One of his oft-repeated stories was how he " discovered " Madonna and was amazed that she hand-wrote a three-page letter for a part that didn't even pay.

One oft-repeated " official " story states that Mel Blanc patterned the voices of both Daffy Duck and Sylvester the cat on Schlesinger.

One oft-repeated story featuring Captain Crunch goes as follows: Draper picked up a public phone, then proceeded to " phreak " his call around the world.

He was known for his oft-repeated suggestion, “ Why don ’ t you just start with the second paragraph ?” One reporter quoted Carr as having two acceptable standards for a good lead: " Make me cry or make me horny.

One of the most intelligible pieces of lyric in the whole song is the oft-repeated line " Standing in the garden, waiting for the sun to shine ," which is reminiscent of a line from an earlier Beatles tune, " I Am the Walrus ", which contains the line " Sitting in an English garden, waiting for the sun.

One anecdote describes Thomas Hunt Morgan banning the Friden calculator from his department at Caltech, saying " Well, I am like a guy who is prospecting for gold along the banks of the Sacramento River in 1849.

One famous anecdote has her mother bartering a German-made sewing machine for sixty kilograms of rice with which to feed the family.

One anecdote has Quinn arriving on-set for the first time in full costume, whereupon Lean, mistaking him for a native, asked his assistant to ring Quinn and notify him that they were replacing him with the new arrival.

One anecdote of the conflict recounts June 1879 when the Santa Fe defended its roundhouse in Pueblo with Dodge City toughs led by Bat Masterson ; on that occasion, D & RG treasurer R. F. Weitbrec paid the defenders to leave.

One anecdote relates to the elevated section passing through

One anecdote attributes the origin of the word to a meeting of the Preston Temperance Society in 1833.

One of his fellow students was RAF Sgt Jack Morton, who told a humorous anecdote while he and his fellow student Rennie were in the same class: " At the end of our primary course we were posted to a Basic Flying School at Cochran Field, Macon, Georgia.

One commonly related anecdote recounts how, at an early Girl Scouts board meeting, she stood on her head to display the new Girl Scout shoes that she happened to be wearing.

One interesting anecdote therein relates the story of a publicity stunt that came out of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago where the campaign had printed dollar bills with Gregory's image on them, some of which made it into circulation, causing considerable problems, but priceless publicity.

One anecdote has the village children, displeased with his serious temperament, throwing him into Lake Erie.

One well known and possibly apocryphal anecdote maintains that when Vernet was asked to remove a certain obnoxious general from one of his paintings, he replied, " I am a painter of history, sire, and I will not violate the truth ," hence demonstrating his fidelity to representing war truthfully.

One anecdote from the period after Labour's 1945 landslide election victory was that, late on a Friday afternoon, he was left a number of red ministerial boxes, with a note inviting him to take the boxes home to read over the weekend if he so desired.

One anecdote states that he would always cover one side of a book while reading because a casual glance at the other page would commit it to memory.

One anecdote is that around 1961, a certain cooperative or guild of commodities based in Shizuoka Prefecture picked large-sized green leaves of shiso and shipped them out to the Osaka market, and gained popularity, so that became the trade name for bunches of picked green leaves forever after.

One anecdote relates a story of Zita giving her own food or that of her master to the poor.

One anecdote often attributed to British wine merchants is " Buy on an apple and sell on cheese " meaning that if a wine tastes good when paired with a raw, uncooked apple it must be truly good and pairing any wine with cheese will make it more palatable to the average consumer and easier to sell.

One older anecdote tells of a fisherman who provoked a porbeagle into leaping from the water and tearing his clothes.

One anecdote involves the Serapeum and its peculiarly-shaped dome.

One anecdote that illustrates this is Husein-kapetan's alleged response to whether he was scared of waging war against the Ottoman Empire.

Former Formula One driver Eddie Cheever offered an interesting anecdote from 1981 in which his Tyrrell was tagged for a weight check in qualifying.

One well known anecdote regarding Choe in these years regards a putative piece of verse he dispatched to Wang Geon, the founder of the Goryeo Dynasty.

One anecdote from this race is that he barged into Ron Barry at second Canal Turn ; Barry asked " What the **** are you doing?

One anecdote ran that one warrior had so successfully camouflaged himself all day in full sight of the Germans that a German officer had wandered over to what he thought was a bush, and had urinated on the motionless head of the Moroccan soldier who bore the trial well, but who marked that particular officer down for special attention that night.

One struck the muzzle of one of the rifles that projected from the shoulder pack.

One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.

One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.

One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.

One was an article on the U.N. by Alice Widener from the Cincinnati Enquirer.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.

One is Greece is not yet suffering from overpopulation.

One serves society by conducting a business from which a certain number of employees draw their means of subsistence ; ;

Volumes One and Two, selected from the sound tracks of a television series, contain `` conversations with the elder wise men of our day ''.

One of the problems associated with the expressway stems from the basic idea.

One always wakes up, even from one's own dreams.

One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

One morning, we discovered not only that the pennies were missing from the idol but that a cigarette had been stubbed out in its lap.

One female, collected on an island off the coast of Nicaragua, was gravid and measured 4 feet 8 inches from snout to vent ( her tail should be between 6 and 7 inches long ).

One of the most intriguing questions is whether the recent departures of the Federal Reserve authorities from confining their open market operations to Treasury bills will spread into longer-term Government securities in the next few months.

One social-class factor which plays a large part in educational policy today is the fact that a great many school and college teachers are upward mobile from urban lower-class and lower-middle-class families.

One of the outstanding assets of the present production is the restoration of the St. Basil's scene, usually omitted from performances and rarely included in a published score.

One afternoon during a cold, powdery snowstorm, Fogg took off for Concord from the St. John field.

One old man told me that when he was a boy he was kicked in the head by a fractious mule and had his scalp laid back from the entire front of his head.

One young girl told me how her mother removed a wart from her finger by soaking a copper penny in vinegar for three days and then painting the finger with the liquid several times.

One wart cure was to wrap it in a hair from a blonde gypsy.

One of the vexatious problems to first confront President Kennedy was the property lying just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.