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.

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

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.

At the close of the second last day's play, Australia were 113 – 2, needing only 64 more runs.

Before 1931, i. e. through most of Ruth's most productive years, the umpire called the play based on the ball's final resting place " when last seen ".

Henry Purcell's last major work, composed in 1695, was music for play entitled Bonduca, or the British Heroine ( Z.

:::" One inning more to play " in standard baseball jargon means that the home team has one set of at-bats remaining: the poem is set just before the start of Mudville's final turn ( of a regulation game ), in the bottom of the ninth inning ( Mudville was the home team and the home team bats last in an inning ).

Carolina had an 11-point lead in the last three minutes of play, but the Rams tied the game and sent it to overtime.

By quickly setting up for the next play ( often within 5 – 10 seconds after the last play despite being afforded 45 seconds ) this hindered the other team's defense from substituting situational players, regrouping for tactics, and, some suggest, increased the defense's rate of fatigue ( This is attributed to the belief that the offense dictates when a play starts so they tend to be more mentally relaxed and prepared for the start of a play where the defense must remain on a higher level of alert before the play starts ).

Research indicates that this legend is mostly untrue, and that the new name was a play on the name of the Boston Braves, then known as the " Miracle Braves " after going from last place on July 4 to a sweep in the 1914 World Series.

After the victory Boston's owner sold its star pitcher, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees to help funding of a Broadway play, and thus starting a tale of futility which would last 86 years, known as Curse of the Bambino.

He is the last Diamont ( presumably a play on the word diamond, which is composed of carbon ).

Flutie had estimated " an 80 percent chance " of making the drop kick, which was called to give Flutie, 43 at the time, the opportunity to make a historic kick in his final NFL game, the drop kick being his last play in the NFL.

This may have been the last time the play was deliberately attempted in the CFL.

Elizabeth was happy to play the part, but it is possible that in the last decade of her life she began to believe her own performance.

" However the Times also reflected widespread skepticism as to whether the forward pass could be effectively integrated into the game: " There has been no team that has proved that the forward pass is anything but a doubtful, dangerous play to be used only in the last extremity.

" Nelson continues, " the last play demonstrated the dramatic effect that the forward pass was having on football.

A free hit involves a player from one team to start play from the place where the ball was last deemed unplayable.

The Colts 1977 playoff loss in double overtime against the Oakland Raiders was famous for the fact that it was the last playoff game for the Colts in Baltimore and is also known for the Ghost to the Post play.

In early 2001, Sasha suffered an ear injury and was unable to play for their last 4 dates until Twilo was closed by the New York City authorities.

* 1959 – Elijah Jerry " Pumpsie " Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate.