenced by the ideas on mythology of Joseph Campbell, and echoes of Campbell's work are to be found in many aspects of Glorantha ; for instance the story of the " God Learners " can be seen as an exercise on the implications of Campbell's idea of a unifying monomyth, and the story of Prince Argrath an exploration of Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Hero was loved by Leander, a youth who lived at Abydos, a town on the Asian side of the channel.

They could not marry because Hero was bound by a vow of chastity, and so every night Leander swam from Asia to Europe, guided by a lamp in Hero's tower.

As a joint venture between Hero Games and Iron Crown Enterprises, a stand-alone HERO System Rulebook was published alongside the fourth edition of Champions.

In 2001, a reconstituted Hero Games was formed under the leadership of Steven S. Long, who had written several books for the earlier version of the system.

In The Heroes of Olympus story " The Lost Hero ," there was a reference to the mythical Jason when Jason Grace and his friends encounter Medea.

Only posthumously did he receive the praise and appreciation which had escaped him in life: he was awarded a hero's funeral and numerous medals by the USSR, including the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest distinction awarded for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.

She has been named one of the " Best Doctors in the United States " and was chosen by Time as a " Hero of Medicine.

Chernenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1976, in 1981 and in 1984 he was awarded Hero of the Socialist Labour: on the latter occasion, Minister of Defence Ustinov underlined his rule as an " outstanding political figure, a loyal and unwavering continuer of the cause of the great Lenin "; in 1981 he was awarded with the Bulgarian Order of Georgi Dimitrov and in 1982 he received the Lenin Prize for his " Human Rights in Soviet Society.

Voroshilov was awarded a second medal of Hero of the Soviet Union 1968.

Mikhail Kalashnikov was twice named Hero of Socialist Labour.

On his 90th birthday on 10 November 2009, Kalashnikov was named a " Hero of the Russian Federation " and presented with a medal by President Dmitry Medvedev who lauded him for creating " the brand every Russian is proud of.

He returned to Alexandria, and began determinedly studying the works of Aristotle under Olympiodorus the Elder ( he also began studying mathematics during this period as well with a teacher named Heron ( no relation to Hero of Alexandria who was also known as Heron ).

McDaniels was also featured in the 2008 video game, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, making appearances in the songs " Walk this Way " and " King of Rock ".