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.

It was Laura Clifford Barney who, by asking questions of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá over many years and many visits to Haifa, compiled what later became the book Some Answered Questions.

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.

Additionally, a number of scenes have been added which are not in the play: a scene on a lake in a rowing boat where Dr. Harvey gets his feet wet ; Laura wandering alone in the dark, sitting down on a park bench and smoking in public ; a drive in the country in a borrowed car.

George W Bush, Ray Bradbury ( sitting ) and Laura Bush.

Although the sitting president did not attend the game, former president and former Texas governor George W. Bush was present, along with his wife Laura and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Carly was anything but easy to deal with, and gave Laura many headaches.

Three exceptions are Talismania, which featured an ethnically Greek soundtrack with a modern twist, Peggle, which featured an easy listening soundtrack ( as well as a choral passage of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ), both by SomaTone Productions, and Plants vs Zombies, which featured an original soundtrack composed by Laura Shigihara.

He also wrote a number of easy listening albums under the name Laura Fontaine.

The current members are A. Richard Gandt ; Karen A. Dow, clerk ; Nancy J. Luther ; Martha A. Morrison, chair ; and Laura J.

The Brookings Board of Trustees include prominent Republicans such as Kenneth Duberstein, a former chief of staff to Ronald Reagan, and prominent Democrats, such as Laura Tyson, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Bill Clinton.

After saying goodbye to her family, Laura returns to her chair and sits with Luke as he tearfully watches her slip back into silence.

Among these were Shakespeare's chair, fragments from the alleged graves of Romeo and Juliet in Verona, ashes of El Cid and Ximena from the Cathedral of Burgos, and relics of Abelard and Heloise, and Petrarch and his Laura.

* Laura Arrillaga Andreesen, founder and chair of Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund

Carmilla refuses to tell anything about herself or her background, despite questioning from Laura.

According to Lorena Laura Stookey, " many scholars " see a link between stories in " Irish-Celtic mythology " about journeys to the Otherworld in search of a cauldron of rejuvenation and medieval accounts of the quest for the Holy Grail.

The recordings, by screenplay writer Laura McKinney, were from a 1985 research session wherein the detective assisted her with a screenplay about LAPD policewomen.

At the western end of the atoll, about from D – U – D by road, is the island community of Laura, a growing residential area with a popular beach.

When Moore was first approached about the show, she " was unsure and unwilling to commit, fearing any new role might suffer in comparison with her Laura character in The Dick Van Dyke Show, already cemented as one of the most popular parts in TV history.

As he sets about preparing his case, Biegler catches Laura Manion flirting with other army officers during a roadhouse party.

Mary does actually attend the final day of the trial when the issue is raised about the panties that Laura was wearing on the night of the murder.

* Poet, critic and essayist Laura Riding and her husband Schuyler B. Jackson lived in Wabasso from about 1941 until her death on September 2, 1991.

A documentary about Park Avenue, titled “ One Extraordinary Street ” was released in 2008, produced by Laura M. Magone.

Volga is talked about in the juvenile novel The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder in the chapter titled " Pa Goes to Volga ".

* Much ado about Nushu, by Laura Miller, 2004 Invited contribution to the weblog Keywords. oxusnet. net

In the final scene, Rob finishes his advice about making the perfect mixtape, and says that he is now making one for Laura.

Laura finds out about Barrett's death and confronts her husband, demanding he tell her the truth.

He had told Laura about this before they married and promised that he no longer had such urges, but on learning of this new affair, Laura decides to leave him.

This draft of the script " went away for about a year ," during which time it was re-drafted first by Laura Phillips and subsequently by George Lucas.

According to a letter from her daughter, Rose, to biographer William Anderson, the publisher had Laura change her age in the book because it seemed unrealistic for a three-year-old to have specific memories such as she wrote about.

A Japanese cartoon series of 26 episodes ( about 24 minutes each ), originally entitled Sôgen no shôjô Laura.

Part 1 tells the story of teenage Laura in DeSmet, while the second part is about Laura and Almanzo's ( Walton Goggins ) marriage and their life in Mansfield, Missouri.

The Andrew and Laura McCain Gallery is a non-profit, community-supported gallery that shows about nine exhibitions a year of everything from exhibitions on loan from the National Gallery of Canada to the work of local school children.

In one 1985 recording, Fuhrman gave a taped interview to Laura Hart McKinny, a writer working on a screenplay about female police officers.