Humphrey's tenure as mayor is noted for his efforts to fight all forms of bigotry.

One of Humphrey's speeches contained the lines " It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children ; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly ; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped ," which is sometimes described as the " liberals ' mantra.

The Senate resolution creating the position stated that any former president or former vice president serving in the Senate would be entitled to this position, though none has served since Humphrey's death in 1978, and former vice president Walter Mondale, who sought a seat in Minnesota in 2002, is the only one to have tried.

The fairly counter-intuitive view of government administration displayed by Sir Humphrey's is completely taken for granted by the civil service.

Woolley is always quick to point out the physical impossibilities of Sir Humphrey's or Hacker's mixed metaphors, with almost obsessive pedantry.

* Lady Appleby, Sir Humphrey's wife, is mentioned on occasion and seen only briefly in " Big Brother ".

He is said to have entered William Humphrey's clock-maker's shop, then opposite the hotel, and enquired who had made a certain remarkable clock.

Rob Humphrey's London: The Rough Guide suggests one of these omitted modifications is a tunnel beneath the Thames to Whitehall.

This is the law, and this Duke Humphrey's doom.

Suffolk's accusation that Humphrey was involved in necromancy with Eleanor is omitted from Act 3, Scene 1 ( ll. 47-53 ), as is Humphrey's outline of how he dealt with criminals during his time as Lord Protector ( ll. 128-132 ).

In Act 1, Scene 3, Humphrey's line " This is the law and this Duke Humphrey's doom " is given to Henry.

However, a spokesperson insisted that Humphrey would not be moving out, stating that Number 10 " is Humphrey's home and, as far as the Blairs are concerned, it will remain his home ".

Conservative MP and animal lover Alan Clark was suspicious about the way Humphrey's retirement was announced and demanded proof that the cat was still alive: " Humphrey is now a missing person.

Aaloosaktukwi or Humphrey's Peak holds particular religious significance and is associated with the deity Aaloosaka, a symbol of the Two-Horn Society, a religious group among the Hopi dating to the occupation of the Awat ’ ovi village on Antelope Mesa.

Rob Humphrey's London: The Rough Guide suggests one of these omitted modifications is a tunnel beneath the Thames to Whitehall.

It is generally thought that Dickens originally intended The Old Curiosity Shop as a short story like the others that had appeared in Master Humphrey's Clock, but after a few chapters decided to extend it into a novel.

In the portion of Master Humphrey's Clock which succeeds The Old Curiosity Shop, Master Humphrey reveals to his friends that he is in fact the character referred to as the ' single gentleman ' in that story.

Ian Humphrey's widow Di Gilcrist stated, " He is actually profiting from the experience and the stigma that the case has afforded him ... It is a sad reflection of the criminal justice system that something so black and white could be manipulated to absolve Eugene McGee of his lack of moral and ethical responsibility " Di Gilcrist subsequently complained to the legal board that McGee's actions the hit-run amounted to professional misconduct.

" Before inertia set in, he played one fascinatingly complex character, craftily directed by Nicholas Ray, in a film whose title perfectly defined Humphrey's own isolation among people.

Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels ( the other was The Old Curiosity Shop ) that Dickens published in his short-lived ( 1840 – 1841 ) weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock.

He has a bottle in his hand, and when Bink uncorks it, Humphrey's voice emits from it, with one word: " Horseman ".

Isabella's mother Maria and the Ibelins ( now closely allied to Conrad ) argued that Isabella and Humphrey's marriage was illegal, as she had been underage at the time ; underlying this was the fact that Humphrey had betrayed his wife's cause in 1186.

In the late 1920s a severe economic downturn hit Doland ; both of the town's banks closed and Humphrey's father struggled to keep his drugstore open.

Humphrey's defeat in 1960 had a profound influence on his thinking ; after the primaries he told friends that, as a relatively poor man in politics, he was unlikely to ever become President unless he served as Vice-President first.

Humphrey's contribution was chiefly financial and organizational ; funding it from the earnings of the family brace business and Managing director until he joined the RFC in 1917.

Tillyard has written of the Henry VI trilogy ; " The second part had showed us the murder of Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, the rise of York, the destruction of two of Humphrey's murderers and the enmity of the two survivors, York and Queen Margaret.

