Olgivanna -- in her country the nickname was a respectful form of address -- was not only attractive but shrewd, durable, sensible, and smart.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

Because of this he was known as Gimpy ( but, as with Capone and his nickname of Scarface, never in his presence ).

Lou Gehrig was given the nickname Buster, and he ran Ruth a close race in home runs.

But the nickname never stuck and Gehrig was no match for Ruth in `` color '' -- which is sometimes a polite word for delinquent behavior on and off the field.

" The Abbot " was a nickname of RZA from the Wu Tang Clan.

* Molly Pitcher was a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth, who is generally believed to have been Mary Ludwig Hays McCauly.

Strictly speaking, the ' Accrington Pals ' battalion is properly known as the ' 11th East Lancashire Regiment ': the nickname is a little misleading, since of the four 250-strong companies that made up the original battalion only one was actually composed of men from Accrington.

The movie's title is from the nickname for the 41st Police Precinct in the South Bronx which was nicknamed " Fort Apache ".

" Opponents sometimes referred to him as " Slick Willie ", a nickname first applied while he was governor of Arkansas and lasting throughout his presidency.

The city was referred to as " Hüdavendigar " ( meaning " God's Gift ") during the Ottoman period, while a more recent nickname is " Yeşil Bursa " ( meaning " Green Bursa ") in reference to the parks and gardens located across its urban tissue, as well as to the vast forests in rich variety that extend in the surrounding region.

So powerful was the attribution of " the Lions " nickname that three heraldic versions of the animal returned as the jersey badge in 1930.

The nickname was first used for a baseball team by the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who were members of the pioneering National Association of Base Ball Players.

When the club folded after the 1870 season, Wright was hired by Boston businessman, Ivers Whitney Adams to organize a new team in Boston, and he did, bringing three teammates and the " Red Stockings " nickname along ( Most nicknames were then only nicknames, neither club names nor registered trademarks, so the migration was informal ).

When a new Cincinnati club was formed as a charter member of the National League in 1876, the " Red Stockings " nickname was commonly reserved for them once again, and the Boston team was referred to as the " Red Caps ".

For years many sources have listed " Pilgrims " as the early Boston AL team's official nickname, but researcher Bill Nowlin has demonstrated that the name was barely used, if at all, during the team's early years.

The origin of the nickname appears to be a poem entitled “ The Pilgrims At Home ” written by Edwin Fitzwilliam that was sung at the 1907 home opener (“ Rory O ’ More ” melody ).

This nickname was commonly used during that season, perhaps because the team had a new manager and several rookie players.

The journalistic nickname was inspired by the millions of lights on theater marquees and billboard advertisements that illuminate the area.

Beginning in the 1920s, the Dartmouth College athletic teams were known by their unofficial nickname " the Indians ," a moniker that probably originated among sports journalists.

Her nickname, Murasaki, was most probably given at a court dinner in an incident she recorded in her diary: in c. 1008 the well-known court poet Fujiwara no Kintō inquired after the " Young Murasaki "— an allusion to the character named Murasaki in Genji — which would have been considered a compliment from a male court poet to a female author.

" This description was probably not simply flattery by a chronicler, since both Isabella's father and brothers were considered very handsome men by contemporaries, and her husband was to nickname her " Isabella the Fair ".

These include names, also known as eke-names, based on appearance such as " Schwartzkopf ", " Short ", and probably " Caesar ", and names based on temperament and personality such as " Daft ", " Gutman ", and " Maiden ", which according to a number of sources was an English nickname meaning " effeminate ".

" De Ruyter " most probably was a nickname given to him.

His attitude towards the myths, which he claims to have preserved in their simple form ( hence probably his nickname, Old Ragwoman, or " collector of old wives ' tales ", an allusion to his fondness for trivial details ), is preferable to the rationalistic interpretation under which it had become the fashion to disguise them.

The name Fry probably started out as a nickname of someone being free, that is not a serf and not belonging to a lord.

The origin of the Revés nickname may have been that a member of a ( probably distinguished ) family living in Villanueva with the surname Revés established blood ties with the Serveto family, thus uniting both family names for the next generations.

The Grito also emphasized loyalty to the Catholic religion, a sentiment with which both Creoles and Peninsulares ( native Spaniards ) could sympathize ; however, the strong anti-Spanish cry of “ Death to the Gachupines ” ( Gachupines was a nickname given to Peninsulares ) probably had caused horror among Mexico ’ s elite.

As usual for cognomina, " Flaccus " was likely originally a nickname, probably of Marcus Fulvius Flaccus, the founder of the family.

The name " grog " probably came from the nickname of Admiral Vernon, who was known as " Old Grog " because he wore a grogram cloak.

It appears that the " Colonel " prefix is probably a nickname rather than an official military rank.

On March 7, 1939, after brief stints as Minister of Health and Minister of Education, he replaced the ailing Miron Cristea as Premier, being considered the " man of steel " able to prevent Iron Guard's political violence and to keep Romania out of the pro-German war camp ( the nickname " The Man of Steel " probably originated, under the form l ' homme d ' acier, in essays written by the French journalists Jérôme and Jean Tharaud on Romanian topics ).

Moschopoulos means " little calf ," and is probably a nickname.

The " soap bar " nickname most probably comes from its predominantly rectangular shape and proportions resembling a bar of soap, and the fact that the first P-90s on the original Gibson Les Paul Model of 1952 were white.

The term hunker has obscure origins, but probably came from the Dutch word honk, meaning “ post ,” “ station ,” or “ home .” It was basically a synonym for “ stick in the mud ,” and became a contemptuous nickname, like “ mossback ,” for the unprogressive members of a party, which detested change.

In Greece, he is occasionally called King Otto ( βασιλιάς Όθων ), probably in allusion to King Otto of Greece from Bavaria, however he already had this nickname during his coaching career in Germany.

" This nickname was probably inspired by Ohio country music artist Donnie Bowser and the Radio Ranch Boys, and by KWKH, a country music station in Shreveport, Louisiana which also broadcast at 1130 kHz and used the " Radio Ranch " nickname.

The best game of Buchwald's career was probably the final of the 1990 FIFA World Cup when he effectively marked the skilled footballer, Diego Maradona, earning him the nickname " Diego ".

Therefore, the collection was first to be known as Sonnets from the Bosnian, until Robert suggested that she change their imaginary original language to Portuguese, probably after her admiration for Camões and his nickname for her: " my little Portuguese.

His name, according to Thompson in interviews, was inspired by Raúl Castro ( brother of Fidel Castro ) and John Wayne's nickname " The Duke ", and probably originated as a pseudonym used to check into hotels, as in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

He was the son of Orthomenes, and was surnamed the son of Xuthus: probably a nickname alluding to Xuthus, the father of the mythical Ion.

:" According to the Faereyinga Saga ... the first settler in the Faroe Islands was a man named Grímur Kamban-Hann bygdi fyrstr Færeyar, it may have been the land taking of Grímur and his followers that cauysed the anchorites to leave ... the nickname Kamban is probably Gaelic and one interpretation is that the word refers to some physical handicap, another that it may point to his prowess as a sportsman.