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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 stock
The line soon lived up to its name, as local messages of moderate length could be sent for a dime and the company was quickly able to declare very liberal dividends on its capital stock.
Hereford cattle were often called `` white faces '', or `` open-face cattle '', and the old-time cowman gave the name of `` hothouse stock '' to them newly introduced cattle.
It was professedly worth three thousand dollars in stock and good will, and the name was written in gold in foot-high letters across each of the two display windows.
In 1962, Commodore went public at New York stock exchange under the name of Commodore International Limited.
Companies were seeing their stock prices shoot up if they simply added an " e -" prefix to their name and / or a ". com " to the end, which one author called " prefix investing ".
On the other hand, what appears to be the first known example of " Robin Hood " as stock name for an outlaw dates to 1262 in Berkshire, where the surname " Robehod " was applied to a man apparently because he had been outlawed.
The SCCA traces its roots to the Automobile Racing Club of America ( not to be confused with the current stock car series of the same name ).
Modern racing " stock " cars are stock in name only, using a body template that is vaguely modeled after currently-available automobiles.
After the first couple of years ' specials ' began to appear eventually making the ' stock ' car name something of a misnomer.
However, the name ' stock car ' is usually reserved for that racing class which traces its roots back to these early days in the 1950s, BriSCA F1 Stock Cars, which were previously known as " The Seniors " or " Senior Stock Cars ".
By far, the largest part of this population is the northeast Arctic cod, as it is labelled by the ICES, or the Arcto-Norwegian cod stock, also referred to as skrei, a Norwegian name meaning something like " the wanderer ", distinguishing it from coastal cod.
Cornelius Williams was a descendant of east Tennessee pioneer stock ( hence Williams ’ professional name ) and a man prone to use his fists.
Upon completion of the modifications, they stock the rocket, which they name the Galileo, and take off for the Moon, taking approximately 11 days to arrive.
Pierrot () is a stock character of pantomime and Commedia dell ' Arte whose origins are in the late 17th-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne ; the name is a hypocorism of Pierre ( Peter ), via the suffix-ot.
His forebears had founded Chatham ; the family stock was German ; eight generations back of me there had come to America one who spelled his name Greisler, a German Palatine.
The name " bond " was reserved for fixed-value investments, which were not tradeable on the stock market.
The housing stock was of a solid nature, and Tufnell Park kept its good name until the end of the century.
The old Etruscan aristocracy was not extinguished: Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, whose name is eponymous with " patron of the arts ", was of the noble Aretine Etruscan stock.
Vitalian seems to have been of local Latinised Dacian-Getic ( Thracian ) stock, born in Scythia Minor or in Moesia ; his father bore a Latin name, Patriciolus, while two of his sons had Thracian names and one a Gothic name.
The name of the area, which means " green tank ," is a reference to the algae in a large and prominent stock water tank in the area in the late 19th century.
Charles R. Schwab, founder of the discount stock brokerage firm bearing his name, and his family also lived in Piedmont in the early 1980s, as did Dean Witter, founder of Dean Witter Reynolds brokerage, in the 1940s.
De Goeijen sold a $ 3, 000, 000 stock issue for Stilwell's railroad and he was permitted to name the place after his hometown and birthplace of Zwolle, a riverside city of currently over 120, 000 population in the Netherlands.
Today there are no functioning businesses left in the town itself ( the cafe, mislabeled as " The 7-Up Cafe " in the accompanying photo, has closed its doors ), though a fellow who goes by the name " Pete " can hook visitors up with a cold, refreshing beverage from his private stock.

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