Kennedy was on stage to claim victory over McCarthy in the California primary when he was assassinated ; McCarthy was unable to overcome Humphrey's support within the party elite.

Humphrey's mother convinced Saladin not to bombard the tower in which the newly married young couple were lodged, although he continued to besiege the rest of the fortress ; Kerak was eventually relieved by King Baldwin IV.

This was the first of many of Dickens's early works adapted for the stage of the Adelphi, including The Pickwick Papers as William Leman Rede's The Peregrinations of Pickwick ; or, Boz-i-a-na, a three-act burletta first performed on 3 April 1837, Frederick Henry Yates's production of Nicholas Nickleby ; or, Doings at Do-The-Boys Hall in November and December 1838, and Edward Stirling's two-act burletta The Old Curiosity Shop ; or, One Hour from Humphrey's Clock ( November and December 1840, January 1841 ).

Assaulted by the division of Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws, Humphreys ' three brigades were demolished ; Sickles had pulled back Humphrey's reserve brigade to shore up the neighboring division ( Maj. Gen. David B. Birney ), which was the first to be attacked.

Initially, Humphrey's support of civil rights led to his being ostracized by Southern Democrats, who dominated most of the Senate leadership positions and who wanted to punish Humphrey for proposing the successful civil rights platform at the 1948 Convention.

Humphrey's consistently cheerful and upbeat demeanor, and his forceful advocacy of liberal causes, led him to be nicknamed " The Happy Warrior " by many of his Senate colleagues and political journalists.

Humphrey's critics later learned that Johnson had threatened Humphrey — Johnson told Humphrey that if he publicly opposed his Administration's Vietnam War policy, he would destroy Humphrey's chances to become President by opposing his nomination at the next Democratic Convention.

In 1968, O ' Brien was appointed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey to serve as the national director of Humphrey's presidential campaign and, separately, by Howard Hughes, to serve as Hughes ' public-policy lobbyist in Washington.

Most of Sir Humphrey's actions are motivated by his wish to maintain the prestige, power, and influence he enjoys inside a large, bureaucratic organisation and also to preserve the numerous perks of his position: automatic honours, a substantial income, a fixed retirement age, a large pension, and the practical impossibility of being made redundant or being sacked.

It was renamed the Palace of Placentia or Pleasaunce by Henry VI's consort Margaret of Anjou after Humphrey's death.

The fact that the book was acquired by a 16th-century Earl of Arundel suggests that Duke Humphrey's inscription was not entirely accurate, as New College would probably not have disposed of it.

Humphrey's claims were strongly contested by the lords of the king's council, and in particular his half-uncle, Cardinal Henry Beaufort.

Duke Humphrey's Walk was the name of an aisle in Old St Paul's Cathedral near Duke Humphrey's tomb ( which, according to the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, in reality was John of Gaunt's ), an area frequented by thieves and beggars.

On November 7, 1978, Durenberger was elected in a special election to complete the unexpired term of Senator Hubert Humphrey, whose position had temporarily been filled by Humphrey's wife Muriel.

In Humphrey's Executor v. United States, 295 U. S. 602 ( 1935 ), the Court distinguished between executive officers and quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial officers by stating that the former serve at the pleasure of the president and may be removed at his discretion.

Frequently pictured posing by the famous Number 10 front door, Humphrey's primary duties involved catching mice and rats in the maze of Downing Street buildings.

* Archive film of Doris Humphrey's Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías performed by Jose Limon in 1946 at Jacob's Pillow

Since the primary, Humphrey's support among likely voters had dropped by 14 percentage points, while Coleman's had increased by 5 percentage points.

And legal questions from the lawsuit went before the United States Supreme Court in Humphrey's Executor v. United States, 295 U. S. 602 ( 1935 ), in which the Court ruled that Roosevelt's decision to terminate Humphrey violated an express limitation on presidential power set forth by Congress in the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Lochmaben was from time to time retaken by the Scots but remained in the Bohun family for many years, in the hands of Humphrey's son William, Earl of Northampton, who held and defended it until his death in 1360.