Lady Fortune is usually represented as larger than life to underscore her importance.

The Christianized Lady Fortune is not autonomous: illustrations for Boccaccio's Remedii show Fortuna enthroned in a triumphal car with reins that lead to heaven, and appears in chapter 25 of Machiavelli's The Prince, in which he says Fortune only rules one half of men's fate, the other half being of their own will.

Even Shakespeare was no stranger to Lady Fortune:

Lady Fortune in a Boccaccio manuscript

* Fred Archer – Spinaway ( 1875 ), Lady Golightly ( 1877 ), Jannette ( 1878 ), Wheel of Fortune ( 1879 ), Dutch Oven ( 1882 ), Britomartis ( 1883 ), Clochette ( 1884 ), Philosophy ( 1886 )

* Mathew Dawson – Leonie ( 1868 ), Gertrude ( 1870 ), Spinaway ( 1875 ), Lady Golightly ( 1877 ), Jannette ( 1878 ), Wheel of Fortune ( 1879 ), Dutch Oven ( 1882 ), Britomartis ( 1883 ), Clochette ( 1884 )

* 6th Viscount Falmouth – Gertrude ( 1870 ), Spinaway ( 1875 ), Lady Golightly ( 1877 ), Jannette ( 1878 ), Wheel of Fortune ( 1879 ), Dutch Oven ( 1882 ), Britomartis ( 1883 )

* Lady Jane Fortune Margaret Ogilvy ( b.

She then returned to the West End ( briefly returning to the Old Vic to play Emilia in their 1938 Othello ), notably playing Edith Gunter in Dodie Smith's Autumn Crocus ( Lyric, 1931 ), the Countess of Rousillon in All's Well That Ends Well ( Arts, 1932 ), Lady Strawholme in Ivor Novello's Fresh Fields ( Criterion, 1933 ), Liz Frobisher in John Van Druten's The Distaff Side ( Apollo, 1933 ), Barbara Dawe in Clemence Dane's Moonlight is Silver ( Queen's, 1934 ), Theodora in Elmer Rice's Not for Children ( Fortune, 1935 ), Masha in Chekhov's The Seagull ( New Theatre, 1936 ), the Mother in an English-language version of Garcia Lorca's Bodas de sangre entitled Marriage of Blood ( Savoy, 1939 ), Léonie in Jean Cocteau's Les Parents terribles ( Gate, 1940 ), Mrs Cheveley in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband ( Westminster, 1943 ), and Cornelia in John Webster's The White Devil ( Duchess, 1947 ).

From an edition of Boccaccio's " De Casibus Virorum Illustrium " showing Lady Fortune spinning her wheel.

He achieved worldwide fame when he was seen as the Nazi Herr Zeller in The Sound of Music, and he had small roles in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie, Judgment at Nuremberg and My Fair Lady.

Virginia Fortune Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie, DCVO ( b. 9 February 1933 ) is an American-born Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II.

* The Lady Jane Fortune Margaret Ogilvy ( b. 24 June 1955 )

The President was even more generous with the First Lady than he had been before the tragedy.

But she was afraid the First Lady would not understand, because Rob Roy was a perfect angel with the First Family.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

It was no longer fashionable to be seen with fabulous `` Lady Harrington ''.

A 62-year-old Smithfield man, Lester E. Stone of 19 Beverly Circle, was in satisfactory condition last night at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, North Providence, with injuries suffered when a car he was driving struck a utility pole on Woonasquatucket Avenue in North Providence near Stevens Street.

The AID has undertaken the redecoration of the White House library as a project in connection with the work being done by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's Fine Arts Advisory Committee to secure antiques for the presidential home.

Time stood still for these people, and their load of pleasure was so commingled with the shocks and pains of the dromozoa that the words of the Lady Da took on very remote meaning.

Punch had a poem containing the words “ When Ivo comes back with the urn ” and when Ivo Bligh wiped out the defeat Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband ’ s ( Ivo Bligh ’ s ) hands.

