Then Little Billy began shouting orders to round up the ponies and fill the water buckets and for the cooks to hurry up with the meal.

When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.

Mary Jane took the page from him and began reading it, moving her lips with the words.

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 drummer flogged the gourd with frantic intensity as the dancers began the calinda, a sensual gyration which had long been a favorite of voodoo practitioners and their disciples in the Louisiana slave compounds.

Through the Frankfurt Jewish Kulturbund he began to give sonata recitals in synagogues, with Cellist Emanuel Feuermann.

He began with masks to make the dancer identify himself with the creature he appeared to be.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

A series of conferences with friends and bankers began about this time ; ;

In the final issues of the Englishman, which ended just as the new session of Parliament began, he provided his enemies with still more ammunition.

Having done so, he began to experience all the frustrations of others who attempted to get along with Serenissimus and do a job at the same time.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.

He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.

The process usually began with a tutor boasting about a boy, as Chappell had boasted about Lightfoot, to the higher officers of the college and university.

Woodrow Wilson, with whom he began his years in Washington, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, FDR, with whom he managed a social revolution.

After she had served the detectives coffee and toast ( they politely declined eggs, uncomfortable about their tenancy ), she settled down with a morning newspaper and began reading the stock market quotations.

Stranger, Uncle Randolph began riding home nights with a jug strapped to his saddle, drunkenly singing `` Old Dan Tucker '' at the top of his voice.

Martha picked up the hem of her gown and with eyes closed she slowly began to dance a stately minuet around the ballroom.

David began to shave with great sweeping strokes.

At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.

In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.

Don McLean ’ s song began the reference to the tragedy as " The Day the Music Died ".

Don Facundo began attempting to " tame " rum by isolating a proprietary strain of yeast still used in Bacardi production today.

It is not certain when Cervantes began writing Part Two of Don Quixote, but he had probably not gotten much further than Chapter LIX by late July 1614.

The Shaw Festival, an annual theater festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada began as an eight week run of Don Juan in Hell ( as the long third act dream sequence of Man And Superman is called when staged alone ) and Candida in 1962, and has grown into an annual festival with over 800 performances a year, dedicated to producing the works of Shaw and his contemporaries.

" Braves ' public relations director Don Davidson, observing Aaron's quiet, reserved nature, began referring to him publicly as " Hank " in order to suggest more accessibility.

The sessions began in June 1967, with the group ( except for Lee and Maclean ) replaced by well-known Los Angeles session musicians Billy Strange ( guitar ), Don Randi ( piano ), Hal Blaine ( drums ) and most likely Carol Kaye ( bass ).

Selig also began acquiring many players that would become long-standing fan favorites, including Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Jim Gantner, Stormin ' Gorman Thomas, Don Money, and Cecil Cooper.

Today the most renowned figure of late 18th century opera is Mozart, who began with opera seria but is most famous for his Italian comic operas, especially The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte, as well as The Magic Flute, a landmark in the German tradition.

Spanish rule over the island, which nominally began in 1498, ended when the final Spanish Royal Governor, Don José Maria Chacón surrendered the island to a British fleet of 18 warships under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby on 18 February 1797.

In 1926, Vitaphone began making films with music and effects tracks, most notably, in the feature Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

Some 80 years later, around 1600, Don Pedro Sánchez de Tagle, the Marquis of Altamira, began mass-producing tequila at the first factory in the territory of modern-day Jalisco.

In 1971 Don Phillips began experimenting in his basement with the new fibers to design some sort of fishing rod.

Unsung pioneers of the art include: WLW's Fred Smith ; Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll ( who popularized the dramatic serial ); The Eveready Hour creative team ( which began with one-act plays but was soon experimenting with hour-long combinations of drama and music on its weekly variety program ); the various acting troupes at stations like WLW, WGY, KGO and a number of others, frequently run by women like Helen Schuster Martin and Wilda Wilson Church ; early network continuity writers like Henry Fisk Carlton, William Ford Manley and Don Clark ; producers and directors like Clarence Menser and Gerald Stopp ; and a long list of others who were credited at the time with any number of innovations but who are largely forgotten or undiscussed today.

Following this change in status, the area around the Mission began to decay rapidly ; Santiago Argüello ( then prefect of the southern District of Los Angeles ) complained to the Commandant of the Presidio of Santa Barbara, Don José de la Guerra y Noriega, that "... the unfortunate missions of San Gabriel and San Juan Capistrano been converted into brothels of the mayordomos.

Also during this time, Andy Griffith's old co-star Don Knotts began making frequent appearances as " Ace " Calhoun, Matlock's annoying next door neighbor.

Bizet then began composing Don Rodrigue, an adaptation of the El Cid story by Louis Gallet and Édouard Blau.

Although Cornelius was a well-known figure to readers of Disney comics, his character history was not told until Don Rosa began using the character in the late 1980s.

In 1979, shortly before Radner began her final season on Saturday Night Live, her Broadway show was filmed by Mike Nichols under the title Gilda Live !, co-starring Paul Shaffer and Don Novello, and was released to theaters nationwide in 1980 with poor results.

Tiki culture in the United States began in 1934 with the opening of Don the Beachcomber, a Polynesian-themed bar and restaurant in Hollywood.

Instead she began recording a bluesy mix of pop and rock under the production guidance of Don Was at Capitol Records.

However, Don Freeman began the petition and application process that ended on October 6, 1960, in the City's incorporation.

* Don Owen ( 1930-2012 ) broadcaster and politician from Shreveport, Louisiana, began his career at a radio station in Ada.

Mario Camerini began filming the French-Italian film Don Camillo e i giovani d ' oggi but had to stop filming due to Fernandel's falling ill, which unfortunately resulted in his untimely death.

Don O ' Kelly began his career starring in " Tank Battalion " with Marjorie Helen ( later Leslie Parrish-Bach ).