It is considered a classic of children's literature and has spawned many derivative works of art, such as Disney's 1940 animated movie of the same name, and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose.

Boyer played in three classic films of love story: All This, and Heaven Too ( 1940 ), with Bette Davis ; Back Street ( 1941 ), with Margaret Sullavan ; and Hold Back the Dawn ( 1941 ), with Olivia de Havilland and Paulette Goddard.

They only had supporting roles in their first picture, One Night in the Tropics ( 1940 ), but stole the film with their classic routines, including a much-shortened version of " Who's On First?

He began with the classic Disney film Fantasia ( 1940 ), where animators, dancers, composers, and artists alike collaborated.

Unlike other major animation studios of America, the studio never continued full-time in existence during the classic period of American animation, closing down in 1940 for two months, and then in 1948, reopening its doors two years later ( both closures were caused by financial problems inside Lantz's distributors ); it was shut down again ( permanently ) in 1972, after the end of the Golden Age of American animation.

Russell continued to display her talent for comedy in the classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), directed by Howard Hawks.

In addition to his own movies, Rogers played a supporting role in the John Wayne classic Dark Command ( 1940 ).

They ranged from classic Looney Tunes shorts like The Coo-Coo Nut Grove ( 1936 ), At Your Service, Madame ( 1936 ) and Little Blabbermouse ( 1940 ), to Walt Disney's Mickey's Polo Team ( 1936 ) and Mother Goose Goes Hollywood ( 1938 ).

The classic study of the vegetation of the Berkshire Highlands was Egler's 1940 monograph, covering the flora of an area stretching roughly from Pittsfield, MA in the west to Hatfield, MA in the east, and from Goshen, CT in the south, north to the Vermont border.

Between 1921 and 1940, the company produced various classic opulent vehicles.

It is often referred to as the first " true " film noir of the classic period ( 1940 – 1959 ).

( British efforts to get Turkey as an ally against Germany are a central element of Eric Ambler's classic spy thriller Journey Into Fear, published in 1940, in which a fictional head of the MAH, Colonel Haki, plays an important role.

He also started work on his classic Xhosa novel, Ingqumbo Yezinyanya ( 1940 ), later translated by the author and his wife, Phyllis Ntantala, into English as The Wrath of the Ancestors ( 1980 ).

Ernest Tubb's 1940 honky tonk classic, " Walking the Floor over You " was the first " hit " recording to feature and highlight a solo by a standard electric guitar – though earlier hits featured electric lap steel guitars.

His classic tragedy in three acts, Tiempo Muerto, premiered in 1940.

Becoming a naturalized Argentine citizen in 1940, much of his recorded music is in the classic salon style of that decade, but he is also considered a member of the old guard, and some of his later recordings contributed to the transition to concert tango.

The classic pocket-sized mini-hardback Ladybird book ( four-and-a-half by seven inches / 11. 5 cm by 18 cm ) was first produced in 1940 for a series of animal stories.

From 1940 until 2007, almost 50 years, the classic text Elfsborg decorated chest.

1940 saw the publication of a now classic scientific paper by De Geer, the Geochronologia Suecica, in which he presented the Swedish Time Scale, a floating varve chronology for ice recession from Skåne to Indalsälven.

The 1940 film Dark Command, based on a novel of the same name, is a fictionalized account of the events in much more of a classic B-movie western style.

Between 1921 and 1940, the company produced various classic opulent vehicles.

Since Oliver was cast in several film versions of classic British literature, including Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 ), A Tale of Two Cities ( 1935 ), David Copperfield ( 1935 ), the 1936 film version of Romeo and Juliet, and Pride and Prejudice ( 1940 ), using a quite realistic upper-class English accent, many film-goers have incorrectly assumed that she is British.

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

The three worked together on a number of classic Disney shorts, including " The Band Concert ", " Music Land ", and " Elmer Elephant " and in all, Reitherman worked on various Disney feature films produced from 1940 to 1981, including Pinocchio ( Monstro the Whale ) to The Fox and the Hound ( co-producer ).

His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in 1899, 1901 – 02 and the classic 1902 series, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.

CJD is at times called a human form of mad cow disease ( bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE ) even though classic CJD is not related to BSE ; however, given that BSE is believed to be the cause of variant Creutzfeldt – Jakob ( vCJD ) disease in humans, the two are often confused.

* WLDR ( 1210 am, Kingsley-Traverse City ) – classic country

* WUPS ( 98. 5 FM, Houghton Lake ) – classic hits

* WCKC ( 107. 1 FM ) – classic rock " The Bear "

* The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks – A classic cocktail book

This includes 73, 645 regular Britannica articles, with the remainder drawn from the Britannica Student Encyclopædia, the Britannica Elementary Encyclopædia and the Britannica Book of the Year ( 1993 – 2004 ), plus a few " classic " articles from early editions of the encyclopaedia.

30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848 ) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

* Japanese Film Festival ( Singapore ) – An annual curated film program focusing on classic Japanese cinema and new currents, with regular guest directors and actors.

The classic rules of sliding friction were discovered by Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ), but remained unpublished in his notebooks.

* 1935 – The classic board game Monopoly is invented.

In the classic era of Hollywood cinema ( 1930 – 1945 ) " cycles " or genres matured.

The " classic " hillbilly stereotype – the poor, ignorant, feuding family with a huge brood of children tending the family moonshine still – reached its current characterization during the years of the Great Depression, when many mountaineers left their homes to find work in other areas of the country.

Diana and Actaeon ( Titian ) | Diana and Actaeon, Titian, 1556 – 1559, a classic history painting, showing a dramatic moment in a mythological story, with elements of figure painting, landscape painting and still-life.

In a classic game, the Colt overcame a 21 – 3 deficit at halftime and would go onto win the game 38 – 34 and earned a trip to Super Bowl XLI, the franchise's first Super Bowl appearance since 1970 and for the first time in Indianapolis.

In classic overviews of the field, Guion ( 1965 ) defines I – O psychology as " the scientific study of the relationship between man and the world of work: ... in the process of making a living " ( p. 817 ).

* Calakmul – One of two " superpowers " in the classic Maya period.

* 1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.

* Robinson Crusoe on Mars ( 1964 ) – A pastiche of the classic Daniel Defoe novel.

* Lithium – Lithium is the " classic " mood stabilizer, the first to be approved by the US FDA, and still popular in treatment.

* 1886 – German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for " Effi Briest ", a classic work of German literature.

Like that of the related apple, the pear fruit is a pome, in most wild species 1 – 4 cm diameter, but in some cultivated forms up to 18 cm long and 8 cm broad ; the shape varies in most species from oblate or globose, to the classic pyriform ' pear-shape ' of the European pear with an elongated basal portion and a bulbous end.

Many of the older classifications contain paraphyletic groups, especially the traditional 2 – 6 kingdom systems and the classic division of the vertebrates.