Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

Another patient, a paranoid woman, for many months infuriated not only me but the ward-personnel and her fellow patients by arrogantly behaving as though she owned the whole building, as though she were the only person in it whose needs were to be met.

Even Julian's intellectual friends and fellow pagans were of a divided mind about this habit of talking to his subjects on an equal footing: Ammianus Marcellinus saw in that only the foolish vanity of someone " excessively anxious for empty distinction ", whose " desire for popularity often led him to converse with unworthy persons ".

" She was also a believer and a practitioner of magic, performing curses against those whom she felt deserved it: as Ronald Hutton noted, " Once she carried out a ritual to blast a fellow academic whose promotion she believed to have been undeserved, by mixing up ingredients in a frying pan in the presence of two colleagues.

The legionary would be stoned or beaten to death by cudgels, in front of the assembled troops, by his fellow soldiers, whose lives had been put in danger.

In the road transportation arena these theories were extended by Maurice Allais, a fellow Nobel prize winner " for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources ", Gabriel Roth who was instrumental in the first designs and upon whose World Bank recommendation the first system was put in place in Singapore.

The manuals of the Roman Catholic Inquisition remained highly sceptical of the witch craze and of witch accusations, although there was sometimes an overlap between accusations of heresy and of witchcraft, particularly when, in the 13th century, the newly-formed Inquisition was commissioned to deal with the Manichaean Cathars of Southern France, whose teachings had an admixture of witchcraft and magic, and who had embarked upon campaigns of murder against their fellow citizens in France, not excluding prelates and ambassadors and whose ally, the Cathar King Pedro II of Aragon, later invaded Southern France with an army of 50, 000.

Francis Alick " Frankie " Howerd OBE ( 6 March 1917, York – 19 April 1992 ) was an English comedian and comic actor whose career, described by fellow comedian Barry Cryer as " a series of comebacks ", spanned six decades.

After a few months life becomes very idyllic on the island, with Richard making friends with a few other members of the beach community: Keaty, a fellow Englishman hooked on his Game Boy ; Gregorio, a Spanish traveller part of his fishing detail ; Unhygienix, the Italian head chef with an intense obsession for bath soap ; Jesse and Cassie, two lovers who work in the gardening and carpentry detail, respectively ; Ella, who works second-in-command with Unhygenix in the cooking detail ; and finally, Jed-the enigmatic loner of the group whose sole separate detail is shrouded in mystery.

He is a big, bluff, wholesome fellow, whose ideas are frequently a little peculiar, and he goes about matters in exclusively his own way.

Whistler was friendly with his fellow students at Gleyre's studio, including Ignace Schott, whose son Leon Dabo Whistler later would mentor.

In particular, striker Fernando Llorente, whose contract was nearing its end, failed to agree a new deal due to his wage demands ( allegedly far higher than the norm at the club, but less than some other top strikers in other leagues ), and when his position became unstable, it emerged that fellow Spain international Javi Martinez would possibly also be wishing to leave.

Perhaps his most valuable contribution was his favourable assessment of fellow expatriate John Singer Sargent, a painter whose critical status has improved markedly in recent decades.

He is one of only seven pitchers to throw both a perfect game and an additional no-hitter, the others being Randy Johnson, Sandy Koufax, Addie Joss, Cy Young, Mark Buehrle, and fellow Phillie Roy Halladay, whose additional no-hitter came in Game 1 of the 2010 National League Division Series.

His first defense also came in San Juan where he met fellow Puerto Rican Rafael Solis, whose family included former world bantamweight champion Julian Solís.

Guitarist Jimmy A and singer Sharon McCall also performed occasionally with the band, whose repertoire contained a number of songs penned by English poet and fellow Exit Records musician Steve Scott.

MacWhorter was absolved of culpability in a subsequent ecclesiastical trial, whose verdict led to a rift between Delia and her fellow congregationalists.

After the death of a fellow astronaut, he nurtures a close acquaintance with a young religious woman named Riquinni Nonderaiko, whose faith has seen her through some personal hardships.

Perhaps because he was free of the discipline and routine he had experienced while stationed at Guantanamo Bay, plus his courtship of a fellow student whom he later married, Whitman was initially a poor student whose grades were largely unimpressive.

Snow was inspired for his novel The Masters by the story of Mark Pattison, a fellow at Lincoln, whose enthusiastic hopes for Lincoln were frustrated by older, more conservative fellows of the college ; Snow's story transposes the story to a Cambridge College.

As a historian of early modern Britain, Trevor-Roper was most famous for his disputes with fellow historians such as Lawrence Stone and Christopher Hill, whose materialist ( and in some measure " inevitablist ") explanations of the English Civil War he enthusiastically attacked.

* The Luricawne of Kerry was a " fat, pursy little fellow whose jolly round face rivals in redness the cut-a-way jacket he wears, that always has seven rows of seven buttons in each row ".

