The German's words worked on the newspaperman like a reprieve from an odious duty.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

He had yet to meet Harold Arlen, for although they had `` collaborated '' on `` Satan's Li'l Lamb '', Mercer and Harburg had worked from a lead sheet the composer had furnished them.

While Arlen and Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked also with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues.

Arlen, too, worked on other projects at the same time with old friend Ted Koehler.

Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.

I worked for a day on this plainly ridiculous assignment and consulted several of my own well-informed sources.

Attorney Shearn had worked on this for two years and had succeeded in getting a report supporting his stand from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

That fall he submitted to Professor Baker the first acts and outlines of the following acts of several plays, six of them, according to some of his associates, and he also worked on a play that he first called Niggertown, the material for which he had collected during the summer at home.

Affirmatively Baker worked on the premise that `` young men spontaneously prefer to be decent, and that opportunities for wholesome recreation are the best possible cure for irregularities in conduct which arise from idleness and the baser temptations ''.

The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.

Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.

I worked on the Schuylkill Expressway and if it had not been for the big trucks carrying rock and concrete there wouldn't be an Expressway.

Step Aside ( Direct Rhythm-Wily Widow ) has worked in 2:32 on the half-mile track and shows promise.

Sam Caton's Butterwyn ( Scotch Victor-Butler Wyn ), a light bay filly, knows nothing but trot and has worked on the half-mile in 2:30-:36.

Each cutting tool will operate best at a given speed, depending on the material worked.

You might try providing standard vacation time off but make the vacation pay depend on the number of hours worked in the previous year.

The grocery the youth worked for soon tired of his depressing effect on customers, most of whom were sufficiently neurotic without the threat of incubi, and let him go.

About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).

It was his brag that he could beat everybody at anything, but especially at fighting, and he once took on the manager of his club and worked him over thoroughly with his fists.

Whitey Herzog, performing in right as the Orioles fielded possibly their strongest team of the spring, worked Keegan for a base on balls.

A person who has mastered great amounts of knowledge of the grammars, rules, & language of an art-form are adepts ( Daksha ), whereas those who have worked through the whole system and journeyed ahead of these to become a law unto themselves is called a Mahana.

He was clad in silk and velvet, with the royal lions of Aquilonia worked in gold upon his rich jupon, and the crown of Aquilonia shone on his square-cut black mane ; but the great sword at his side seemed more natural to him than the regal accoutrements.

He settled in nearby Terrebonne and worked on completing his great map, a summary of his lifetime of exploring and surveying the interior of North America.

Paul stresses how honorably he conducted himself, reminding them that he had worked to earn his keep, taking great pains not to burden anyone.

Contemporaneously with Child came the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, and later and more significantly Cecil Sharp who worked in the early 20th century to preserve a great body of English rural traditional song, music and dance, under the aegis of what became and remains the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ).

Fichte then worked as a private tutor in Zürich for two years, which was a time of great contentment for him.

Not being under any obligation to lecture, Jacob seldom did so, but together with his brother worked at their great dictionary.

He acknowledges owing a great debt to the French New Wave and has stated that " the French New Wave has influenced all filmmakers who have worked since, whether they saw the films or not.

In 1991 Palin worked as producer and actor in the film American Friends based upon a real event in the life of his great grandfather, a fellow at St John's College, Oxford.

Errett Bishop, in his 1967 work < cite > Foundations of Constructive Analysis </ cite >, worked to dispel these fears by developing a great deal of traditional analysis in a constructive framework.

Most of the buildings are named for historical Paramount executives or the many great artists that worked at Paramount over the years.

Julius extended his patronage to the great Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whom he brought to Rome as his maestro di cappella, Giorgio Vasari, who supervised the design of the Villa Giulia, and to Michelangelo, who worked there.

Among the great historians who worked at the monastery, in this period there is Erchempert, whose Historia Langobardorum Beneventanorum is a fundamental chronicle of the ninth-century Mezzogiorno.

" Kuhl, who later worked as a floor sweeper for Bendix Corporation in Mishawaka, Indiana, added that Patton was " a great general " and added that " I think at the time it happened, he was pretty well worn out himself.

During this time, she worked as a hostess at The Ivy restaurant and lived in a Malibu rental house, which burned down during the great Malibu fires of fall 1993.

Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours and sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue and yellow.

Maurice did not become an actor but worked for most of his life as a manager and agent for various theaters and performers, frequently managing his mother's career in her later years, but rarely with great success.

:" The expense of horse labour, from the increased value of the animal and the charge of his keeping, being an object of great importance, it is recommended that, upon all sizable farms, that is to say, where two hundred acres m², or upwards, of grain are sown, the machine should be worked by wind, unless where local circumstances afford the conveniency of water.

Not until the first decade of the next century, when the great ( and popular ) fantasist Maxfield Parrish worked his magic on the figure, would Pierrot be comfortably naturalized in America.

One of the Investigators working on the program was Tim Berners-Lee and to a great degree through his influence, working with the program managers, the effort worked to create technologies and demonstrations for what is now called the Semantic Web.

In addition to the piano solo repertoire, Clementi wrote a great deal of other music, including several recently pieced together, long worked on but slightly unfinished symphonies that are gradually becoming accepted by the musical establishment as being very fine works.

The two had previously worked together on the comedy hit Trading Places ( 1983 ); however, Landis later recalled the differences in working with Murphy on the two movies: " The guy on Trading Places was young and full of energy and curious and funny and fresh and great.

The languages of some fictional worlds have been worked out in great detail, with grammatical rules and large vocabularies, such as J. R. R. Tolkien's Elvish languages, and the Klingon language of Star Trek.

However, even this notion required a great deal of research work and experimentation in engineering and hydrodynamics before a practical design could be worked out.