Eldest of the seven, Benjamin Franklin, a New Englander transplanted to Philadelphia, wrote the most dazzling success story in our history.

Her 1945 scat recording of " Flying Home " arranged by Vic Schoen would later be described by The New York Times as " one of the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade .... Where other singers, most notably Louis Armstrong, had tried similar improvisation, no one before Miss Fitzgerald employed the technique with such dazzling inventiveness.

Ellis Waterhouse described Dobson as " the most distinguished purely British painter before Hogarth ", and in the view of Waldemar Januszczak he was " the first British born genius, the first truly dazzling English painter.

The most excellent colors of the pictures, the precious gilding of the images, the beautiful transparence of the ruddy windows on all sides, the most beautiful cloths of the altars, the wondrous merits of the sanctuary, the figures of the reliquaries externally adorned with dazzling gems, bestow such a hyperbolic beauty on that house of prayer, that, in going into it below, one understandably believes oneself, as if rapt to heaven, to enter one of the best chambers of Paradise.

A 2010, a BBC4 film, The Art of Cornwall, presented by James Fox said that the St Ives ' artists " went on to produce some of the most exhilarating art of the twentieth century ... for a few dazzling years this place was as famous as Paris, as exciting as New York and infinitely more progressive than London.

Jason Ankeny describes the Original Motion Picture Score as " epic in both sound and scale ", noting that it " ranks among Bernstein's most dazzling and entertaining efforts, evoking the widescreen wonder of its source material ", concluding that " his melodies beautifully complement the wit and creativity of the onscreen narrative.

And yet it is in the fourth and fifth acts that the coruscations of Wycherley's comic genius are the most dazzling ; also, it is there that the licentiousness is the most astonishing.

Critics praised Alla Demidova ( as Ranevskaya ) and Vladimir Vysotsky ( as Lopakhin ) powerful interplay ; in retrospect this short-lived duet is regarded to be easily one of the most dazzling in the history of the Soviet theater.

1975 brought some of Vysotsky most dazzling philosophical creations: The Domes, The Rope, and the entire " medieval " cycle, including breath-taking The Ballad of Love, Free Archers, and Children of Books.

After the Concordat of 1801 — itself the most dazzling manifestation of the pope's supreme power — French Governments made some pretence of reviving, in the Organic Articles, the " Ancient Gallican Liberties " and the obligation of teaching the articles of 1682, but ecclesiastical Gallicanism was never again resuscitated except in the form of a vague mistrust of Rome.

In Norway, the huldra has often been described as a typical dairymaid, wearing the clothes of a regular farm girl, although somewhat more dazzling or prettier than most girls.

Among the varieties of festivals celebrated in Kerala, Thrissur Pooram is the most thunderous, spectacular and dazzling.

His most important and dazzling wicket, some might say, was the slower-ball yorker with which he bowled Michael Clarke.

The Iranian crown jewels are among the largest, most dazzling and valuable jewel collection in the world.

Among the varieties of festivals celebrated in Kerala, Thrikkuratti Sivarathri Procession is one of the most thunderous, spectacular and dazzling.

Huckerby scored several goals, most notably the winner in a 3 – 2 victory over Manchester United at Highfield Road, a dazzling run past a few defenders before slotting past Kevin Pilkington.

" and " While this " Mabuse " lacks most of the surrealistic effects and the dazzling hallucinations that gave its predecessor such magic, it's rich in the images and the shocks at which Lang excelled.

Gideon Haigh called it " one of his most dazzling innings ".

These were perhaps the greatest official shows on earth, parading with great pomp, including elephants, as a dazzling demonstration of the successful British colonial formula of indirect rule: the Raj could largely depend on the loyalty of most princely state rulers because of their feudal allegiance to the paramount ruler, a position the British crown ( especially since it formally took over from the HEIC ) occupied instead of the toppled Mughal dynasty, as the first durbar consecrated symbolically expressed in the new style of Kaiser-i-Hind ( Emperor of India ).

After amassing her own media empire and marshaling all her forces against him, she stands poised to destroy Russell on the eve of his most dazzling triumph.

In Entertainment Weekly, Lisa Schwarzbaum gave the film an A-grade and wrote :" A half dozen years after its Asian release, and over two decades after the original Drunken Master made Jackie Chan a star in Hong Kong, The Legend of Drunken Master may be the most kick-ass demonstration yet, for the majority of American moviegoers, of what the fuss is all about: To many aficionados ( who know the video as Drunken Master II ), this 1994 favorite, remastered and dubbed in " classic " bad Chinese-accented English, showcases Chan in his impish glory, dazzling in his ability to make serious, complicated fighting look like devil-may-care fun.

since Myra had always put most of Greg's money on her own back, Lucy suspected that no more than a few of that long row would be needed.

