She was almost sick when Bobbie came home with the news that Poor John had won the job.

She was forced into patriotism in spite of herself, and the glory won by Salamis was paid for by the loss of her trade and the decay of her marine.

She also won the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for Living on Light.

She won several other awards from various film critic associations for the performance.

She won so much land for her father's kingdom that Zeus became enraged and changed her into a monster.

She won an award for the Van Halen music video of the song " Right Now ", which she produced.

She won the Logan Medal of the arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, and became a member of the National Academy in 1902.

She is best known for playing the title character in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal for which she won a Golden Globe Award.

She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

She sang only two songs in the film, " Que Sera, Sera ( Whatever Will Be, Will Be )" which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and " We'll Love Again ".

She won what would become her most famous acting role, that of Kimberly Drummond on Diff ' rent Strokes.

She won the titles of Miss Arkansas in 1981 and Miss America in 1982.

She knighted Francis Drake after his circumnavigation of the globe from 1577 to 1580, and he won fame for his raids on Spanish ports and fleets.

She won a listeners ' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948 – 1949, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March.

She has won the U. S. Championship on three other occasions, in 2007, 2010, and 2012.

She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U. S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.

She won her first seven games before drawing the final game.

She also won the brilliancy prize for her game against Pavlina Angelova.

She won the match 5½ – 4½ and won the largest prize money to that point in her career of $ 110, 000.

She won the match 5 – 3 by winning two games with the remaining ending in draws.

She won the game with exceptional positional play.

She won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her performance in Lars von Trier's Melancholia ( 2011 ).

She later directed Blanchett in A Streetcar Named Desire ( play ) at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia, which ran September through October 2009, and then continued from 29 October to 21 November 2009 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where it won a

She won five Grand Slam singles titles ( three Australian Opens, one Wimbledon, and one US Open ).

She shared the Silver Bear Award for Best Ensemble Cast at the Berlin International Film Festival for her performance in 8 Women ( 2002 ).

She named the town Silverton after Silver Creek, which flowed by the several hundred yards to the west of the oak.

The youngest of ten children ( of whom she and four others, all girls, survived ) of a high-ranking Taiwan ( ROC ) diplomat, she was born and raised in Washington, D. C. She graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and went on to receive a degree in journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1969.

The latter cast also won a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution, at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival ( Halle Berry won Best Actress at Berlin in 2002 ).. She won the Best Actress award at the Montréal World Film Festival ( in 2002 for Merci pour le chocolat ), at the Moscow International Film Festival ( in 1991 for Madame Bovary ), at the Deutscher Filmpreis ( in 1991 for Malina ) and twice at the David di Donatello ( in 1978 for La Dentellière and in 2001 for The Piano Teacher ).

She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 ( the Silver Street Free Kindergarten ).

She was soon breaking records, earning a Silver C Badge No 25 in 1934.

She is the only member of the Guardian Senshi to not use honorifics when shouting Usagi's name, something that is reserved for people who are extremely close, during the use of the Silver Crystal in the same movie.

She was voted " best personality " by the graduating class at Wheaton High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

She had taken the job in order to work with the director, Joan Micklin Silver, having admired the work Silver had done on the film Hester Street.

She has several run-ins with Fabletown spy Cinderella over the years, which culminate with them facing off in the mini-series " Cinderella: Fables Are Forever ", where Dorothy reveals that she'd been using the Silver Shoes to help disguise herself on her mission to kill Cindy.

She initially dislikes Elphaba's sister Nessarose ( who goes on to become the Wicked Witch of the East ), but becomes close to her after Elphaba leaves Shiz, and enchants the Silver Shoes that enable Nessarose to walk without any assistance.

She also played on the Canada women's national ice hockey team, winning Gold Medals at the IIHF Women's World Championship in 1992 and 1994, and the Silver Medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

She grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland and Beverly Hills, California, attending Beverly Hills High School and the University of California at Irvine.

She met actor Joel McCrea on the set of the 1933 film The Silver Cord.

She explains further by comparing the characters of Mattie Silver and Zeena Frome.

She produced films in the latter phase of her carrer and also won the Silver Lotus National award for her film Dweepa.

She is founder of the child protection charity ChildLine and is currently in the process of creating a helpline for older people, to be called The Silver Line, designed to combat loneliness.

She also won the Carl Foreman Award for Newcomer in British Film at the 2000 BAFTA Awards, the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival and the Silver Hugo for Best Director at the Chicago International Film Festival.

She also appeared in the King George Silver Jubilee program in 1935.

She also played the role of Joan Silver on the short lived series Temporarily Yours in 1997.

She appeared in the premiere of the Nicky Silver play The Lyons at the Off-Broadway Vineyard Theatre, beginning in September 2011, through November 11.

She also teamed up with the Silver Surfer to battle the Elders of the Universe, who attempted to destroy Galactus and thereby come the oldest living being in the universe.

* In the 1994 play Pterodactyls by Nicky Silver, the novel is mentioned by the character Emma: " She reads poems by Emily Bronté and I read chapters from the The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.