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`` It's the second time War Ax hands made a play for that money.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.
While Johnny made himself comfortable on the couch, I'd play the tunes for him.
How literature does this, or for whom, is certainly not clear, but the content, form, and language of the `` message '', as well as the source, would all play differentiated parts in giving and molding a sense of purpose.
That fall he submitted to Professor Baker the first acts and outlines of the following acts of several plays, six of them, according to some of his associates, and he also worked on a play that he first called Niggertown, the material for which he had collected during the summer at home.
In describing it to Professor Baker after it had been chosen for production, he defended his great array of characters by declaring that he had included that many not because `` I didn't know how to save paint '', but because the play required them.
This huge hulk played the guitar and he would take it along on our walks and play for us as we sat alone in the woods or by the stream.
I refer to the notion that the structure of society is a microcosm of the cosmic design and that history conforms to patterns of justice and chastisement as if it were a morality play set in motion by the gods for our instruction.
It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.
He is forced to play for little money, and must often take another job to live.
He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.
The purpose of the organization is to further the interest of women students in recreational activities as a means of promoting physical efficiency, sportsmanship, and `` play for play's sake ''.
After another two weeks, the first young emerge, four to eight small daughters that begin to play the role of worker bees, collecting pollen and nectar in the field and caring for the new young generation while the queen retires to a life of egg laying.
A process of elimination which leaves the artist with nothing but the play of his materials themselves cannot sustain interest in either artist or public for very long.
She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.
Carroll was sharp and military, but he was up against tough competition for that RA berth, and he wanted to play it cool.
Masu's home economics training comes into play as she designs cupboards along modern functional lines for the storage of cleaning materials.
But he didn't play golf, didn't seem to belong to any local clubs -- his work took him away a lot, of course -- which probably accounted for his tendency to keep to himself.
Bill Kunkel, Bob Hartman and Ed Keegan did the mound chores for the club down from West Palm Beach to play the game before 767 paying customers in Miami Stadium.
The Texas Aggies got a day off Monday -- a special gift from Coach Jim Myers for its conference victory last Saturday night, but Myers announced that halfback George Hargett, shaken up in the Tech game, would not play against Trinity Saturday.
The Texans have two more road games -- at Buffalo and Houston -- before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings.
Kieffer, the only junior in the group, was commended for his ability to hit in the clutch, as well as his all-round excellent play.

play and Saturday
Although he never gets to play while the clock is running, he gets a big kick -- several every Saturday, in fact -- out of football.
SMU will play the Owls at Rice Stadium in Houston in a night game Saturday, Oct. 21.
The Bears are set to play at Harris Teachers College at 3:30 tomorrow and have a doubleheader at Quincy, Ill., Saturday.
Music for dancing will be furnished by Allen Uhles and his orchestra, who will play each Saturday during June.
Big cracks had appeared in the pitch during a very hot Saturday ’ s play and on the rest day Sunday, groundsman Jack House watered the pitch to close them up.
This image of Orbison as immovable was so associated with him it was parodied by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, as Belushi dressed as Orbison falls over while singing " Oh, Pretty Woman ", and continues to play as his bandmates set him upright again.
The Eastern Orthodox church distinguishes between " Sabbath " ( Saturday ) and " Lord's Day " ( Sunday ), and both continue to play a special role for the faithful.
George Bernard Shaw, for example, reviewed the play in the Saturday Review, arguing that comedy should touch as well as amuse, " I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter.
Waterlooville Cricket Club play their home games at Jubilee Park, they run 3 Saturday sides and have a youth team.
Although the XFL began with better-than-expected TV ratings ( the opening-week games actually delivered ratings double those of what NBC had promised advertisers and the Saturday broadcast had more viewers than the NFL Pro Bowl ) and fair publicity, the audience declined sharply after the first week of the season, going from a 9. 5 rating to a 4. 6 in just one week, and the media attacked the league for what was perceived as a poor quality of play.
Lawn bowls is play in Padthaway on Saturday during the summer time.
The Sunday-clubs were in general Catholic and working class clubs, whose players had to work on Saturday and therefore could only play on Sunday.
Drama is aired daily on Radio 4 in the form of afternoon plays, a Friday evening play, short dramas included in the daily Woman's Hour program, Saturday plays and Sunday classic serials.
Instead, he began to play for Langley Park Juniors on Saturday mornings at the age of eleven, and by the time he was 15, he was representing the club at Under-18 level.
One of Jim Blakeston's first steps to win Liza's heart is to go to a melodramatic play with her on Saturday night.
For the remainder of the season, Bradman travelled the from Bowral to Sydney every Saturday to play for St George.
Not all players must play on Friday and Saturday ; the captain can select any eight players for each of the sessions over these two days.
of the Northern Ireland Intermediate League, Mourne Harps, playing the Central Bookmakers Saturday Morning League and Sion Swifts whose two teams play in the CBSML and the North West Junior League all represent the local population.
He went on to play piano for a Broadway show called The Magic Show in 1974, then became a member of the house band on NBC's popular Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) television program from 1975 to 1980 ( except for a brief departure in 1977 ).
" The people, the farmers, used to go there every Saturday with their families, and they used to have music, and the children would play in the yard.
Turk and guest concert organists play free recitals on most Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoons in July and August.
Beeston is also home to several well established football clubs, including Beeston Amateur Football Club ( Beeston AFC ), who have two mens Saturday sides that play in the Nottinghamshire Senior League and the Midland Amateur Alliance respectively and Beeston Town FC who play their home games at Highfields and compete in Division One of the Long Eaton Sunday League.

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