David reached for the pair of pistols in the saddlebags at his feet.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

The proposal was made by Dr. David S. Jenkins after he and Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams, Jr., a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting.

That you have refused to drive him into the family business or push him into a profession so you can say at the club, `` Of course David has known since he was twelve he wanted to be an engineer '' -- or a lawyer, or an editor??

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

In 1985 David Gower's England team was strengthened by the return of Gooch and Emburey as well as the emergence at international level of Tim Robinson and Mike Gatting.

That summer, Bronson Alcott let Henry David Thoreau borrow his ax to prepare his home at Walden Pond.

David, who was accepted as king by Judah alone, was meanwhile reigning at Hebron, and for some time war was carried on between the two parties.

Abner was indignant at the rebuke, and immediately opened negotiations with David, who welcomed him on the condition that his wife Michal should be restored to him.

The first separate edition of Alcaeus was by Christian David Jani and it was published at Halle in 1780.

In 1113, perhaps at Henry's instigation, and with the support of his Anglo-Norman, David demanded, and received, additional lands in Lothian along the Upper Tweed and Teviot.

Alexander had at least one illegitimate child, Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair, who was later to be involved in a revolt against David I in the 1130s.

Alexander died in April 1124 at his court at Stirling ; his brother David, probably the acknowledged heir since the death of Sybilla, succeeded him.

At the Mongol camp near Kars Andrew had met a certain David, who in December 1248 appeared at the court of King Louis IX of France in Cyprus.

* 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins – at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.

On August 31, the Diamondbacks acquired former World Series MVP David Eckstein to fill the hole at second base which was opened after Orlando Hudson was placed on the disabled list.

11: 11 ); and when David fled from Jerusalem at the time of Absalom's conspiracy, the Ark was carried along with him until he ordered Zadok the priest to return it to Jerusalem ( 2 Sam.

In 1955, David Brown bought the Tickford coachbuilding company and its site at Tickford Street in Newport Pagnell.

* David A. Plaisted University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The only one of the priests to escape from Saul's massacre, he fled to David at Keilah, taking with him the ephod and other priestly regalies ( 1 Sam.

He was of great service to David, especially at the time of the rebellion of Absalom ( 2 Sam.

The musical premiered in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre on April 15, 1975 and starred Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, David Kernan, Liz Robertson, and Diane Langton, with Hermione Gingold reprising her role as Madame Armfeldt.

Clinton brought Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat together at Camp David.

A number of these were collected by David H. Ahl while he worked at DEC and published in a newsletter he compiled.

However, Edward's forces overran the country after defeating Bruce's small army at the Battle of Methven.

Henry Austin Bruce's grave at Aberffrwd cemetery in Mountain Ash, Wales.

The words on Henry Austin Bruce's grave at Aberffrwd cemetery in Mountain Ash, Wales.

* 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.

Bruce's queen, Elizabeth, his daughter Marjorie, his sisters Christina and Mary, and Isabella MacDuff were captured in a sanctuary at Tain, and sent to harsh imprisonment, which included Mary and Isabella being hung in a cage at Roxburgh and Berwick castles respectively for about four years, and Bruce's brother Neil was executed.

In accordance with Bruce's written request, the heart was buried at Melrose Abbey in Roxburghshire.

Controversy erupted when he stated, " Equagesic was not at all involved in Bruce's first collapse ".

The most irreconcilable of Bruce's Scottish enemies also came: Ingram de Umfraville, a former Guardian of Scotland, and his kinsman the Earl of Angus, as well as others of the MacDougalls, MacCanns and Sir John Comyn of Badenoch, the only son of the Red Comyn, who was born and raised in England and was now returning to Scotland to avenge his father's killing by Bruce at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries in 1306.

Shortly after, Bruce's army secured victory at the Battle of Bannockburn.

Sir Christopher Seton ( Bruce's brother in law ) had been captured at Loch Doon and was hurried to Dumfries to be tried for treason in general and more specifically for being present at Comyn's killing.

The poem opens with a description of the state of Scotland at the death of Alexander III ( 1286 ) and concludes ( more or less ) with the death of Douglas and the burial of the Bruce's heart ( 1332 ).

Lenny Bruce's performances at the Go Go were controversial.

Robert Burns acknowledged his debt to Harry, incorporating the following lines from Harry's Wallace in his own poem Robert Bruce's Address to his Army at Bannockburn ( Scots, wha hae wi ' Wallace bled ):

However, it should be remembered that many of Edward Bruce's opponents in Ireland were in fact Irish themselves and Irish vassals of Anglo Normans were even employed in earlier English attempts to subjugate Scotland, such as at the Battle of Falkirk.

When he was Leader of the Opposition, Bruce's successor James Scullin ( 1929 – 32 ) had objected to the cost of running The Lodge and, true to his word, he and his wife lived at the Hotel Canberra ( now the Hyatt Hotel ) during his Prime Ministership.

In 1975, Perrine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress ( Drama ) and won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as comedian Lenny Bruce's wife, stripper Honey Bruce, in Bob Fosse's Lenny ( 1974 ).

Bruce's new tactic was a response to a crushing defeat for the Scots at Falkirk when the first recorded use of the schiltron by a Scottish army failed in the face of a combination of Welsh conscripted longbowmen, English archers and English cavalry.

Scheduled for an experimental lobotomy by Arkham himself, he's spared by the ICoV taking hold of the Asylum, wanting to use him and Jezebel Jet, Bruce's fianceè at the time, as bait.

Bruce's scheme evolved into what would become the Glasgow Inner Ring Road, a motorway " box " which would encircle the city centre, connected to the Renfrew Bypass at its south western corner, and the Monkland Motorway ( built over the former route of the Monkland Canal ) towards Edinburgh at its north eastern corner.