The story goes that every record label they tried turned her down, mainly because, as a demo singer, Francis could copy other popular singers of the day like Kitty Kallen or Kay Starr, but had not yet developed a distinctive sound of her own.

He also worked without fee for Martyn and Kay Tott, who tried to get £ 3m from Camelot on the winning lottery ticket they bought and mislaid.

He found the body of Mr. Inwood at the residence, took a spare dress from the wardrobe and then tried to simulate a burglary gone wrong, only to be caught in the act by Charlotte's theatre maid and dresser, Nellie Goode ( Kay Walsh ).

John Kay unsuccessfully tried to enforce his manufacturing monopoly, and began to quarrel with the French authorities, briefly returning to England, in 1756.

In Plain Speaking, Miller quoted Truman as referring to General Douglas MacArthur as a " dumb-son-of-a-bitch " and quoted Truman as asserting that Dwight Eisenhower, his successor in the Oval Office, tried to divorce his wife Mamie in order to marry Kay Summersby, his English chauffeur and secretary during World War II.

" According to Kay, Lama Yeshe tried at different times to reassert his authority over the Institute, but his attempts were unsuccessful.

Of her character Nicholls said in 1991 during an interview with Graeme Kay that: " Audrey's not quite as loud and brazen now, I've tried to take her down a bit, which fitted in with the fact that she married Alf, who is quite serious and sombre.

When he tried to call himself into an insane asylum, Kay used her magic and accidentally repaired his memory of him being in Hell, which also resulted him to remember his fiancee, Endora and Tabitha were all witches.

Each year, a new Princess Kay of the Milky Way is selected to promote Minnesota's dairy industry.

He also began to co-produce and promote jazz concerts, in association with Monte Kay.

Yule assembled a backing band consisting of Rob Norris ( guitar ), George Kay ( bass guitar ) and Mark Nauseef ( drums ) to tour the United Kingdom in November and December 1972 to promote the upcoming album ; a live recording from this tour is included on the 2001 live box set Final V. U. 1971-1973.

In 1745, John Kay, the inventor of the fly-shuttle, obtained, conjointly with Joseph Stell, a patent for improvements in the ribbon loom ; and since that period it has benefited by the inventions applied to weaving machinery generally.

Kay always called this invention a " wheeled shuttle ", but others used the name " fly-shuttle " ( and later, " flying shuttle ") because of its continuous speed, especially when a young worker was using it in a narrow loom:

In July 1733, Kay formed a partnership in Colchester to begin fly-shuttle manufacturing.

Kay remained inventive ; in 1746 he was working on an efficient method of salt production, and designing improvements to spinning technology-but that made him unpopular among Bury spinners Also, fly-shuttle use was becoming widespread in weaving, increasing cotton yarn demand and its price-and Kay was blamed.

Henry Bury ( but was more likely chosen due to the similar names ), whilst the key is believed to be a play on the name of the re-founder, the Reverend Roger Kay.

* Kay, named after the Reverend Roger Kay, re-founder of Bury Grammar School, after whom the hall ( now in the girls ' school ) is named.

Although only boys were admitted to Bury Grammar when the school was founded, on the re-founding by Roger Kay in 1726 he bequeathed money specifically for girls, the bequest stating: " I charge my Estate called Warth in Ratcliff with the payment of £ 5 yearly in order that ten poor girls born or to be born in the parish and town of Bury might receive an education .... to make them perfect in reading The Bible, to teach them to write well and to be good accountants to fit them for Trades or to be good servants.

John Kay was born 1704-06-17 in the Lancashire hamlet of Walmersley, just north of Bury.

Impoverished and harassed, Kay was compelled to leave Leeds, and he returned to Bury.

William Venn Gough's 1908 Memorial to John Kay ( sculpture by John Cassidy ( artist ) | John Cassidy ) in Bury town centre.

19th century efforts to acknowledge Kay achieved little, but by 1903 it was felt that Bury " owed John Kay's memory an wiktionary: atonement | atonement ", and that all Bury should contribute in restitution to " that wonderfully ingenious and wiktionary: martyr # Noun | martyred man ".

