Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

When Hooper fell into financial difficulties, the Britannica was managed by Sears Roebuck for 18 years ( 1920 – 23, 1928 – 43 ).

In the 1890s the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, which was distributed to millions of Americans homes, offered a syringe and a small amount of cocaine for $ 1. 50.

The first of these was the production of sulphuric acid by the lead chamber process invented by the Englishman John Roebuck ( James Watt's first partner ) in 1746.

In 1969, Sears, Roebuck & Co. was the largest retailer in the world, with approximately 350, 000 employees.

Initially endowed by Julius Rosenwald, the Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist, it was supported by the Commercial Club of Chicago and opened in 1933 during the Century of Progress Exposition.

Clarence Gilyard remained on, but with the addition to Roebuck to the cast and the character of Cliff Lewis becoming a second private investigator, his role was diminished somewhat.

The concept was taken to the U. S. by Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company, who visited the Deutsches Museum museum with his young son in 1911.

This was later developed at Roebuck Springs under the leadership of club women.

* Richard Sears, founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company, was born in a neighboring town and grew up in Spring Valley.

About the only way things were purchased away from home was through the Sears and Roebuck Catalog.

In the 1920s, Sears, Roebuck and Company was a major mail order company.

The Broome Bird Observatory, sited in pindan woodland close to the northern shore of Roebuck Bay, was established by Birds Australia in 1988, and formally opened in 1990.

The House of Commons was moved by Roebuck to reverse the sentence, which it did 29 June by a majority of 46, after having heard from Palmerston on 25 June.

John Arthur Roebuck ( 28 December 1802 – 30 November 1879 ), British politician, was born at Madras, in India.

He became associated with James Watt when Watt's business partner, John Roebuck, was unable to pay a debt to Boulton, who accepted Roebuck's share of Watt's patent as settlement.

Arnold was also bullied by other children at school — where he was known as " Bonehead " and his best " friend ", Porky Roebuck, once spearheaded a plan to eat him during a Space Scouts survival course.

Rimmer later recounts an occasion on which Roebuck threw his favourite shoes into the school septic tank whilst he was wearing them.

The company was formed as a joint-venture between the Robert Simpson Company ( Simpson's ), an existing Canadian department store retailer, and Sears, Roebuck and Co. of the United States.

The publication of these diaries as New Voyage Round the World in 1697 was a popular sensation creating interest at the British Admiralty and in 1699 Dampier was given the command of the Roebuck with a commission from the Admiralty ( and by inference King William III who had reigned jointly with Queen Mary II before her death in 1694 ).

Sears, Roebuck & Co. first marketed their Sears Catalog Homes to the general public in 1908.

Graves first wrote the book under the title of The Roebuck in the Thicket in a three-week period during January 1944, only a month after finishing The Golden Fleece.

* July 26-William Dampier's expedition to New Holland ( Australia ) in HMS Roebuck reaches Dirk Hartog Island at the mouth of what he calls Shark Bay in Western Australia and begins producing the first known detailed record of Australian flora and fauna.

His father worked for a large bakery in Little Rock, Colonial Bakery, and then went to work for the Little Rock Fire Department ( rising to the rank of captain ), while his mother at first worked for Sears Roebuck & Company, and then in the controller's office at the state capitol.

It is the first time that a project of this type is presented publicly since the proposal that John A. Roebuck had made in the same direction to John George Lambton while he was a governor of the Canadas in 1838.

In 1933, Sears, Roebuck and Co. produced the first of its famous Christmas catalogs known as the " Sears Wishbook ", a catalog featuring toys and gifts and separate from the annual Christmas Catalog.

The Sears Roebuck catalog first offered rouge for lips and cheeks by the late 1890s.

In return, Kleinworts were tempted into their first new issue: the flotation of Sears Roebuck & Co. in 1906, arranged by Goldman Sachs and Lehmans in New York with Kleinworts underwriting the London sales.

An arrangement of Carl Orff's composition Carmina Burana for 5-string banjo appears on his first album and other musical fusions include his adaptation of Luiz Bonfá's " Manhã de Carnaval ", a lengthy variation on " Memphis Tennessee " by Chuck Berry, and compositions derived from works of J. S. Bach and Roebuck Staples.

A large retail outlet, Temple's B & O Cash Store, shipped merchandise nationwide, before being bought by Sears and Roebuck in 1929 and later closed in 1954.

In his later years, MacBride lived in his mother's home, Roebuck House, that served as a meeting place for many years for Irish nationalists, as well as in the Parisian arrondissement where he grew up with his mother, and enjoyed strolling along boyhood paths.

He believed that they made kidnapping raids and ranged as far south as Roebuck Bay ( later Broome ) where ‘ quite a fleet ’ was seen around 1866.

However, Phantascope is also the name given to two different, later, projection-based moving picture devices by John Arthur Roebuck Rudge.

Peter Roebuck later claimed Katich should be the Australian cricket captain after Ricky Ponting came under fire during the January 2008 SCG Test.

Roebuck left the growing company a few years later, and Sears went on with a new business partner, clothier Julius Rosenwald, who became president of the business in 1908 upon Sears ' retirement at age 44.

He traveled around the country, bouncing from job to job, and worked as catalogue model for Sears Roebuck & Co. An acting coach suggested that he try the stage, and Tierney joined the Black Friars theatre group and later the American-Irish Theatre.

1746: A Sulphuric acid factory is set up at Steelhouse Lane to use the lead chamber process invented by its co-founder John Roebuck, Roebuck and local businessman Samuel Garbett later relocate to Prestonpans in Scotland, taking with them several skilled men from the Birmingham factory, it is here in 1762 where Roebuck takes out a patent for making malleable iron.

* Edward A. Brennan ( class of 1951 ) is the former CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( 1986 – 95 ); and later served on the boards of American Airlines, McDonald's, 3M, and Exelon, among others.

Among the most adventurous of her licensing ventures were a two-season lower-priced, mail-order fashion line for Sears, Roebuck & Co. ( 1916 – 17 ), which promoted her clothing in special de luxe catalogues, and a contract to design interiors for limousines and town cars for the Chalmers Motor Co, later Chrysler Corporation ( 1917 ).

The expedition found no gold, but good pastoral land was found, and as a result a small pastoral venture was later established at Roebuck Bay.

On hearing in Fremantle of the failure at Camden Harbour, they decided to sail for the settlement at Roebuck Bay instead, but after failing to enter the bay due to adverse winds, the settlers were disembarked at Tien Tsin, later to be called Cossack the chief port and landing at Nickol Bay.

He was kept as a prisoner of war on the Roebuck, and later on the Solebay, in the Delaware River.