However, in 1929 with fourteen for 119 against the touring South Africans, Mercer perhaps justified those who wondered why he was always overlooked for representative cricket.

Mercer himself could not tell how long it was before B'dikkat came back.

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

A steel beam weighing one ton and ten feet long was given to the county by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in March 2011 and is now displayed at Mercer County Park.

Twin boys were born in their dwelling during the first winter, originating a long life of descendants, among whom was Henry Chapman Mercer.

Route 175 is a short, long state highway in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.

Kenny Thomson and Bonar Mercer, both long servants, were freed at the end of the season.

Welk frequently had performers sing and play standards from the big band era and the first half of the 20th century ( Welk had a particular admiration for contemporaries Hoagy Carmichael, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer and similar composers ), although the show's repertoire was in reality much broader and would often include pop songs from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s as well as country music, patriotic music, and religious music, especially if it was thought to appeal to older listeners ( and, as Welk stated in 1956, " as long as it's done in the champagne style ").

The Doctor confronts Davros in the lab, but his chance to kill him is lost when Stien's conditioning re-asserts itself long enough to let Lytton's troops kill Lt. Mercer.

B'dikkat had turned to the next knot of people when the super-condamine hit 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.

From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.

When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.

He had yet to meet Harold Arlen, for although they had `` collaborated '' on `` Satan's Li'l Lamb '', Mercer and Harburg had worked from a lead sheet the composer had furnished them.

When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

On the morning of November 17th, Cornwallis and 2,000 men had left Philadelphia with the object of capturing Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey.

Mercer did not know what an `` Earth-week '' was, since he had not been a well-read man before his conviction, but he got nothing more from the half-man at that time.

When he said it, they thought it exceedingly profound, though none of them understood it, since it was simply the amount of time that Mercer had been on Shayol:

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

His son Mercer Ellington, who had already been handling all administrative aspects of his father's business for several decades, led the band until his own death in 1996.

The Civic Auditorium ( later the Opera House, now McCaw Hall ), the ice arena ( later Mercer Arena ), and the Civic Field ( rebuilt in 1946 as the High School Memorial Stadium ), all built in 1927 had been placed there based on that plan, as was an armory ( the Food Circus during the fair, later Center House ).

Mercer Ellington has stated that Juan Tizol invented the melody to " Caravan " in 1936 as a result of his days studying music in Puerto Rico ; where they couldn't afford much sheet music so the teacher would turn the music upside down after they had learned to play it right-side up.

* Ron Mercer, American former basketball player at the University of Kentucky who also had a career in the National Basketball Association

Inspired by a Dear John letter he had received from his girlfriend, Raksin wrote the haunting theme for which Johnny Mercer later wrote lyrics.

By 1980, he began a more active film career having appeared as a soldier in Steven Spielberg's big-budget comedy 1941 and had a supporting role as Burton Mercer, " Joliet " Jake's probation / parole officer in The Blues Brothers.

Host Rick Mercer read a spot saying Hull has been misquoted, that he had actually said, " Sittler had some good ideas.

That same year he began a relationship with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, directed by Duke ’ s son Mercer, a relationship that lasted more than15 years.

Edwards, along with Barrie Youngfellow, Paul Kreppel and the late Marian Mercer, were the only four members of the It's a Living cast who lasted during the network and syndicated runs.

Of all the cast, only Gail Edwards ( Dot Higgins ); Marian Mercer ( Nancy Beebe ); Barrie Youngfellow ( Jan Hoffmeyer Gray ) and Paul Kreppel ( Sonny Mann ) lasted all the way through the show's network and syndicated runs.

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

For him Mercer produced the lyric to `` Out Of Breath Scared To Death Of You '', introduced in that most successful of all the Gaieties, by Sterling Holloway.

Mercer's Whiteman association brought him into contact with Hoagy Carmichael, whose `` Snowball '' Mercer relyriced as `` Lazybones '', in which form it became a hit and marked the real beginning of Mercer's song-writing career.

Mercer stammered, not knowing what B'dikkat meant, and the two-nosed man answered for him, `` I think he has a nice baby head, but it isn't big enough for you to take yet ''.

The half-man woke, recognized Mercer and gave him a healthily sleepy grin.

Only the memory of previous hurt, bewilderment and perplexity made him sure that if he did not ask B'dikkat when he, Mercer, was happy, the answer would no longer be available when he needed it.

Howard, bought him a Mercer race car and Hawks began racing and working on his new car during the summer vacation in California.

The main Earth religion is Mercerism, in which Empathy Boxes link simultaneous users into a collective consciousness based on the suffering of Wilbur Mercer, a man who takes an endless walk up a mountain while stones are thrown at him, the pain of which the users share.

" Jerome Kern considered him the supreme male interpreter of his songs and Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer also admired his unique treatment of their work.

* The site of the Mercer Oak, against which the dying General Hugh Mercer rested while his men around him continued to fight the Battle of Princeton in 1777.

Searching for a replacement for Costello, Lou Fleischer heard Mercer singing the Popeye song and gave him the job of doing the Popeye voice.

Mercer and his troops were overrun and Washington sent some militia under Brigadier General John Cadwalader to help him.

Mercer was surrounded by British soldiers and they shouted at him " Surrender you damn rebel !".

The only Americans who were shown outsmarting Mercer were: a university student who spent her time laughing at him ( before finally answering ), and a small child who pointed out to his mother, who was also tricked, that Canada had provinces, not states.

This final stay would come to an end when the Mercer County Prosecutor informed Kimberling the Grand Jury had adjourned after voting to discontinue its investigation concerning Wendel without any complaint charging him with murder .< ref > Marshall, Erwin E., Prosecutor of the Pleas.

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

Ex-Prime Minister Paul Martin gave him a private tour of 24 Sussex Drive and former New Democratic Party leader Ed Broadbent made snow angels with Mercer on Parliament Hill.

Although the romantic relationship came first, Lunz is also Mercer's long-time partner in business, who discovered him, fostered his career, and is currently the executive producer of The Rick Mercer Report.

A horrible lab accident leads to the transformation of Dr. Mercer into the evil Mesogog, and also leaves Smitty for dead until Mesogog revives him as the evil cyborg Zeltrax.

When the White Dino Ranger appears, Tommy's dedication to saving the lives of innocents seems to give Tommy cause to show no mercy to him, even after he discovers that the White Dino Ranger is Trent Mercer.

In November 2011, the press reported that Mercer had been taped making disparaging remarks about David Cameron, calling him " despicable " and describing him as an " arse " and " the worst politician in British history since William Gladstone ".