* The White Lady is a type of female ghost reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with some local legend of tragedy.

Al-Mutarrif's sister, known as al-Sayyida (" the Lady "), was entrusted with his education.

That moment, halfway through the first act, belongs to Ms. Lansbury, who has hitherto been perfectly entertaining, playing Madame Armfeldt with the overripe aristocratic condescension of a Lady Bracknell.

Most biographers blame Lerner's professional decline on the lack of a strong director with whom Lerner could collaborate, as Neil Simon did with Mike Nichols or Stephen Sondheim with Harold Prince ( Moss Hart, who had directed My Fair Lady, died shortly after Camelot opened ).

Lerner's autobiography The Street Where I Live ( 1978 ), was an account of three of his and Loewe's successful collaborations, My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot along with personal information.

He would sometimes write songs with someone in mind, for instance, " I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face " from My Fair Lady was written with Rex Harrison in mind to complement his very limited vocal range.

* My Fair Lady ( 1956 ), with Frederick Loewe

Before he entered parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes ( the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt ), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple.

On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.

Dozmary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to Arthurian legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake.

After years of toiling in the Top Ten, the group finally reached No. 1 in 1978 with the sweet " Three Times a Lady.

The group had no major hits in 1980, but by 1981 they released two Top Ten hits with " Oh No " (# 4 U. S .) and their first upbeat single in almost five years, " Lady ( You Bring Me Up )" (# 8 U. S .)

The plight of the carusi is a secondary theme in the historical novella The Lady of the Wheel, by Angelo F. Coniglio.

* Ethel Lina White's The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ) — which was filmed by Hitchcock as The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ) ( with a changed ending )

This series includes, for example, Ethel Lina White's novel The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), which Alfred Hitchcock — before he went to Hollywood — turned into a much-loved movie entitled The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), and Ira Levin's ( born 1929 ) science fiction thriller The Boys from Brazil ( 1976 ), which was filmed in 1978.

Lady Luck arrived at the Lake and unpacked her bags in 1944, when Harvey's Wagon Wheel Saloon and Gambling Hall opened as one of the area's first gaming establishments ( technically on the Nevada side of the state border in the South Lake Tahoe ( Nevada gaming area ).

This theme is a main element in Angelo F. Coniglio's historical fiction novella The Lady of the Wheel, in which the title refers to a " receiver of foundlings " who were placed in a device called a " foundling wheel ", in the wall of a church or hospital.

* Ethel Lina White-The Wheel Spins ( later The Lady Vanishes )

The Laxey WheelLaxey Wheel, also known as Lady Isabella after the wife of The Hon.

Other multiple winners include Alison Krauss and Union Station, and Emmylou Harris who have won 3 apiece, and Asleep at the Wheel, Brooks and Dunn, Alabama, Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson and Lady Antebellum all of whom have won 2.

The well-preserved Royal Monastery of Our Lady of the Wheel ( founded 1202 ) on the Ebro River in the Aragon region of Spain provides an excellent example of such an application.

He toured briefly with the band Dark Lady supporting Jake Burns and the Big Wheel, notably at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street but then spent five years back in Belfast teaching guitar until Stiff Little Fingers was reformed.

Ethel Lina White ( 1876 – 13 August 1944 ) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel, The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), was based.

* The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ) ( filmed in 1938 by Alfred Hitchcock as The Lady Vanishes, remade under the same title in 1979 )

A self-propelled vertical firework wheel was designed by The Lily Fireworks Factory and fired for at least one revolution on the eve of the village feast of our Lady of Lilies The Lily Fireworks Factory, Mqabba, Malta currently possess this record, burning a Catherine Wheel with a diameter of 32 metres, on 18 June 2011. http :// www. guinnessworldrecords. com / Search / Details / Firework --- largestCatherinewheel / 48123. htm http :// community. guinnessworldrecords. com / _World39s-biggest-Catherine-Wheel-is-fired-in-Malta / blog / 4275972 / 7691. html? fb_comment_id =