Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

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.

In his native Cologne, where his mother taught him to play the piano, he was able to read notes before he learned the alphabet.

The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.

Tom was not willing to revise the play according to the plan the man suggested.

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 kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

That was one of the high spots of the play.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

The play for Saturday night was to be a benefit performance of The Octoroon.

Life was a short play of tenebrous shadows.

It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

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.

Babe Ruth, of course, was everyone's hero, and everyone knew him, even though relatively few ever saw him play ball.

It was a bad play, real grade-A turkey, which only a prevalence of angels with grandiose dreams of capital gain and tax money to burn could have put into rehearsal.

I knew the only way I could beat you was to play possum, but it was a good try, kid, and I appreciate it.

When Robinson tried to stretch his blow into a triple, he was cut down in a close play at third, Tuttle to Andy Carey.

The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.

Despite the 45-degree weather the game was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some good infield play.

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.

This was one of the earliest films to attempt a realistic portrayal of mental illness, an ' historically important Hollywood exposé of the grim conditions in state mental hospitals ' and de Havilland was lauded for her willingness to play a role that was completely devoid of glamor and that confronted such controversial subject matter.

When the film was released, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, lauded the film and the casting, writing, " Sidney Kingsley's play, Detective Story, has been made into a brisk, absorbing film by Producer-Director William Wyler, with the help of a fine, responsive cast.

Netrunner was lauded by critics, such as InQuest magazine, for its balanced game play and impressive artwork.

Pino Palladino ( born 17 October 1957 ) is a Welsh bass guitarist who gained fame playing primarily rock and roll, blues rock, and rhythm and blues music, although he has been lauded for his ability to play most genres of popular music, including jazz, neo soul, and funk.

From November 2009 to February 2010 he appeared opposite Christine Lahti, Annie Potts, and Ken Stott in the critically lauded Broadway play, God of Carnage, replacing Jeff Daniels.

Arena was lauded afterwards for instilling in his players the confidence to play aggressively against an international powerhouse.

He also lauded the ability to play simultaneously with two to four human players, saying that " this transforms the game from a fun diversion into an addictive obsession ".

When he signed with the Heat in 2010, Howard was lauded for his ability to play power forward and the center position and for his professionalism.

Critics also lauded Wilde's balance of a multitude of theatrical elements within the play.

), a play written by Mark Dunn, for which he was lauded for " continu to establish himself as a capable actor ".

" This claim that Shakespeare's work breaks through all creative boundaries to reveal a chaotic, teeming, contradictory world became characteristic of Romantic criticism, later being expressed by Victor Hugo in the preface to his play Cromwell, in which he lauded Shakespeare as an artist of the grotesque, a genre in which the tragic, absurd, trivial and serious were inseparably intertwined.

Other noteworthy actors to play the role of Hickey include Lee Marvin, in a 1973 film adaptation directed by John Frankenheimer ; James Earl Jones, in a 1973 revival at the Circle in the Square Theatre that was edited for length and criticized for the weakness of its supporting cast ; and Kevin Spacey, who was lauded for his 1998 – 1999 stage rendition of the part in London's West End and then on Broadway.

He appeared in the West End in The Odd Couple ( as Felix ); in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the West End ; and as Albert Einstein in a critically lauded performance in 2005 in a new play, Albert's Boy at the Finborough Theatre.

Shocked by the news, Siebert's peers lauded his character and play, indicating that his death was a considerable loss to the game of hockey.

ESPN's Jay Bilas has lauded the RAC, saying, " The Scarlet Knights play great there, and the crowd is right on top of you and intimidating.

Although only selected to play for England on one occasion, he was lauded for his skills in first-class cricket and was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1991.

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

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.

-- since, as Courtenay says, `` Nobody should play with lives the way we do unless he's motivated by the highest ideals ''.

He got hit from the blind side by the split end coming back on the second play of the game.

This year, I am told, the CBS network will continue to abide by the rule but NBC will play to a conclusion here.

Music for dancing will be furnished by Allen Uhles and his orchestra, who will play each Saturday during June.

Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.

It is into this household, one eroded by irritations that have tortured the souls out of its people, that George Dillon enters at the beginning of the play.

Given a small ball or marbles, he would invent games and play by himself for hours.

In Euripides ' play Ion, Apollo fathered Ion by Creusa, wife of Xuthus.

As the 6502 by itself was too slow to control both the game play and the vector hardware at the same time, the latter task was delegated to the DVG.

Northern ( and British ) readers recoiled in anger at the horrors of slavery through the novel and play Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

In the 1986 TV play, Murder by the Book, Christie herself ( Dame Peggy Ashcroft ) murdered one of her fictional-turned-real characters, Poirot.

He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

In the 1940s, Joan appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, " I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple ".

Spassky won the first game as Black in good style, but tenacious, aggressive play from Karpov secured him overall victory by + 4 − 1 = 6.

The Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, released in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan.

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