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name and was
That girl last night, what was her name??
For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.
No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.
My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.
Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.
Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.
Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.
The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.
But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.
Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.
It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.
An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.
The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.
Her name was Esther Peter.
Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.
Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.
I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

name and Leo
Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.
In the list of popes given in the Holy See's annual directory, Annuario Pontificio, the following note is attached to the name of Pope Leo VIII ( 963 – 965 ): At this point, as again in the mid-eleventh century, we come across elections in which problems of harmonising historical criteria and those of theology and canon law make it impossible to decide clearly which side possessed the legitimacy whose factual existence guarantees the unbroken lawful succession of the successors of Saint Peter.
Leo Núñez, who was playing under an assumed name in 2011, is now officially recognized as Juan Carlos Oviedo.
Leo, whose original name was Konon, was born in Germanikeia ( Maraş / Turkey ) in the Syrian province of Commagene.
The Leonids get their name from the location of their radiant in the constellation Leo: the meteors appear to radiate from that point in the sky.
Commentators such as Leo Strauss have gone so far as to name Machiavelli as the deliberate originator of modernity itself.
* Tarasicodissa adopts the Greek name of Zeno and marries Ariadne, eldest daughter of Leo I ( approximate date ).
Norman Quentin Cook ( born Quentin Leo Cook on 16 July 1963 in Bromley, England ), also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English DJ, musician, and record producer.
He then accompanied Abbot Bruno of Toul to Rome ; there, Bruno was elected Pope, choosing the name Leo IX, and named Hildebrand as deacon and papal administrator.
On 1 April 1605, Alessandro ascended the papal throne with the name Leo XI after his uncle Pope Leo X, being then almost seventy years of age, but was taken ill immediately after his coronation and died within the month.
A capital was also used when the name is formed by two nouns in apposition, e. g. Panthera Leo or Centaurea Cyanus.
The name of Pius VI is associated with many and often unpopular attempts to revive the splendour of Pope Leo X ( 1513 – 21 ) in the promotion of art and public works ; the words Munificentia Pii VI.
In the conclave of 1823, he was the candidate of the zelanti and in spite of the active opposition of France, he was elected Pope by the Cardinals on 28 September, taking the name of Leo XII.
Pope Leo X ( 1513 – 1521 ) decreed that the use of the name Scotia be confined to referring to land that is now Scotland.
Setting out shortly after Christmas, he met with abbot Hugh of Cluny at Besançon, where he was joined by the young monk Hildebrand, who afterwards became Pope Gregory VII ; arriving in pilgrim garb at Rome in the following February, he was received with much cordiality, and at his consecration assumed the name Leo IX.
With conspiracy in the air, Michael preempted events by abdicating in favor of the general Leo the Armenian and becoming a monk ( under the name Athanasios ).
A clue is an inscription found in Lugdunum ( modern Lyons ) and dating to 458: according to Roman custom, the inscriptions were dated reporting the name of the consuls in office, who that year were Leo I and Majorian.
* Novella Maioriani 3, De defensoribus civitatum, " The Defenders of the Municipalities ", on the office of defensor civitatum ( given in Ravenna, on May 8, 458, also in the name of Leo I );
* Novella Maioriani 4, De aedificiis pubblicis, " Public Buildings ", on the preservation of the monuments of Rome ( given in Ravenna, on July 11, 458, to Aemilianus, praefectus urbi of Rome, also in the name of Leo I );
* Novella Maioriani 5, De bonis caducis sive proscriptorum, " On Abandoned Property and That of Proscribed Persons " ( given in Ravenna, on September 4, 458, to Ennodius, comes privatae largitionis, also in the name of Leo I );
* Novella Maioriani 6, De sanctimonialibus vel viduis et de successionibus earum, " Holy Maidens, Widows, and Their Succession " ( given in Ravenna, on October 26, 458, to Basilius, Praetorian prefect of Italy, also in the name of Leo I );
* Novella Maioriani 7, De curialibus et de agnatione vel distractione praediorum et de ceteris negotiis, " Decurions, Their Children and The Sale of Their Landed Estates " ( given in Ravenna, on November 6, 458, to Basilius, Praetorian prefect of Italy, also in the name of Leo I );
* Novella Maioriani 9, De adulteriis, " Adultery ", confirming that the adulterers are to be put to death ( given in Arelate, on April 17, 459, to Rogatianus, governor of Suburbicarian Tuscany, also in the name of Leo I );

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