* Satirical newspaper The Onion ran a story entitled " Craig Biggio Blames Media Pressure For Stalling At 285 Hit-By-Pitches " as Biggio closed in on the record of 287 hit-by-pitches.

Stalling for time, he demanded to know by what authority the fort was being entered.

Together they sampled iconic riffs from Raymond Scott, Carl Stalling, Howlin ' Wolf, and The Andrews Sisters, among others.

The original basis of the cartoons was their musical novelty with the first Silly Symphony cartoons featuring scores by Carl Stalling.

Iwerks was soon lured by Powers into opening his own studio with an exclusive contract, while Stalling would also later leave Disney to join Iwerks.

Warner Bros. was already the owner of extensive music-publishing holdings, whose tunes had appeared in countless Warners cartoons ( arranged by Carl Stalling ) and television shows ( arranged by Max Steiner ).

* November 29 – Carl Stalling, American composer ( b. 1891 )

* November 10 – Carl Stalling, American musician ( d. 1972 )

The sound version contained a soundtrack by Carl W. Stalling.

* Carl Stalling – Composer and Arranger for the Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes cartoons from the 1930s through the 1950s.

The Battle of Stalling Down was fought near Cowbridge when the large English army of King Henry IV of England met a combined force of French and Welsh soldiers under Owain Glyndŵr in 1403.

Catarina is the subject of the Texas Country song " Cowboy From Catarina " by Max Stalling.

Carl Stalling at Schlesinger / Warner Bros. and Scott Bradley at MGM composed numerous cartoon soundtracks, creating original material as well as incorporating familiar classical and popular melodies.

The invention of the click track is sometimes credited to Carl Stalling, although other sources have given it to Max Steiner and Scott Bradley.

Stalling industrialisation led to social conflict and hunger during 1812 Luddite riots that led to the smashing of labour-reducing machines.

He later added Carl Stalling and Mel Blanc and collectively these men created such famous characters as Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and Bugs Bunny.

" Other Warner Bros. peers such as musical co-ordinator Carl Stalling and animator Tex Avery stood by Clampett during his talks on the cartoon industry in the 1960s and 1970s.

The rest of the film was scored, as was standard for Warner cartoons, by Carl W. Stalling.

* Musical score by Carl W. Stalling

It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Friz Freleng, with musical supervision by Carl W. Stalling.

It was directed by Bob Clampett, written by Warren Foster, and features music by Carl W. Stalling.

* Music: Carl W. Stalling, Milt Franklyn, John Seely, William Lava, William L. Hendricks, Walter Greene, Eugene Poddany, Doug Goodwin, Rob Walsh, Quinn Amper, Fred Strittmatter, Dean Elliot

Stalling while Willow looks for Xander, Buffy uses the excuse that the minister is also a doctor and the ceremony will be delayed while he performs an emergency c-section.

Classical music can be heard at times, which pays homage to classic Warner Bros. animation and the scores of Carl Stalling.

Glyndŵr's presence at nearby Carmarthen in the summer of 1403 is well attested, and it may be that an incursion into nearby Glamorgan produced a confrontation of which the battle of Stalling Down, as remembered today, is a manifestation.

Many consider him to be an heir to the style of Carl Stalling.

Thus, Stalling establishes one of the cartoon's themes, that sinners may be redeemed, from the opening credits.

One man, witnessing the gangster battles, hurries over to the nearest telephone booth and orders the operator to connect him to the police, but the dim witted operator takes so long to make the connection that the gangsters ' gunfire shoots the telephone booth and man in half, to which the operator says " Sorry!

Mrs. Wilberforce ( Katie Johnson ) lectures the gangsters ( from left to right: Cecil Parker as Claude (" Major Courtney "), Herbert Lom as Louis (" Mr. Harvey "), Alec Guinness (" Professor Marcus "), and Danny Green as One-Round (" Mr. Lawson ") after discovering their crime.

Chitty tracks the gangsters ' route, wakes Commander and Mrs. Pott, and they drive off in pursuit.

More than once I was confronted by professional gamblers, `` bookies '', loan `` sharks '', gangsters, `` thugs '' and `` finger men '' -- people of a class I did not even know existed -- to repay my husband's staggering losses, `` or else '' I shuddered to think that someone so dear to me could even associate with such a sinister milieu.

The attempt to enforce that belief ushered in a reign of bootleggers, racketeers, hijackers and gangsters that led to a breakdown of law unparalleled in our history.

This dinner was the start of a new blatancy in the relationship between the gangs and the politicians, which, prior to 1924, says Pasley, `` had been maintained with more or less stealth '', but which henceforth was marked by these ostentatious gatherings, denounced by a clergyman as `` Belshazzar feasts '', at which `` politicians fraternized cheek by jowl with gangsters, openly, in the big downtown hotels ''.

Other witnesses, after appearances before the jury, which reportedly is probing into possible income tax violations, disclosed that government prosecutors were attempting to connect Stein and his company with a number of gangsters, including Glimco and Alex.

The 1920s saw gangsters, including Al Capone, battle law enforcement and each other on the streets of Chicago during the Prohibition era.

Their style of crime fiction came to be known as " hardboiled ", which encompasses stories with similar attitudes concentrating not on detectives but gangsters, crooks, and other committers or victims of crimes.

He spun humorous tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by " square " names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as " Nathan Detroit ," " Benny Southstreet ," " Big Jule ," " Harry the Horse ," " Good Time Charley ," " Dave the Dude ," or " The Seldom Seen Kid.

Runyon's short stories are told in the first person by a protagonist who is never named, and whose role is unclear ; he knows many gangsters and does not appear to have a job, but he does not admit to any criminal involvement, and seems to be largely a bystander.

LaGuardia loathed the gangsters who brought a negative stereotype and shame to the Italian community.

LaGuardia then went after the gangsters with a vengeance, stating in a radio address to the people of New York in his high-pitched, squeaky voice, " Let's drive the bums out of town.

While we would recognize many of the genres as Westerns, gangsters, musicals, etc., often the cycles were significantly more specific.

Hoover expanded civil service coverage of Federal positions, canceled private oil leases on government lands, and by instructing the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service to pursue gangsters for tax evasion, he enabled the prosecution of mobster Al Capone.

* 1933 – Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.

All the gangsters escaped.

Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances, Cinema had changed in the ten years since Walsh last directed Cagney ( in The Strawberry Blonde ), and the actor's portrayal of gangsters had also changed.

In modern times, the term " jianghu " can take on two generic meanings, one for different professional circles and a second used to refer to the triads and the secret societies of gangsters.

", in which " Hans and Feetz " grow up to become gangsters.

Lebman then sold these " baby machine guns " to Prohibition Era gangsters, the most notable being John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.

A common PAGAD modus operandi was to set fire to drug dealers houses and kill gangsters.

With the collapse of the market for musicals, Warner Bros., under production head Darryl F. Zanuck, turned to more socially realistic storylines, " torn from the headlines " pictures many in the media said glorified gangsters ; Warner Bros. soon became known as a " gangster studio ".

* September 20 – Twelve blue cars full of gangsters open fire at the Hawthorne Inn, Al Capone's Chicago headquarters.

* February 14 – St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangsters, rivals of Al Capone, are murdered in Chicago.

It lynches two gangsters, arrests most Democratic Party officials and disbands itself on August 18.