Laura was sitting in an easy chair about eight feet away.

Then Laura took her gently and shoved her off again, toward Fritzie: Amy did not laugh -- this was work, concentration, achievement.

She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.

A Doll's House was based on the life of Laura Kieler ( maiden name Laura Smith Petersen ).

Much that happened between Nora and Torvald happened to Laura and her husband, Victor, with the most important exception being the forged signature that was the basis of Nora's loan.

Christian was a doctor and medical officer who married Laura Catherine Bjølstad, a woman half his age, in 1861.

* In the 2008 HBO television movie Recount, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris ( portrayed by Laura Dern ) compares herself to Queen Esther, of whom she says " was willing to sacrifice herself to save the lovely Jewish people.

The new laws threatened Laura, who was Jewish.

There has been a refocus onto celluloid film's ability to capture an " indexical " image of a moment in time by theorists like Mary Ann Doane, Philip Rosen and Laura Mulvey who was informed by psychoanalysis.

She was born Helene Emma Laura Juliane Müller at, Essen, Germany, into a wealthy industrialist family.

In the late 1990s, the musical play Love, Janis was created with input from Janis's younger sister Laura plus Big Brother guitarist Sam Andrew, with an aim to take it to Off Broadway.

Opening in the summer of 2001 and scheduled for only a few weeks of performances, the show won acclaim and packed houses and was held over several times, the demanding role of the singing Janis attracting rock vocalists from relative unknowns to pop stars Laura Branigan and Beth Hart.

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

He also bestowed nicknames and pseudonyms on his friends and family as well, referring to Friedrich Engels as ' General ', his housekeeper Helene as ' Lenchen ' or ' Nym ', while one of his daughters, Jennychen, was referred to as ' Qui Qui, Emperor of China ' and another, Laura, was known as ' Kakadou ' or ' the Hottentot '.

After 1488, no other appointments of women are known, although it is said that the Garter was granted to Neapolitan poet Laura Bacio Terricina, by Edward VI.

Polled by Gallup as one of the most popular first ladies, Laura Bush was involved in both national and global concerns during her tenure.

Laura Lane Welch was born in Midland, Texas, the only child of Harold Welch ( 1912 – 1995 ) and Jenna Louise Hawkins Welch ( born 1919 ).

In August 2007, the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health ( LWBIWH ) was founded at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

The publicity Hall received was due to unintended consequences ; the novel was tried for obscenity in London, a spectacularly scandalous event described as " the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian subculture " by professor Laura Doan.

While it is possible she was an idealized or pseudonymous character – particularly since the name " Laura " has a linguistic connection to the poetic " laurels " Petrarch coveted – Petrarch himself always denied it.

But Schnabel was a great teacher in addition to being a great performer, and the fact that four of the ten versions I listened to are by Schnabel pupils ( Clifford Curzon, Frank Glazer, Adrian Aeschbacher, and Victor Babin ) also sheds light on the master's pedagogical skills.

Palmer was now putting merely for a tie, and Player, who was sitting beside his wife and watching it all on television in Tournament Chairman Clifford Roberts' clubhouse apartment, stared in amazement when Palmer missed the putt.

In the late 1980s and 1990s authors such as George Marcus and James Clifford pondered ethnographic authority, in particular how and why anthropological knowledge was possible and authoritative.

Atanasoff and Clifford Berry's computer work was not widely known until it was rediscovered in the 1960s, amidst conflicting claims about the first instance of an electronic computer.

The ABC was built by Dr. Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry in the basement of the physics building at Iowa State College during 1939 – 42.

The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

However, the Cabal Ministry they formed can hardly be seen as such ; the Scot Lauderdale was not much involved in English governance at all, while the Catholic ministers of the Cabal ( Clifford and Arlington ) were never much in sympathy with the Protestants ( Buckingham and Ashley ).

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Early in the 1970s, the asymmetric key algorithm was invented by staff member Clifford Cocks, a mathematics graduate: this fact was kept secret until 1997.

In 1878, the year before his death, Clifford expanded upon Grassmann's Ausdehnungslehre to form what are now usually called Clifford algebras in his honor although Clifford himself chose to call them " geometric algebras " and this term was repopularized by Hestenes in the 1960s.

