He was enormously happy with her gift and smiled, then went to his room to read.

In 929 the city went to Edward the Elder's daughter Edith, through her marriage to Henry's son Otto I, as a Morgengabe — a Germanic customary gift received by the new bride from the groom and his family after the wedding night.

Critics argue that about half the aid was a gift from the American taxpayer to American businesses, as $ 400 million consisted of incentives for U. S. business to export products to Panama, $ 150 million was to pay off bank loans and $ 65 million went to private sector loans and guarantees to U. S. investors.

However, during a live broadcast on October 8, 1930, Beiderbecke's seemingly limitless gift for improvisation finally failed him: " He stood up to take his solo, but his mind went blank and nothing happened ," recalled a fellow musician, Frankie Cush.

The treasure went first to the Habsburgs in Vienna, then as a gift to Louis XIV, who was not impressed with the treasure and stored it in the royal library, which became the Bibliothèque Nationale de France during the Revolution.

Meanwhile throughout the city of Amasea, although entry into the temples and holy places had been forbidden by the decree of Theodosius I ( 391 ), the festival of gift-giving when " all is noise and tumult " in " a rejoicing over the new year " with a kiss and the gift of a coin, went on all around, to the intense disgust and scorn of the bishop:

According to legend, the relic was given to the cathedral by Charlemagne who received it as a gift from Emperor Constantine VI during a crusade to Jerusalem, however this legend was pure fiction ( Charlemagne never went to the Holy Land ) – probably invented in the 11th century to authenticate some relics at the Abbey of St Denis.

In 1983, at the Los Angeles stop on Tosh's Mama Africa tour, a local musician named Bruno Coon went to the hotel at which Tosh was staying, claiming to have a gift for him.

The Pentecostals went one step further, seeking what they called a " baptism in the spirit " or " baptism of the Holy Ghost " that enabled those with this special gift to heal the sick, perform miracles, prophesy, and speak in tongues.

" Some townspeople were upset that Amory Maynard had not left the town a gift before he died in 1890, and more were upset that Lorenzo Maynard, Amory's son, had withdrawn his own money from the Mill before it went bankrupt in 1898.

A Kehlsteinhaus, nicknamed Eagle's Nest by a French diplomat, was built in 1938-39 ( with remarkably lavish government funds spent as a national gift for his 50th birthday ) on the mountaintop above the Berghof, but Hitler rarely went there.

One school even went as far as to gift him a thunderbird for their blunder.

Starting as a shipping clerk, he went on to become a travelling salesman, covering thousands of miles on the Santa Fe Railroad across America to sell Coty perfumes and gift sets.

A wealthy London merchant subsidized him with the gift of ten pounds, with which he went across the Channel to Hamburg ; and there and elsewhere on the Continent, where he could be hid and where printing facilities were more accessible than in England, he brought his translation to completion.

The apparent context is the battle of Arfderydd, where Myrddin fought as one of Gwenddolau's warriors, went mad from terror and in this way, acquired the gift of prophecy ( see also Vita Merlini below ).

Later still, she went to Morocco, where she travelled among the Berbers and had to use a ladder to mount her black stallion, a gift from the Sultan.

The airport went under major renovations in 1994 with the construction of a new airport terminal building, including two jetways, a large food court, a gift shop and an arcade.

A few months before the wedding the couple went to the adjacent Sandringham to view their wedding gift.

Herbert de Losinga obtained his appointment in 1091 by means of a simoniacal gift to King William Rufus to secure his election, but being subsequently struck with remorse went to Rome, in 1094, to obtain absolution from the pope.

The Catholic Encyclopedia says of him " with little gift for politics, nor paying much heed to them, he was nevertheless severely blamed when things went wrong.

The losing contestants were each given smaller prizes ; no one went away from the show without a meaningful gift.

The gift went to the OHSU Cancer Institute, renaming it the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.

However, the last gift shops and child amusements went out of business in 1995.

After the boys took their new sleds from Uncle Donald ( not reading the included gift card ) and went sledding, had a Christmas dinner, and sang carols, it was time for them to go to bed.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church, established in 1863, believes Ellen G. White, one of the church's founders, was given the spiritual gift of prophecy, and are generally skeptical toward other claims.

The grace of sanctification draws one toward the gift of Christian perfection, which Wesley described as a heart " habitually filled with the love of God and neighbor " and as " having the mind of Christ and walking as he walked.

Bryant moved toward the gift shop area, giving many people time to hide under tables and behind shop displays.

Land was originally given the Board of Education and a gift of $ 150, 000 toward the construction of a Junior High School.

* The Mars trilogy, a series of books written by Kim Stanley Robinson in the 1990s, suggests that new human societies that develop away from Earth could migrate toward a gift economy.

Harvard Board of Overseers member Mitchell L. Adams said, “ This is an extraordinary moment in Harvard ’ s history and in the history of this rapidly emerging field ... And because of Harvard ’ s leadership in academia and the world, this gift will foster continued progress toward a more inclusive society .”

Neither had he any gift for settling his new parishioners ' disputes: by deliberately seeking out " iniquitous behavior " in his congregation and making church members in good standing suffer public penance for small infractions, he made a significant contribution toward the tension within the village, and the bickering in the village continued to grow unabated.

George Washington gave the school its first significant endowment in 1796, $ 20, 000, at the time the largest gift ever given to an educational institution in the United States, and Washington's gift continues to provide nearly $ 1. 87 a year toward every student's tuition.

According to Izacke, it was Queen Elizabeth I who suggested that the city adopt this motto ( perhaps in imitation of her own motto, Semper eadem, " Ever the same "); her suggestion is said to have come in a letter to " the Citizens of Exeter ," in recognition of their gift of money toward the fleet that had defeated the Spanish Armada.

In 2007 the University of Portland was given a $ 12 million dollar gift ( the largest in UP's history ) toward the School of Engineering by Donald and Darlene Shiley of San Diego.

Carnegie disapproved of charitable giving that merely maintained the poor in their impoverished state, and urged a movement toward the creation of a new mode of giving which would create opportunities for the beneficiaries of the gift to better themselves.

United Methodists believe that sanctifying grace draws one toward the gift of Christian perfection, which Wesley described as a heart " habitually filled with the love of God and neighbor " and as " having the mind of Christ and walking as he walked.

The rite of confirmation orients toward mission, and many liturgical texts remind the initiate that the gift of the Holy Spirit should be used for service to the church and the world.

The University mace, an unsolicited gift dedicated to Nathan Bedford Forrest which prominently featured a Confederate battle flag, has been a point of interest in the debate over the university's identity, because of its association with Forrest and its implications for attitudes toward African-Americans.

Elphaba pretends not to care that she received no gift from their father, but toward the end of the novel, the shoes become an obsession for her, as she sees them as a symbol of Frex's favoritism.

Despite his gift of foreign languages and civil knowledge, Pettigrew leaned toward the military as a way to serve his country and his state.

The ideas used are almost always directed toward bringing wealth, health, good luck, longevity, even immortality to the owner of an artefact, frequently as a wish expressed in a kind of coded form by the giver of a gift.

The first Heinz pickle pins were given away at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, where a simple and inexpensive gift was thought to be necessary to draw visitors toward Heinz's relatively out-of-the-way booth in the upper gallery of the Agricultural Building.

Perkins, working with Union Pacific Railroad president Edward Henry Harriman, and, after his death, with his widow, Mary Averell Harriman, arranged a gift to the state of ten thousand acres ( 40 km² ) and one million dollars from the Harrimans toward the creation of a state park and another $ 1. 5 million from a dozen wealthy contributors including John D. Rockefeller and Morgan.