However, it is now recognised that the work as it survives today was authored by John, a fellow monk at Worcester, whose signature is found in two later entries ( s. a. 1128 and 1138 ).

He and fellow Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann earned the nickname " the rhythm devils ".

During 2006, Hart teamed up with fellow Grateful Dead bandmate Bill Kreutzmann, Phish bassist Mike Gordon and former The Other Ones lead guitarist Steve Kimock, to form the Rhythm Devils, a nickname that refers to Hart and Kreutzmann's drum duets and improvisation.

His fellow officers gave him the nickname " Mr. Johnson ".

They were guided by the Portuguese navigator Simon Fernandez, the same pilot who had led the 1585 expedition and who was given by his fellow sailors the unhappy nickname of " the swine ".

The names themselves come from Edmondson's and Mayall's own nicknames for each other ; many of Mayall's characters are referred to by some variation of the name " Richard " and " Eddie " is taken from " Eddie Monsoon ", Edmondson's nickname since University, which is a play on his then stage name, Ade Edmondson ( compare Edina Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous, who is called " Eddie " by her friend Patsy, and is played by Edmondson's Comic Strip fellow and wife Jennifer Saunders ).

He was also the Milan and Italy captain for many years and was considered a leader amongst leaders by fellow footballers, leading to the nickname " Il Capitano " ( the Captain ).

Radio recordings from the 1940s exist where announcers and fellow actors mispronounce the nickname, but Chico apparently felt it was unnecessary to correct them.

Dorman-Smith gained his nickname " Chink " on his first night in the officers ' mess when his fellow subaltern Richard Vachell noted his resemblance to the Chinkara antelope mascot that the regiment had had to leave behind when they moved back to England from India.

Midfielder Olav Nilsen was also a crucial player on the pitch in the first half of the decade, earning the nickname " Olav Viking ", while fellow midfielder Svein Kvia was awarded the Norwegian Player of the Year title on several occasions.

Jones suffered from a stiff leg and walked with a limp ; fellow musicians gave him the nickname " Richard My Knee Jones " as a pun on his middle name.

When the Race carries out air reconnaissance in the months before their attack, Goldfarb and his fellow radar specialists are confused by readings indicating aircraft much faster and high-flying than anything known to humans: the RAF men nickname those echoes " pixies ".

" Fortunately for Tate and his wife, Lowell soon settled into the so-called " writer's house " ( a dorm that received its nickname after it had accrued a number of ambitious young writers ) with fellow students Peter Taylor, Robie Macauley and Randall Jarrell .< ref > McAlexander, Hugh, " Peter Taylor: The Undergraduate Years at Kenyon ," The Kenyon Review, New Series, Vol.

In 1962, Cherry decided to turn professional and " Pro " became his nickname among fellow entertainers.

Each NPL member generally chooses a " nom " upon joining, an often cryptic nom de plume which serves as a nickname when communicating with fellow members ( see below for an example ).

The name Zapiro was derived from the nickname of a fellow pupil at Rondebosch Boys ' High School, Martin Szapiro, whose friends called him Zap.

It even became his nickname: his fellow student C. R. W.

Among his fellow Cossack bandits, he acquired the nickname Ermac.

Günther von Kluge ’ s nickname among the troops and his fellow officers was der kluge Hans (“ Clever Hans ”).

As part of Greek politician Aiskhines ( Aeschines )' proof that a member of the prosecution against him, Timarkhos ( Timarchus ), had prostituted himself to ( or been " kept " by ) another male while young, he attributed fellow prosecutor Demosthenes ' nickname Batalos (" arse ") to his " unmanliness and kinaidiā and frequently commented on his " unmanly and womanish temper ", even criticising his clothing: " If anyone took those dainty little coats and soft shirts off you ... and took them round for the jurors to handle, I think they'd be quite unable to say, if they hadn't been told in advance, whether they had hold of a man's clothing or a woman's.

Radio color commentator Myron Cope popularized the nickname The Bus after hearing a brother of a fellow Notre Dame alumni call Jerome " Bussy " in Green Bay.

It was due to Heighway's academic achievements that he got his nickname ' Big Bamber ', team-mate and fellow academic Brian Hall was dubbed ' Little Bamber ' both after the television programme University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne.

During this time, Irvan came under more controversy due to his aggressive driving style, earning him the nickname " Swervin ' Irvan " before he apologized to his fellow drivers in a televised speech during the drivers ' meeting before a race that year.

He acquired the nickname " Cone " from fellow band member Deryck Whibley in high school, because he frequently ate ice cream cones at lunch.

He presented a radio show called " Jingus ' Smash Hits " ( Jingus is his nickname ) and also featured in a programme created by fellow Warwick student and friend Stephen Merchant.