The first white baby born in the Gilbert Plains district was Myrtle McCurdy, while the first white boy was Gilbert Clifford Best in 1900.

Use of the term hacker meaning computer criminal was also advanced by the title " Stalking the Wily Hacker ", an article by Clifford Stoll in the May 1988 issue of the Communications of the ACM.

In 1939, John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry of Iowa State University developed the Atanasoff – Berry Computer ( ABC ), The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer.

Jaynes was born in West Newton, Massachusetts, son of Julian Clifford Jaynes ( 1854 – 1922 ), a Unitarian minister, and Clara Bullard Jaynes ( 1884-1980 ).

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

MeatballWiki was started in 2000 by Sunir Shah, a forum administrator from Ontario, Canada, on Clifford Adams's Internet domain usemod. com.

As Mitchell was about to graduate from the Washington Seminary in 1918, she met and fell in love with another Harvard student, a young army lieutenant, Clifford West Henry, who was chief bayonet instructor at Camp Gordon from May 10 until the time he set sail for France on July 17.

Barney was not really frightening.

For 23 years, Rex Barney was the PA announcer for the Orioles.

Barney died on August 12, 1997, and in his honor that night's game at Camden Yards against the Oakland Athletics was held without a public – address announcer.

Barney was replaced as Camden Yards ' PA announcer by Dave McGowan, who held the position until December 2011.

Barney Bubbles ( born Colin Fulcher, 30 July 1942 – 14 November 1983 ) was a radical English graphic artist whose work encompassed graphic design and music video direction.

In 1978 Barney Bubbles was responsible for the redesign of the weekly music paper the NME, including a new logo design ( which is no longer in use ).< ref >

It was during her performances in the carnival that Day first caught the attention of Barney Rapp, who sought a girl vocalist and asked if Day would like to audition for the job.

* To Al Jorden, a trombonist whom she first met when he was in Barney Rapp's Band, from March 1941 to 1943.

The Village hosted the first racially integrated night club in the United States, when the nightclub Café Society was opened in 1938 at 1 Sheridan Square by Barney Josephson.

" Shearer said in an interview that one person who " took him under his wing " and was one of his best friends during his early days in show business was voice actor Mel Blanc, who voiced many animated characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Barney Rubble.

The earliest NCS award was the Billy DeBeck Memorial Award, known as the Barney from the character in DeBeck's popular comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.

in 1936, Barney Balaban became president, and Zukor was bumped up to chairman of the board.

Founding father Adolph Zukor ( born in 1873 ) was still chairman emeritus ; he referred to chairman Barney Balaban ( born 1888 ) as " the boy.

In 1909, automobile race pioneer Barney Oldfield was the first celebrity to endorse Pepsi-Cola, describing it as " A bully drink ... refreshing, invigorating, a fine bracer before a race.

Assuring them that Rowland was safe, the sheriff and his black deputy, Barney Cleaver, encouraged the men to return home.

Boggs claims Pitt the Elder was the greatest Prime Minister to Barney's Lord Palmerston, causing Barney to punch Boggs in the face, knocking him unconscious.

On 1 August 2006, CNN reported that Barney, a Doberman Pinscher employed as a security dog at Wookey Hole, had destroyed parts of a valuable collection of teddy bears, including one which had belonged to Elvis Presley, which was estimated to be worth $ 75, 000.

There developed considerable intrigue and national interest over the disappearance — Wells declared it was a " murder " — of mine guard William J. Barney.

He was married to Marion Lloyd Stearns in 1946 and the father of two children, Charles ( Barney ) Byron White and Nancy Pitkin White.

A typical violation addressed by the settlement was the case of CSFB and Salomon Smith Barney, which were alleged to have engaged in inappropriate spinning of " hot " IPOs and issued fraudulent research reports in violation of various sections within the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Barney sobered up in the episode " Days of Wine and D ' oh ' ses ", which was co-written by Castellaneta, and stayed sober for several episodes.

Barney was inspired by the cartoon character Barney Rubble from The Flintstones and by several barflies from other television programs.