They won their last 14 of 15 games, including 11 in a row, the most of any team in the 2007 season and an all-time franchise record.

: My friend planted a row of Indian corn that was colored red and blue ; the rest of the field being planted with yellow, which is the most usual color.

In most crochet, the artisan usually has only one live stitch on the hook ( with the exception being Tunisian crochet ), while a knitter keeps an entire row of stitches active simultaneously.

The most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in the summer of 1913, when the ball fell in black 26 times in a row, an extremely uncommon occurrence ( but not more nor less common than any of the other 67, 108, 863 sequences of 26 red or black, neglecting the 0 slot on the wheel ), and gamblers lost millions of francs betting against black after the black streak happened.

Geelong holds a number of league records including the longest winning streak in AFL / VFL history ( 23 games ); the most goals kicked in a single game ( on two occasions-37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 and 37. 11 ( 233 ) against Melbourne in 2011 ); the highest score recorded in a single game ( 37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 ; the highest-ever aggregate season total for points scored ( 3, 334 points in 1992 ); the record for restricting an opponent to the lowest ever score in a game ( St Kilda 0. 1 ( 1 ) in 1899 ); the most consecutive 100-point victories ( 3 games in a row, in 1989 ); the longest winning streak in interstate games ( 12 games ) and achieved the longest home ground winning streak in VFL / AFL history — 29 games straight at Simonds Stadium ( also known as Kardinia Park ).

Some optical keyboards use a special key structure that blocks the light in a certain pattern, allowing only one beam per row of keys ( most commonly a horizontal beam ).

In the most primitive vertebrates, the hagfish and lampreys, the kidney is unusually simple: it consists of a row of nephrons, each emptying directly into the archinephric duct.

The most common type ( referred to above ) has a row of scales beginning at the front of the dorsal fin and ending at the end of the dorsal fin ( along both sides of the fin ).

The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Göring ( at the left edge on the first row of benches ), considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich | Third Reich after Adolf Hitler | Hitler's death.

As is the case with Reverse Polish notation, although R1C1-style formulas are more efficient than A1-style formulae ( for instance, relative and absolute references can be mixed in the same expression, as " R1C " to mean " row 1, this column "), most spreadsheet users prefer the A1 addressing style introduced by VisiCalc.

This includes 12 years in a row from 1981 – 92 – all as a result of the scheduling formulas in place prior to 2002 ( this remains a record for most consecutive years in which two teams not from the same division met each other ).

The letter M is located at the end of the third row to the right of the letter L rather than on the fourth row to the right of the N, the letters X and C are reversed, and most punctuation marks are in different positions or are missing entirely.

Green Bay would then come from behind to defeat the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL championship game for the second year in a row, in one of the most famous games in NFL lore: The Ice Bowl.

The Romans invented the seaside villa: a vignette in a frescoed wall at the house of Lucretius Fronto in Pompeii still shows a row of seafront pleasure houses, all with porticos along the front, some rising up in porticoed tiers to an altana at the top that would catch a breeze on the most stifling evenings ( Veyne 1987 ill. p 152 )

In most species, teeth are replaced one at a time as opposed to the simultaneous replacement of an entire row, which is observed in the cookiecutter shark.

The three-seat models featured forward-facing seating, at a time when most three-seat station wagons had the third row of seats facing the rear.

In most basilicas, the central nave is taller than the aisles, forming a row of windows called a clerestory.

Valiant also established " knob row " — taking in raw talent and teaching them how to make comics Valiant-style — and launched many careers, most notably Joe Quesada's.

Taking eight wins and never qualifying off the front row, Hill enjoyed by far his most successful season.

Two examples are most commonly cited: the insistence of Indian and Northern Affairs ’ representatives that the Naskapis live in row houses that, in the event, proved not to be adequately soundproofed and that had a variety of other faults ; and the fact that the brochure prepared by Indian and Northern Affairs showed a fully landscaped site with trees and bushes, whereas no landscaping was done, and no trees or bushes were ever planted.

A long row of palatal teeth is present and most species have a functional left lung that can be up to 75 % as large as the right lung.

The Democratic Party has been dominant most of the time in county-level politics in recent decades, County Executive John Stoffa, and most of the row offices.