In Bury, Kay has become a local hero: there are still several pubs named after him, as are the Kay Gardens.

Of course he couldn't say much, really, because of Debora, but Linda Kay could imagine what kind of woman his wife had been and what a raw deal he had got.

Linda Kay told him he couldn't do anything like that with his Grandma dying, and he said well they had to eat, didn't they, they weren't all dying.

There are those that still somehow believe the Kay guitar company used DeArmonds on their guitars, this couldn't be further from the truth.

Fox who couldn't get over the fact that Kay was leaving him for Miguel, faked an illness so Kay would feel sorry for him and stay with him.

Wedding photographs of the " Bride and Groom " are being taken, and Kay, still disguised as a maid, tries to convince Jimmy that she would be a better wife than fussy Constance.

Kay is trying on one of Constance's gowns, and, since she does not look like a maid anymore, she and Shorty convince the revenue officer that she is Jimmy's wife.

Rather than capitulate, the manufacturers formed " the Shuttle Club ", a syndicate which paid the costs of any member brought to court ; their strategy of patent piracy and mutual indeminification nearly bankrupted Kay.

The Silvertone name adorned guitars from several different manufacturers over the years, including Danelectro, National, Harmony, Kay and Teisco.

And there was still not anything that Linda Kay could do.

There was the suggestion of ice water, and -- in spite of the protest `` We're not really thirsty '' -- Linda Kay, to escape the stuffy air and the smothering soft voices, hurried to the kitchen.

This joke was not funny to Linda Kay, and she blushed, as she always did ; ;

There was really no reason to refuse, and Linda Kay had never ridden in a Cadillac.

But there was no need for Linda Kay to go on, since all she wanted in life was to make a home for Bobby Joe and ( blushing ) raise his children.

Bobby Joe was trying to get Linda Kay to say she would cook one if he brought it home.

Linda Kay felt that she was not exactly more comfortable.

Miss Glenda Kay Meredith of Denton was her sister's maid of honor, and Vernon Lewelleyn of San Angelo was best man.

Olson was born Barbara Kay Bracher in Houston, Texas.

Flockhart was born in Freeport, Illinois, the daughter of Kay, a teacher of English, and Ronald Flockhart, an executive for Kraft Foods.

Kay Plato began taking Dana to auditions when she was very young.

A modest success, it was followed by Kelly's last musical film for MGM, Les Girls ( 1957 ), in which he partnered a trio of leading ladies, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall and Taina Elg.

The concept of hyperlinks was further refined and extended to graphics by researchers at Xerox PARC, specifically Alan Kay, who went beyond text-based hyperlinks and used a GUI as the primary interface for the Xerox Alto computer.

His second wife was Kay Marvis ( m. 1945 – 51 ), née Catherine Dittig, former wife of Leo Gorcey.

Groucho was 54 and Kay 21 at the time of their marriage.

Humphrey was the oldest of three children ; he had two younger sisters, Frances and Catherine Elizabeth ( Kay ).

The original band was Jay Kay ( vocals ), Toby Smith ( keyboard ), Stuart Zender ( bass ), Nick Van Gelder ( drums ) and Wallis Buchanan ( didgeridoo ).

Kay was the impetus behind the formation of Jamiroquai, deciding to form the band after an unsuccessful audition to become the singer of the Brand New Heavies.

Kay remarked that compilation was released purely out of contractual obligation: " 2006, they're out of the picture.

It was, in fact, so unusual that Davis had to persuade the Roost's manager, Ralph Watkins, to allow the sign to be worded in this way ; he prevailed only with the help of Monte Kay, the club's artistic director.

Wright was born Robin Gayle Wright in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Gayle ( née Gaston ), a national director in Mary Kay cosmetics salesforce, and Freddie Gayle Wright, a pharmaceutical executive.

" It was designed and created in part for educational use, more so for constructionist learning, at the Learning Research Group ( LRG ) of Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, Ted Kaehler, Scott Wallace, and others during the 1970s.

Smalltalk was the product of research led by Alan Kay at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center ( PARC ); Alan Kay designed most of the early Smalltalk versions, which Dan Ingalls implemented.