A sympathetic friend made poultices of raw potato parings, which she said was the best and quickest way to draw out the `` heat ''.

Then he called in his friend Walton and turned over the problem to him, with instructions to work out what was best -- provided it didn't pile unnecessary burdens on the President.

I don't know if I can manage it tonight or tomorrow, but I'll try my best, my friend.

`` I do my best '', said Mr. Skyros earnestly, `` just for you, my friend.

`` Black is Gilborn's best friend ''.

Poirot was buried at Styles, and his funeral was arranged by his best friend Hastings and Hastings ' daughter Judith.

While Poirot's actual death and funeral occurred in " Curtain ", years after his retirement from active investigation, it was not the first time Hastings attended the funeral of his best friend.

The sixty-odd club members were the leading business tycoons of Western Pennsylvania and included among their number Frick's best friend, Andrew Mellon, his attorneys Philander Knox and James Hay Reed, as well as Frick's business partner, Carnegie.

Franz Kemmerich had enlisted in the army for World War I along with his best friend and classmate, Bäumer.

Andersson currently performs with his own band of 16 musicians, BAO ; " Benny Anderssons Orkester " (" Benny Andersson's orchestra "), utilising the vocal talents of fellow Swedes Helen Sjöholm ( from Kristina from Duvemåla ) and Tommy Körberg ( of Chess fame ), with lyrics to new material sometimes written by his song-writing partner and best friend of 40 years, Björn Ulvaeus.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

Ten the hard way is " a hard ten " or " a woman's best friend ".

He married again, to Johanna's best friend named Friederica Wilhelmine Waldeck but commonly known as Minna.

2010 saw the show's first lesbian storyline as Sophie Webster develops an attraction towards her best friend Sian Powers.

He was the best drummer I had ever played with and for many years, my closest friend.

In her sophomore year at Rutgers, Flockhart met aspiring actress Jane Krakowski, the best friend of her roommate.

* Dogwatching ( 1986 ) — an in-depth study of " man's best friend ".

Sadly, Minkowski — Hilbert's " best and truest friend " — died prematurely of a ruptured appendix in 1909.

He was content to live the quiet life of a country vicar in Dymchurch-under-the-Wall under the patronage of Sir Charles Cobtree, the father of his best friend Anthony Cobtree, until his beautiful young Spanish wife Imogene was seduced by and eloped with Nicholas Tappitt, whom Dr. Syn had considered a close friend.

They stated that while dogs are man's best friend, that if the dog from Duck Hunt is man's best friend, they'd hate to meet their enemy.

Not long after his mother's death, Danny and his best friend ran away to Florida.

This two-part bridge is best described by Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, in his `` Travels In New-England And New-York '', published in New Haven in 1821.

But the reputation he had during his lifetime belies this idea: his academic peers at Yale University considered the " amateur " Whorf to be the best man available to take over Sapir's graduate seminar in Native American linguistics while Sapir was on sabbatical in 1937 – 38.

Norfolk is perhaps best known as the site of the Yale Summer School of Music – Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, which hosts an annual chamber music concert series in " the Music Shed ," a performance hall located on the Ellen Battell Stoeckel estate to the west of the village green.

As a junior, White won the Yale literary prize for the best essay, writing on the topic " The Greater Distinctions in Statesmanship ", a great shock to the campus as a senior traditionally wrote the winning essay.

They are perhaps best known for their rivalry with Yale, known as " The Game ".

While Harvard's football team is no longer one of the country's best as it often was a century ago during football's early days ( it won the Rose Bowl in 1920 ), both it and Yale have influenced the way the game is played.

It is named after Elihu Yale, best known for being the prime benefactor of Yale University.

Linus Yale, Jr. ( 4 April 1821-25 December 1868 ) was an American mechanical engineer and manufacturer, best known for his inventions of locks, especially the cylinder lock.

At Yale, he won the prize for best oralist in the Thurmond Arnold Moot Court Competition and served as a note editor on the Yale Law Journal.

Rory's friendships with long-time best friend Lane Kim ( Keiko Agena ), a second-generation Korean American from a strict Christian home, and Paris Geller ( Liza Weil ), a friend / rival at both Chilton and Yale, play strongly in the show.

The following year ( when Edmund left for Yale University ), William moved with his mother to Paris at the age of 15 to receive personal instruction in the piano and was taught by some of the best music teachers of the 20th century, including Nadia Boulanger.

The Bollingen Prize for Poetry, which is currently awarded every two years by Beinecke Library of Yale University, is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.

In the 2012 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report, Rotman was placed as the 13th best business school in North America, ahead of NYU Stern and Yale School of Management, while in the 2010 BusinessWeek MBA rankings, Rotman placed 8th in the best international business schools category ( outside the US ).

In the 2012 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report, which indexes business schools based on their reputation with employers, the school was placed as the second best business school in Canada and the 13th best business school in North America, ahead of NYU Stern and Yale School of Management.

The Wall Street Journal ranks it as the fourth best high school in the United States, as measured by student admission rates to exclusive colleges, and Worth magazine ranked it seventh out of all the nation's high schools based on the proportion of graduates attending Harvard, Yale and Princeton Universities.

He was a central figure in musical life in New Haven, Connecticut in the late 19th century, and is best remembered as the undergraduate teacher of Charles Ives while the composer attended Yale University.

In September 2007, Sciences Po was rated the 8th best university in the world by the annual higher education survey conducted by the École des Mines de Paris thus placing it above both Oxford and Yale.

He attends Yale along with his girlfriend Chloe ( Leslie Bibb ) and his best friend Will ( Hill Harper ).

A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his or her field.

It was founded in 1950 as a state school on a site at Crispin Lane and named after Elihu Yale, best known for being the prime benefactor of Yale University, and whose family name derives from the nearby Welsh commote of Iâl.