No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

The highroad, one might say at first, belongs to life, while the way to the churchyard belongs to death.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

It might be well to consider the literary evidence first because it can provide us with an answer to one important question ; ;

He pontificates that `` one of the first signs of advancing civilization is the fall in the value of women in men's eyes ''.

But Adams was one of the first to suggest that this human incompetence was the only motivating factor behind religion.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.

Another optimistic sign, this one from the Labor Department, was the report that the long rise in unemployment compensation payments `` was interrupted for the first time in the week ending Feb. 25 ''.

-- A first grader colors pictures one solid color, everything -- sky, grass, boy, wagon, etc..

Howard Mitchell and the National Symphony perform in the first two releases, designed for grades one and two.

The trouble is that at first glance the idea looks like such a good one.

East Greenwich was one of the first Rhode Island towns to enter into contract agreement with the Rhode Island Development Council for planning services we could not provide for ourselves.

Four of us here in the United States attended, first as students, then as instructors, almost every one of these schools, in England, Canada, and the United States.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

She had been one of the first to collect her wits.

He thought of her, the first one.

She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.

His publishing activity continued at a steady pace during that year, when he first presided over the Romanian School of Fontenay-aux-Roses ; he issued the two volumes of Histoire des roumains et de leur civilisation (" The History of the Romanians and Their Civilization ") and the three tomes of Istoria românilor prin călătorii (" The History of the Romanians in Travels "), alongside Ideea Daciei româneşti (" The Idea of a Romanian Dacia "), Istoria Evului Mediu (" The History of the Middle Ages ") and some other scholarly works.

His work for 1926 centered on the first of four volumes in his series Essai de synthèse de l ' histoire de l ' humanité (" Essay on the Synthesis of World History "), followed in 1927 by Istoria industriei la români (" The History of Industry among the Romanians "), Originea şi sensul democraţiei (" The Origin and Sense of Democracy "), a study of Romanian contributions to the 1877 – 1878 Russo-Turkish War ( Războiul de independenţă, " The War of Independence ") etc.

At the same time, he was again focusing his attention on the condemnation of modernists and the poetry of Arghezi, first with the overview Istoria literaturii româneşti contemporane (" History of Contemporary Romanian Literature "), then with his press polemics.

He completed several new volumes, among which were Dovezi despre conştiinţa originii românilor (" Evidence on the Conscious Origin of the Romanians "), the polemical essay Lupta mea contra prostiei (" My Fight against Stupidity "), and the first two volumes of the long planned Istoria românilor.

The 15th-century Florentine historian Domenico di Leonardo Buoninsegni also featured in the first two chapters of his Istoria Fiorentina a summary of Villani's Cronica.

The form was first described by Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni in his work L ' Istoria della volgar poesia ( History of Folk Poetry ), published in Venice, 1731 and later by P. G.

* In 1870 the small City of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) became the first small Lifeboat to cross the Atlantic from Cork to Boston with two men crew, John Charles Buckley and Nikola Primorac ( di Costa ), only.

The first a pastoral opera, L ' amore innocente ( Innocent Love ) was a light hearted comedy set in the Austrian mountains, and the second was based on an episode from Cervantes Don Quixote – Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace ( Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho ).

Armida was soon followed by Salieri's first truly popular success ; a commedia per musica in the style of Carlo Goldoni La fiera di Venezia ( The Fair of Venice ).

) Salieri soon produced one of his greatest works with the text by Casti La grotta di Trofonio ( The Cave of Trofonius ) in 1785, the first opera buffa published in full score by Artaria.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

In November 2009 at the Teatro Salieri in Legnago occurred the first staging in modern times of his opera Il mondo alla rovescia, a co-production between the Fondazione Culturale Antonio Salieri and the Fondazione Arena di Verona for the Salieri Opera Festival.

Articolo 31 was one of the first hip hop groups in Italy, releasing one of the first Italian hip hop records, Strade di città, in 1993.

He had come to realize that the Italian stage needed reforming ; adopting Molière as his model, he went to work in earnest and in 1738 produced his first real comedy, L ' uomo di mondo (" The Man of the World ").

This style was typified in La Donna di garbo, the first Italian comedy of its kind.

The first cardinal from the family was appointed in 1206 when Giovanni Colonna di Carbognano was made Cardinal Deacon of SS.

For many years, cardinal Giovanni di San Paolo ( elevated in 1193 ) was identified as member of the Colonna family and therefore its first representative in the College of Cardinals, but modern scholars have established that this was based on the false information from the beginning of 16th century.

His first published work was, Il sesso dal punto di vista statistico ( 1908 ).

Through the friendly interposition of the Marquis Cavalli, his first opera, La cambiale di matrimonio ( The Marriage Contract ), was produced at Venice when he was a youth of 18 years.

The most usual stress schemes for the Italian hendecasyllable are stresses on sixth and tenth syllables ( for example, " Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ," Dante Alighieri, first line of The Divine Comedy ), and on the fourth, seventh and tenth syllables (" Un incalzar di cavalli accorrenti ," Ugo Foscolo, Dei sepolcri ).

* 1334 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile ( bell tower ) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.

The small Oratorio di Santa Maria in Valle in Cividale del Friuli is probably one of the oldest preserved pieces of Lombard architecture, as Cividale was the first Lombard city in Italy.

* 1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d ' Italia

Brunello was the first wine to be awarded Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita ( DOCG ) status.

The first such recorded example is that of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna in 1503.

Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy, the first son and third child of attorney, Bernardo di Niccolò Machiavelli, and his wife, Bartolomea di Stefano Nelli.