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name and was
That girl last night, what was her name??
For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.
No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.
My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.
Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.
Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.
Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.
The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.
But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.
Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.
It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.
An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.
The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.
Her name was Esther Peter.
Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.
Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.
I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

name and parody
Anaximenes was hostile to Theopompus, whom he sought to discredit with a libelous parody, Trikaranos, published in Theopompus ' style and under his name, attacking Athens, Sparta, and Thebes.
The value of the ColecoVision as a 1980s pop culture icon was discussed on VH1's I Love The 80's Strikes Back .< ref name =" Ilove80s "> Several television series have aired episodes that reference or parody the console: South Park, Family Guy and Everybody Hates Chris.
Fickman also worked on the musical Reefer Madness, a parody of the anti-marijuana propaganda film of the same name which was turned into a feature film on Showtime.
The title of the fourth Roxy album, Country Life, was intended as a parody of the well-known British rural magazine of the same name, and the visually punning front cover photo featured two models ( two German fans, Constanze Karoli — sister of Can's Michael Karoli — and Eveline Grunwald ) clad only in semi-transparent lingerie standing in a forest.
He's busted down to Janitor Second Class, and assigned to the SCS DeepShip 86 ( a parody of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ), commanded by Commander Kielbasa, a Cowardly Lion look-alike whose name is taken from the polish sausage as well as being a play on the names of both the feline Kilrathi from the video game series Wing Commander and of the character Mufasa from the animated motion picture The Lion King.
The album cover of their record Nagelbett ( nail bed ) is a parody of the Kraftwerk album cover for The Man-Machine and the group name Autobahn shares the name of a Kraftwerk song and album.
The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie.
This may occur when someone is ghostwriting a book or play, or in parody, or when using a " front " name, such as by screenwriters blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s.
In the parody film Thumb Wars, the role of Leia was filled by a character named Princess Bunhead, who, as the name implies, had two cinnamon rolls for hair.
" Stealing like a Hobbit " is the name of a parody song, by Luke Sienkowski, that was most requested in 2003 on the Dr. Demento Show.
In February 1995, a parody website calling itself " People Eating Tasty Animals " registered the domain name " peta. org ".
An urban legend claims this was the origin of the band's name, but according to band member Jorma Kaukonen, the name was invented by his friend Steve Talbot as a parody of blues names such as Blind Lemon Jefferson.
His name is derived from Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr series and the " Lone Star State " of Texas, as well as being a parody on the last names of the two heroes of Star Wars, Solo ( Lone ) and Skywalker ( Star ).
Their family name is a reference to their apparent lack of intelligence, and their cross-eyed appearance may be a parody of generic soldiers being unable to shoot a hero in various franchises.
That name, originally intended to be the title of a song, was chosen to parody the practice of having a one minute silence as a mark of respect when someone considered " important or well respected " dies.
The toy company that Peter Griffin worked for early in the series was called the Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Co, the name a loose parody based on the name of the Hasbro toy company based in Pawtucket.
Its full name is a parody of This Hour Has Seven Days, a CBC newsmagazine from the 1960s ; the " 22 Minutes " refers to the fact that a half-hour television program in Canada and the U. S. is typically 22 minutes long with eight minutes of commercials.
They have released some of their records on Claypool's Prawn Song Records label, the name of which is a parody of Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label.
A parody of the show as part of Rutland Weekend Television in 1975, featuring Eric Idle as Harris, is the first known mention of fictional band, Toad The Wet Sprocket-a later reference on a Monty Python album gave rise to the band of the same name.
The company's name is a parody of Microsoft.
His name is a parody of former President of the United States George H. W. Bush.

name and London
There is Mijbil, an otter who travelled with Maxwell -- and gave Maxwell's name to a new species -- from the Tigris marshes to his London flat.
His name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes ' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans ' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.
His mother was from a respectable middle-class English family from Hertford, north of London .< ref name =" WKU_bio ">
Its name comes from a nightclub in London that is also called Bedrock.
" Station X ", " London Signals Intelligence Centre " and " Government Communications Headquarters " were all cover names that were used during the war, and the latter ( GCHQ ) was adopted for the successor peacetime organisation that still bears this name.
* Baldric is the name of one of the ravens presently residing at The Tower of London
Craven Cottage is the name of a football stadium located in Fulham, London, and has been the home ground of the association football team Fulham F. C.
Among the theories on the origin of the Addicks name are that it was the south-east London pronunciation of either " addict " or " athletic ".
Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London ; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang ( or CRS ).
As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club, having also considered names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC.
Daniel Foe ( his original name ) was probably born in the parish of St. Giles Cripplegate, London.
However, on the Vera Totius Expeditionis Nauticae Description of Jodocus Hondius ( London 1589 ), " Don Garcia " mysteriously changes its name to " I. de Dio Gratia ", while the " I. de Chagues " appears close by.
The first map to delineate the island under its present name, Diego Garcia, is the World Map of Edward Wright ( London 1599 ), possibly as a result of misreading Dio ( or simply " D .") as Diego, and Gratia as Garcia.
Docklands is the semi-official name for an area in east and southeast London, England.
The name London Docklands was used for the first time in a government report on redevelopment plans in 1971 but has since become virtually universally adopted.
Allen wrote of the voyage that he " was put under the power of an English Merchant from London, whose name was Brook Watson: a man of malicious and cruel disposition ".
( The name Kettner in the title refers to Auguste Kettner, former chef to Napoleon III, who emigrated to England and in 1867 opened a restaurant in Soho – Kettner's – one of the oldest restaurants in London.
Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
This threat was realised when on 6 January 1661, 50 Fifth Monarchists, headed by a wine-cooper named Thomas Venner, made an effort to attain possession of London in the name of " King Jesus.
* 1826 – University College London is founded under the name University of London.
They won the West London Amateur Cup in 1887 and, having shortened the name from Fulham Excelsior to its present form in 1888, they then won the West London League in 1893 at the first attempt.
The name of the village is Anglicized from the Dutch name Greenwijck, meaning " Pine District ", into Greenwich, a borough of London.

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