Somewhat to his surprise he found that one girl, whom he would never have considered for the job since she had appeared somewhat mousy and also had been in the office a relatively short time, did the most outstanding job of playing the role of receptionist, showing wit, sparkle, and aplomb.

She was hired and was found to be entirely satisfactory when she played the role eight hours a day.

It is only natural that she assert herself in the sexual role.

With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.

She may well be incapacitated by it when she is confronted with present and future alternatives -- e.g., whether to prepare primarily for a career or for the role of a homemaker ; ;

Joan Fagan, a fiery redhead who can impress you that she has a temper whether she really has one or not, plays Ellen, and sings the role very well, too.

Laura is a good role for Miss Resnik, and she gave it force, dramatic color and passion.

In 1997 Hill published her autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power, in which she chronicled her role in the Clarence Thomas confirmation controversy and wrote that creating a better society had been a motivating force in her life.

In later Hellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of Eileithyia in aiding childbirth.

Laurents had wanted Barbra Streisand for the role of Fay, but she turned it down to star in Funny Girl.

The new songs included in this production had been added during a 1971 Los Angeles production: " Echo Song " ( sung by Hero and Philia ), and " Farewell " ( added for Nancy Walker playing the role of Domina as she and Senex depart for the country ).

From 1952-56, she appeared in seventeen films ; in 1953 she played a role in Jean Anouilh's stageplay L ' Invitation au château ( Invitation to the Castle ).

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

cosmetics, Morris told the TV program Access Hollywood that she was aware of her apparent consideration for the role and was excited about it.

Although they were childless, Potter played an important role in William ’ s large family, particularly enjoying her relationship with several nieces whom she helped educate and giving comfort and aid to her husband ’ s brothers and sisters.

Love worked with director Alex Cox on her first two films ; she gained a small part in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy ( 1986 ), and was then given the leading role in his following film, Straight to Hell ( 1987 ), which caught the attention of artist Andy Warhol.

Other roles include: starring opposite Jim Carrey in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon ( 1999 ); as Joan Vollmer in Beat ( 2000 ) alongside Kiefer Sutherland ; and a leading role in Julie Johnson ( 2001 ) as Lili Taylor's lesbian lover, for which she won an Outstanding Actress award at L. A .' s Outfest.

After Cobain committed suicide in 1994, Love began using heroin again regularly, but quit using the drug in 1996 at the insistence of director Miloš Forman when she landed a starring role in The People vs. Larry Flynt.

Drinker became Beaux's role model, and she continued lessons with Drinker for a year.

Throughout that year, she continued to work on Broadway, playing the role of Natasha in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters.

Certain scholars have argued that she should be seen as an early feminist who efficiently used language to convey that women could play an important role within society.

Afterwards, she starred in her breakout role in E. T.

A year later, she landed the role of Gertie, the younger sister of Elliott, in E. T.

* The Tale of Sweeney Todd ( 1998 ), a television movie directed by John Schlesinger, commissioned by British Sky Broadcasting for which Ben Kingsley received a Screen Actors Guild Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of the title role.

As the leading intellectual figure in Greece, Aristotle is commissioned to prepare Alexander for his future role as a military leader.

This twin role enabled him to both lead the effort to develop Nautilus, which was launched and commissioned in 1954, as well as oversee the development of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the first commercial pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant.

On 20 May, Sarah premiered her most controversial part, the title role in Shakespeare's Hamlet, in a prose adaptation which she had commissioned from Eugène Morand and Marcel Schwob.

She had a voice over role as Mrs. Beaver in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but more recently she has starred in Jam and Jerusalem, written by Saunders, and Lark Rise to Candleford, of which the fourth series has just been commissioned.

That same year, the Bremerton Historic Ships Association opened the destroyer USS Turner Joy ( DD-951 ) to public tours at the end of the boardwalk ; the ship was built in the Puget Sound area in 1958, commissioned in 1959 and had played a back-up role in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident that further escalated U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War with the Congressional passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing President Lyndon B. Johnson to send fighting troops in addition to the " advisors " already on the ground in Vietnam.

The U. S. Air Force has not commissioned any new designs for this role ( in part, out of concern for the F-35 program ).

In 1967 Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara commissioned a “ massive top-secret history of the United States role in Indochina ”.

In the early 1950s, Snagge played a role in negotiations that led to the radio comedy series The Goon Show being commissioned by the BBC.

Vanier took on a prominent role in recruiting others, eventually helping to organise in 1915 the French Canadian 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, of which he was commissioned as an officer, and which later, in 1920, became the Royal 22 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment.

" She received her best-known role when she was asked to play a villainous warrior woman named Xena in the episode " The Warrior Princess ", which aired in March 1995 ( R. J. Stewart, one of Pacific Renaissance Pictures ' in-house writers, dramatised the teleplay from a story that Robert G. " Rob " Tapert commissioned John Schulian to write ).

Using post-fleet board UK midshipman for comparison, the rank would be the most junior commissioned officer in the rank structure, and similar to a US ensign in role and responsibility.

Enheduanna's authorship raises the issue of female literacy in ancient Mesopotamia ; in addition to Enheduanna royal wives are known to have commissioned or perhaps composed poetry and the goddess Nindaba acted as a scribe: As Leick notes " to some extent the descriptive epithets of Mesopotamian goddesses reveal the cultural perception of women and their role in ancient society ".

It commissioned many music works for broadcast by the BBC Music Department, playing a crucial role in the development of the career of composers such as Benjamin Britten.

Throughout the first five series, when Ardal O ' Hanlon played the main role, ratings were consistent enough for further series to be commissioned by the BBC, with some episodes reaching 5-8m viewers.

Information on the Holocaust in Romania, including the role of the Iron Guard, from a report commissioned and accepted by the Romanian government.

Continuing an active naval career, he commissioned the 74-gun in 1778, and played a leading role in the Battle of Ushant on 27 July that year.

The intervention of the sheriff Montrodón, commissioned by the Viceroy of Santa Coloma, to the warehouses of Mataró and Salses, triggered the conflict, in which the lawyer Joan Pere Fontanella again played a prominent role in favor of the theses of the Members of the Government.

The castle was commissioned in the 1560s by Gilbert Balfour, who probably played the leading role in the murder of Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots.

The Second Symphony was commissioned to include a poem by Alexander Bezymensky, which glorified Lenin's role in the proletariat struggle in bombastic style.

The channel commissioned Michael Elliott's production of King Lear ( 1983 ) with Laurence Olivier in the title role and Isaacs re-commissioned a number of programmes from his time at Granada including What the Papers Say.

* In 2012 the BBC commissioned a ten-episode series of Father Brown stories starring Mark Williams in tht title role to air on BBC One in early 2013.

In some countries, commanding officers may be of any commissioned rank ; usually there are more officers than command positions available, and time spent in command is generally a key aspect of promotion, so the role of commanding officer is highly valued, and in theory only goes to the best officers.

Supporter of this theory claims that as a military king, Naresuan needs to be seen as a strict and severe leader, and therefore commissioned his brother to act out the role play.

It was announced on 20 September 2011, that Bolam had quit the role of Jack Halford in New Tricks, just days after two more series were commissioned.