It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

A story, no doubt apocryphal, for Mercer himself denies it, has him sporting a monacle in those Village days.

When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself.

Astaire was a songwriter of note himself, with " I'm Building Up to an Awful Letdown " ( written with lyricist Johnny Mercer ) reaching number four in the Hit Parade of 1936.

He appeared as himself in a parody of the famous Lakota-brand pain reliever commercials, on CBC Television's Rick Mercer Report.

In one sketch, he delivered his commentary in the style of a Rick Mercer streeter from This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and Mercer himself showed up mid-sketch to correct Seamus ' delivery style.

By that point, Mesogog has already managed to separate himself from Dr. Anton Mercer.

Leaving his position with the Museum in the late 1890s, Mercer devoted himself to finding old American artifacts and learning about German pottery.

Mercer founded Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in 1898 after apprenticing himself to a Pennsylvania German potter.

Tommy ( known often as Dr. O ) himself joins the team as the Black Dino Ranger, and they are also later joined by Trent Mercer as the White Dino Ranger, with the powers of invisibility and camouflage, respectively.

Even after consulting an orthopaedic specialist, the Everton management refused to believe him and Mercer had to pay for the surgery himself.

On the New York side of the Hudson River, Fort Washington was constructed, and Mercer himself oversaw the building of the earthen fortification on the New Jersey side, named Fort Lee.

When he learns that Mercer was the one who attacked Veronica, he purposely gets himself arrested so he can be in the same cell as him — for revenge.

On a cruise up the Ruhr in early adulthood, Mercer was impressed by the eclipse of artisanal culture by industrial production, and resolved himself to preserving artifacts of preindustrial life.

The song was published in 1942 and has become an often-recorded standard with versions by Glenn Miller, the singers Margaret Whiting, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mercer himself, and others.

In a 1966 New York Herald Tribune feature by his former office manager-turned-journalist, Marilyn Mercer claimed, " Ebony never drew criticism from Negro groups ( in fact, Eisner was commended by some for using him ), perhaps because, although his speech pattern was early Minstrel Show, he himself derived from another literary tradition: he was a combination of Tom Sawyer and Penrod, with a touch of Horatio Alger hero, and color didn't really come into it ".

Even after consulting an orthopaedic specialist, Kelly refused to believe him and Mercer had to pay for the surgery himself ( after 14 years with the club ).

However, on January 3, 1777, in a skirmish at the beginning of the Battle of Princeton, with General Hugh Mercer down and fatally wounded, Haslet tried to rally Mercer's brigade and was himself killed, shot in the head and killed instantly.

The home also contains around 1, 000 prints from Mercer's extensive collection, as well as over six thousand books, almost all of which were annotated by Mercer himself.

The night his wife went into labour with their child, Mercer made one last effort at therapy ; He introduced Gurney to a patient who also believed himself to be Christ, or, as the patient put it, " the God of electricity ," who would subject an unwitting Gurney to electroshock therapy.

Dr. Anton Mercer was on the verge of a scientific breakthrough during an experiment involving dinosaur DNA, when he was accidentally transformed into a dinosaur-like creature called Mesogog, an evil mastermind with plans to revert Earth back to the age of dinosaurs and turn the Human race into reptilian creatures like himself.

Eventually Mesogog freed himself of his humanity by using a potion created by Elsa to separate out Dr. Anton Mercer.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

The countrywide success of `` Lazybones '' and `` And The Angels Sing '' could only lead to Hollywood, where, besides Harold Arlen, Mercer collaborated with Harry Warren, Jimmy Van Heusen, Richard Whiting, Walter Donaldson, Jerome Kern, and Arthur Schwartz.

Mercer read it, and so had a few of the others, but they could not tell which man had done it.

Miller told Tormé to pick up every song by Mercer and study it and to become a voracious reader of anything he could find, because " all good lyric writers are great readers.

File: Warren County Illinois 1831. png | Between 1831 and 1835, Mercer County was temporarily attached to Warren until it could organize its own county government.

The newly created Mercer and Warren Counties were temporarily attached to Peoria until county governments could be organized.

Mercer, on orders from Washington, moved his column to the right in order to hit the British before they could confront Washington's main army.

After the Mercer Arts Center collapsed in August 1973, there were few locations in New York where unsigned bands could play original music, and some of the Mercer refugees, including Suicide, The Fast, Wayne County and the Magic Tramps all played in the very early days of CBGB. Marky Ramone of the Ramones and Debbie Harry of Blondie ( band ) | Blondie attend a screening of Burning Down the House, a 2009 documentary about CBGB's heyday.

Joe Mercer described his " heart of gold " and likened him to a Border Collie who drives his sheep but could never hurt them.

However, the Bogue plan was defeated by an alliance of fiscal conservatives who opposed such a grandiose plan on general principles and populists who argued that the plan would mainly benefit the rich: for example, the proposed massive Mercer Island park could, at that time, only be reached by boat.

Mercer also had support from the governor of Washington Territory, but the government could not offer any money.

Mercer failed to convince him otherwise, and when he telegraphed to Washington governor Pickering to ask for more money, the governor could not afford it.

When Mercer arrived in Fredericksburg, it was a thriving Scottish community that must have been a happy sanctuary for a Scotsman who could never again see his homeland.

Soldiers at Forts Mercer and Mifflin could fire at anyone attempting to dismantle these obstacles.

When they finished writing the song, Mercer called a friend, singer Margaret Whiting, and asked if they could come over and play it for her.

Mercer Ellington refused to tell Duke of the passing of Gonsalves, fearing the shock might further accelerate his father's decline.

Mercer wondered how long the super-condamine had lasted him.

Mercer would first confront O ' Toole, then later show him how it's done.