Reports that the venerable liner, which has been in service since 1936, was to be retired struck a nostalgic note in many of us.

This tax was discontinued in 1936.

Linda accepted the reproach, which was something she did rarely in all her life and most rarely in that summer of 1936 when she was by all odds the prettiest and brightest young woman west of the Allegheny Mountains, and John was surely one of the handsomer and brighter young men around Pittsburgh.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

( This building was in fact built in 1936, decades later than Poirot fictionally moved in.

Cofounder Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

The Australian Constitution, as was noted during the crisis of 1936, contains no power for the federal parliament to legislate with respect to the monarchy.

The book remained in manuscript and was not published until 1936.

* 1936: The site of Manseibashi Station was closed ( later the Transportation Museum — now closed ).

Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

In 1936, Whorf was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology at Yale, and he was invited by Franz Boas to serve on the committee of the Society of American Linguistics ( later Linguistic Society of America ).

To clarify American sovereignty, Executive Order 7358 was issued on May 13, 1936.

The 1931 census was postponed to 1936 because of the Great Depression.

The reversion to this old regime was formalized under the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits of July 1936.

The first use of this torch was for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

His 153 not out in Bridgetown, Barbados, during West Indies ' 2 – 2 home series draw against Australia in * 1998 – 1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936 – 1937 series at Melbourne.

Charles Hardin Holley ( September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959 ), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll.

Charles Hardin Holley was born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, to Lawrence Odell and Ella Pauline ( Drake ) Holley.

Ownership of Balmoral, along with Sandringham House in Norfolk, was inherited by Edward VIII on his accession in 1936.

Growth was limited by economic conditions caused by the great depression but thanks in part to the introduction of the metal can in 1936 Budweiser ’ s sales began to climb again.

Recognizing his athletic talents, Robinson's older brothers Mack ( himself an accomplished athlete and silver medalist at the 1936 Summer Olympics ) and Frank inspired Jackie to pursue his interest in sports.

* Punch gave its name to the Lucknow-based satirical Urdu weekly Awadh Punch ( 1877 – 1936 ), which in turn inspired dozens of other " Punch " periodicals in India.

The success of the work inspired him, after 23 years, to write a sequel, Trent's Own Case ( 1936 ).

Nielsen's uncle Jean Hersholt ( pictured here in the 1936 film His Brother's Wife ) inspired him to become an actor.

Paul Laffoley has suggested that the futuristic interior was inspired by Wright's Johnson Wax Headquarters, completed in 1936.

His last poetic work Sonnets to his dark love ( 1936 ) was long thought to have been inspired by his passion for Rafael Rodriguez Rapun, secretary of La Barraca, but new documents and mementos discovered in 2012 suggests that the actual inspiration was Juan Ramírez de Lucas, a 19 year old with whom Lorca hoped to emigrate to Mexico.

Their marriage inspired him to both compose works for her to play ( Thème et variations for violin and piano in the year they were married ) and to write pieces to celebrate their domestic happiness, including the song cycle Poèmes pour Mi in 1936, which he orchestrated in 1937.

Church ( 1936a, 1936b ) and Turing ( 1936 ), inspired by techniques used by Gödel ( 1931 ) to prove his incompleteness theorems, independently demonstrated that the Entscheidungsproblem is not effectively decidable.

His poem A l ' appel de la race de Saba published in 1936 was inspired by the entry of Italian troops in Addis Ababa.

The success of Grey's The Lone Star Ranger ( a novel later turned into a 1930 film ) and King of the Royal Mounted ( popular as a series of Big Little Books and comics, later turned into a 1936 film ), inspired two radio series by George Trendle ( WXYZ, Detroit ).

Focke-Wulf constructed Juan de la Cierva's autogyro under license from 1933, and Focke was inspired by it to design the world's first practical helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, which first flew on 26 June 1936.

1936 was the year that Malcolm Lowry wrote his short story, " Under The Volcano ", which inspired his 1947 novel of the same name.

Frey ( 1918 – 1992 ) claimed to have written the song circa 1936 under the title " Come By Here ," inspired, he claimed, by a prayer he heard delivered by " Mother Duffin ," a storefront evangelist in Portland, Oregon.

The company encountered financial problems however and in 1936 the Triumph bicycle and motorcycle businesses were sold, the latter to Jack Sangster of Ariel to become Triumph Engineering Co Ltd. Healey purchased an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 and developed a new car model with an Alfa inspired straight-8 engine type named the Triumph Dolomite.

Edward Bach ( pronounced ' Batch ', ; September 24, 1886 – November 27, 1936 ) was a British physician, homeopath and spiritual writer, best known for developing a range of remedies called the Bach flower remedies, a form of alternative medicine inspired by classical homeopathic traditions.

* The 2007 docu / drama film The Beckoning Silence features mountaineer Joe Simpson, of Touching the Void fame, recounting — with filmed reconstructions — the ill-fated 1936 expedition up the north face of the Eiger and how Heinrich Harrer's book The White Spider inspired him to take up climbing.

In 1936, the first life-size model ( open air museum ) was built on the peninsula, inspired by the Unteruhldingen-pile dwellings in Germany.

Fang Lizhi ( February 12, 1936 – April 6, 2012 ) was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986-87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

During the same time period, in a much more benign fashion and perhaps inspired by the Spider's calling card, Lee Falk's long-running 1936 syndicated comic strip hero, The Phantom, left a distinct skull mark in the faces of those enemies he fought, made by the ring he wore.

The book also inspired a 1936 film Keep Your Seats, Please directed by Monty Banks at Ealing Studios and starring George Formby.

* The General Died at Dawn ( 1936 ) was inspired by Cohen, with Gary Cooper playing the part of an Irish-American adventurer in China.

Its name was inspired by the Popular Front, a left-wing coalition which governed France from 1936 to 1938.

The name may have been inspired by the Baker Street Irregulars from the stories of Sherlock Holmes, and perhaps by the Battle of Cable Street, a riot started between Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and anti-fascist protesters in 1936.

On July 7, 1936, Acosta was resting under a pine tree in the plaza of the town of Hatillo, which inspired him to write one of his greatest compositions, the danza Bajo La Sombra de un Pino ( Under the Shade of a Pine ).

It inspired a subplot in the film Strike Me Lucky ( 1934 ) and Lasseter's fate was recreated in the movie Phantom Gold ( 1936 ).