The slaves appeared to be in good health and at work under John Palfrey's overseer.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

Mrs. Child, who had once apologized for sending editor Palfrey a book on slavery, now confided that she had helped one of Henry Palfrey's slaves escape to Canada some years before, but asked him not to advertise the fact in Louisiana.

Palfrey's investiture as head of school was celebrated on September 26, 2012.

Palfrey's brothers each received lots of sixteen Negroes, and for bookkeeping purposes it was agreed that all lots were to be valued at $6,666.66.

Despite his apprehensions about his personal safety, Palfrey's reception in New Orleans was more than cordial.

Once the question of emancipation was settled to Palfrey's satisfaction, he faced a real problem in placing the freedmen in suitable homes as servants.

Delauney had found out that Potter was Palfrey's guest at the tennis club and got the story out of him.

Palfrey's autobiography contains a melodramatic account of two perilous days spent among the planters of Attakapas, `` many of whom were coarse & passionate people, much excited by what they heard of my plans ''.

Not all of Palfrey's slaves were aboard the Bashaw.

Two of these were included in Palfrey's lot.

That night at the restaurant, the head waiter ( John Le Mesurier ) cannot find Palfrey's booking at first ; he does finally locate it under a slightly different name, but still refuses to seat them, as they are late.

When Raymond Delauney ( Terry-Thomas ), a casual acquaintance of Palfrey's, arrives and sees April, he invites them to his table, where he proceeds to try to seduce April and cast Palfrey in a bad light at every opportunity.

* Irene Handl as Mrs. Stringer, Palfrey's landlady

When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.

`` My dress needs some work on it ''.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.

But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

Then she rounded on Weston and cried, `` You always did Wright's dirty work!!

Supposing you or I were being accused in this manner, and yet we were doing our level best to carry on our work.

Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.

And I was to go to work on that odd matter.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

Like ours, the economy of the space merchants must constantly expand in order to survive, and, like ours, it is based on the principle of `` ever increasing everybody's work and profits in the circle of consumption ''.

Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.

The work week of attendants who are on duty 65 hours and more per week should be reduced.

But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.

`` Argiento, this is senseless '', he complained, not liking to work on the wet floors, particularly in cold weather.

Kate drew more and more on her affection for Joel through the hot days of summer work.

She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

`` How you going to work with a child hanging on you ''??

Further investigation and theoretical work showed that the effect was a radiationless effect more than an internal conversion effect by use of elementary quantum mechanics and transition rate and transition probability calculations.

His work in engraving seems to have had an intimidating effect upon his German successors, the " Little Masters " who attempted few large engravings but continued Dürer's themes in small, rather cramped compositions.

Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.

Both Richard Schickel and Andrew Sarris have also written that many of the gags in his silent films needed the " intimacy of the camera " to work and could not have been performed on the stage to the same effect.

In the early work of Max Planck, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, the existence of energy in discrete quantities had been postulated, in order to explain phenomena, such as the spectrum of black-body radiation, the photoelectric effect, and the stability and spectrum of atoms such as hydrogen, that had eluded explanation by, and even appeared to be in contradiction with, classical physics.

In the course of very accurate quantitative chemical work, he was weighing samples in a partially evacuated chamber to reduce the effect of air currents, and noticed the weighings were disturbed when sunlight shone on the balance.

In this work, Doppler postulated his principle ( later coined the Doppler effect ) that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer, and he tried to use this concept for explaining the colour of binary stars.

These devices work on the principle known as the magnetocaloric effect.

They both viewed the work of British landscape artists John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, which confirmed to their belief that their style of open air painting gave the truest depiction of light and atmosphere, an effect that they felt could not be achieved in the studio alone.

He believed that work of quality should be brief and focus on a specific single effect.

Hans Christian Ørsted's discovery of the magnetic effect of electrical currents in 1820 was immediately recognized as an epoch-making advance, although he left further work on electromagnetism to others.

This work manifests itself as the effect of force ( s ) applied through distances within the target system.

In addition to strength, explosives display a second characteristic, which is their shattering effect or brisance ( from the French meaning to " break "), which is distinguished and separate from their total work capacity.

The shoot-out that ends Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western " Dollars " trilogy is a notable example of how these elements work together to produce an effect: The shot selection goes from very wide to very close and tense ; the length of shots decreases as the sequence progresses towards its end ; the music builds.

Not only do they work as part of the deco but they also have a calming effect.

This type of effect is what allows card counting schemes to work ( for example in the game of blackjack ).

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Because his task was to construct the wilful choices of his Punch editors, who probably took their cue from The Times and would have felt the suggestions of political tensions from Parliament as well, Tenniel ’ s work, as was its design, could be scathing in effect.

It is, in fact, full of theatrical codes harking back to the Dadaists ' Vox Humana experiments after World War One, Alphonse de Lamartine's " La Voix humaine ", part of his larger work Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and the effect of the creation of the Vox Humana (" voix humaine "), an organ stop of the Regal Class by Church organ masters ( late 16th century ) that attempted to imitate the human voice but never succeeded in doing better than the sound of a male chorus at a distance.

Elizabeth viewed the partially finished results at Kenilworth in 1572, but the complete effect of Leicester's work was only apparent during the queen's last visit in 1575.

Practical problems with this new electro-optical effect made Heilmeier continue to work on scattering effects in liquid crystals and finally the achievement of the first operational liquid crystal display based on what he called the dynamic scattering mode ( DSM ).

Recent work tries to take into account the roles of differences in parent bodies and the specifics of their orbits, ejection velocities off the solid mass of the core of a comet, radiation pressure from the sun, the Poynting – Robertson effect, and the Yarkovsky effect on the particles of different sizes and rates of rotation to explain differences between meteor showers in terms of being predominantly fireballs or small meteors.