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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.

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Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.
`` Oh, come on Miss Langford, play with us just onct '', one of the little girls begged, smiling wistfully.
Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.
I used to play with the older one sometimes, when he'd let me.
The child in the primary grades can play harmoniously with one companion, but his desire to be first in everything gets him into trouble when the group gets larger ; ;
One more muddleheaded play like that one and they'd be leading him away.
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.
If one asks about this play, what it is that comes upon this community and works within it with such terrible power, there is no better answer to give than `` spirit ''.
In a long commentary which he has inserted in the published text of the first act of the play, he says at one point: `` However, that experience never raised a doubt in his mind as to the reality of the underworld or the existence of Lucifer's many-faced lieutenants.
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.
Susan Johnson, as the widow, spends the first half of the play running a bar and singing about the unlamented death of her late husband and the second half trying to acquire a new one.
Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.
Then, a little later, Shilkret discovered there was no one to play the brief celesta solo during the slow section, so he hastily asked Gershwin if he might play the solo ; Gershwin said he could and so he briefly participated in the actual recording.
Nevertheless, it is estimated that in up to twenty percent of amphibian species, one or both adults play some role in the care of the young.
In the 1986 TV play, Murder by the Book, Christie herself ( Dame Peggy Ashcroft ) murdered one of her fictional-turned-real characters, Poirot.
Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.
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 ".
* Titus Andronicus, main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, possibly named after one of the above-listed emperors

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* Lord Abergavenny is a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.
Raphael Holinshed also included her story in his Chronicles ( 1577 ), based on Tacitus and Dio, and inspired Shakespeare's younger contemporaries Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher to write a play, Bonduca, in 1610.
Nelson publicly encouraged this close bond with his officers and on 29 September 1798 described them as " We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ", echoing William Shakespeare's play Henry V. From this grew the notion of the Nelsonic Band of Brothers, a cadre of high-quality naval officers that served with Nelson for the remainder of his life.
Banquo is a character in William Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth.
Flockhart played the role of Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a 1999 film version of Shakespeare's play.
* 1660 – A woman ( either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall ) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
It is known internationally for its castle Kronborg, where William Shakespeare's play Hamlet is set.
* William Shakespeare's play Hamlet takes place at Kronborg Castle in Helsingør, from whence the English spelling " Elsinore " derived.
Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare's King Lear, a play the couple was performing in 1809.
In that year, Vitagraph's An Auto Heroine ; or, The Race for the Vitagraph Cup and How It Was Won, contains a couple of dialogue titles, and the same firm's Julius Caesar includes three lines of dialogue from Shakespeare's play quoted in intertitles before the actors speak them, finishing with " This was the noblest Roman of them all ".
Shakespeare's Henry IV plays and Henry V adapted and developed the material in an earlier play called the Famous Victories of Henry V, in which Sir John " Jockey " Oldcastle appears as a dissolute companion of the young Henry.
Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.
Certain aspects of Gesta Danorum formed the basis for William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet.
Otello, based on William Shakespeare's play, with a libretto written by the younger composer of Mefistofele, Arrigo Boito, premiered in Milan in 1887.
* In William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Hector's death is used to mark the conclusion of the play.
Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a story capable of " seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others.
According to a popular theory, Shakespeare's main source is believed to be an earlier play — now lost — known today as the Ur-Hamlet.
Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men, may have purchased that play and performed a version for some time, which Shakespeare reworked.
However, elements of Belleforest's version which are not in Saxo's story do appear in Shakespeare's play.
Q1 is considerably shorter than Q2 or F1 and may be a memorial reconstruction of the play as Shakespeare's company performed it, by an actor who played a minor role ( most likely Marcellus ).
Finally, in a period when most plays ran for two hours or so, the full text of Hamlet — Shakespeare's longest play, with 4, 042 lines, totalling 29, 551 words — takes over four hours to deliver.
Remarkably, it still works well enough in the theatre: audiences at the reconstruction of ' Shakespeare's Globe ' in London, many of whom have never been to the theatre before, let alone to a play by Shakespeare, seem to have little difficulty grasping the play's action.
Judging by the number of reprints, Hamlet appears to have been Shakespeare's fourth most popular play during his lifetime — only Henry IV Part 1, Richard III and Pericles eclipsed it.
What is known is that the crew of the ship Red Dragon, anchored off Sierra Leone, performed Hamlet in September 1607 ; that the play toured in Germany within five years of Shakespeare's death ; and that it was performed before James I in 1619 and Charles I in 1637.

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