Mike Brown, the team's de facto general manager, was rated as among the worst team owners in American professional sports Compounding matters were off-field problems of several players, notably receiver Chris Henry, who was suspended several times during his short professional career and was actually released by the Bengals at one point, but was then re-signed for the season.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Runyon almost totally avoids the past tense ( it is thought to be used once, in the short story " The Lily of St Pierre ", and once in " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " ), and makes little use of the future tense, using the present for both.

Books featuring Brown are subdivided into a number — usually ten or more — of ( possibly interlinked ) short stories, each of which presents a mystery.

Brown was also the main organiser of the Hogarth Club, a short lived replacement for the PRB which existed between 1858 and 1861.

Brown was inspired to become an entertainer after watching Louis Jordan, a popular jazz and R & B performer during the 1940s, and Jordan's Tympany Five performing " Caldonia " in a short film.

Brown was then featured in Tony Scott's short film, Beat the Devil, in 2001.

* John Brown ( American author ) ( born 1966 ), novelist and short story writer

Leonard considers Jackie Brown the best of the twenty-six different screen adaptations of his novels and short stories.

He has also held short term appointments at Brown University, the University of California, and the University of Michigan.

On 2 December 1859 John Brown was taken from the Charles Town jail a short distance to an open field and hanged.

In the county for a short period of time lived Wilson Brown, the ninth lieutenant governor of Missouri and noted early legislators such as Joseph Hunter II and Abraham Hunton.

Brown began experimenting in short films and made several underground movies which often played on the video screens at clubs.

Those " in " on the joke, however, also enjoy the use of his name: a snack bar at Brown ( Josiah's or Jo's for short ) and the library's card catalog ( Josiah ) are named for him.

* James Brown, singer, lived here for a short time while working at a local saw mill. He was a native of Toccoa GA.

Stiles also made short guest appearances on Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Mad TV, and Dharma & Greg.

Ernie Brown substituted for Williams for a short time and Fuqua left in 1952 to form his own group and was replaced first by Jimmy Cannady, then by Everett Barksdale.

He was replaced for a short time by Frank Todd, who was replaced by Jimmy Brown.

Fredric Brown, in his 1949 short story " Come and Go Mad ", offered another theory about Casper Hauser.

The theme of his oration was “ The Progressive Character of the Human Race .” He then studied law for a short time at Wrentham, Massachusetts ; was a tutor of Latin and Greek ( 1820 – 1822 ) and a librarian ( 1821 – 1823 ) at Brown University.

The publication of a new Hebrew-English Lexicon was started in 1892 under the editorship of Professors Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver and Charles Augustus Briggs, now well known as the Brown Driver Briggs lexicon or BDB for short.

The characters and the baseball park settings are apparently inspired by Ring Lardner's well-known baseball short story " Alibi Ike " ( 1915 ), filmed in 1935 as the comedy Alibi Ike, starring Joe E. Brown in the title role and Olivia de Havilland in her film debut.

* In 1942 Etaoin Shrdlu was the title of a short story by Fredric Brown about a sentient Linotype machine.

Sacrifice will have to be made in some cases, but it is to the municipality's advantage to finance the change-over for a short period of time rather than pay interest on tax anticipation notes indefinitely.

unfortunately, no one has kept complete records of one individual, whereas many have been made for a very short period of time.

Since the mid 1950s, when urethane foam first made its appearance in the American market, growth has been little short of fantastic.

their total passing yardage in three games, 447 on 30 completions in 56 attempts, is only 22 yards short of their total passing yardage in 1959, when they made 469 on 37 completions in 86 tries.

Mrs. Peter Feringa Jr., last year's Achaeans' queen, chose an eggshell white filmy lace short dress made with a wide decolletage trimmed with an edging of tulle.

Although progress has been made in America's system of libraries it still falls short of what is required if we are to maintain the standards that are needed for an informed America.

The middle section of the program was made up of short numbers, naturally enough of unequal merit, but all of them pretty good at that.

Although short a was not written, as in the Indic abugidas, one could argue that the linear arrangement made this a true alphabet.

There, he met director Carlos Marcovich and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and they made what would be his first short film, Vengeance is mine.

In 1973, a short animated film called Perseus was made in the Soviet Union.

In the short and disastrous war of 1805 Archduke Charles commanded what was intended to be the main army in Italy, but events made Germany the decisive theatre of operations ; Austria sustained defeat on the Danube, and the archduke was defeated by Massena in the Battle of Caldiero.

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

The pistil is made up of two fused carpels and the style is very short, with two lobes.

In short, shall include all bases made by a clean steal, or through a wild throw or muff of the ball by a fielder who is directly trying to put the base runner out while attempting to steal.

In 1913, inspired by the introduction of women into Olympic swimming, designer Carl Jantzen made the first functional two-piece swimwear, a close-fitting one-piece with shorts on the bottom and short sleeves on top .< ref name = heritage >

The Roman Breviary has undergone several revisions: The most remarkable of these is that by Francis Quignonez, cardinal of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ( 1536 ), which, though not accepted by Rome ( it was approved by Clement VII and Paul III, and permitted as a substitute for the unrevised Breviary, until Pius V in 1568 excluded it as too short and too modern, and issued a reformed edition ( Breviarium Pianum, Pian Breviary ) of the old Breviary ), formed the model for the still more thorough reform made in 1549 by the Church of England, whose daily morning and evening services are but a condensation and simplification of the Breviary offices.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who had made a number of very popular short silent films, used the arrival of sound to deepen their well-formed screen characterizations and enhance their visual humour, and went on to great success in talking films.

Morris himself delivered disturbing monologues, one of which was revamped and made into the BAFTA-winning short film, My Wrongs # 8245 – 8249 & 117.

A Browning Hi-Power, made for the Finnish military, with attached shoulder stock to turn it into a short carbine

While the original Sterling semi-auto would be classed a " short barrel rifle " under the U. S. National Firearms Act, fully legal long-barrel versions of the Sterling have been made for the U. S. collector market.

After working as assistant director on Resnais's Night and Fog in 1955, Marker made Sunday in Peking, a short documentary " film essay " that would characterize Marker's unique film style for most of his career.

So I wind up in Berlin, Germany, with my wife, and we were in a cab, and the cab made a short stop, and in front of us was an Opel Commodore.

" Barks " may be made as " short barks " when hunting and " tonal barks " when sighting large snakes.

Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films.

It was at the Philadelphia Academy that Lynch made his first short film, which was titled Six Men Getting Sick ( 1966 ).