The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

Of only one could he be sure -- young John Hudson, his second son.

A second scene flashed before his mind, the interior of the garage at the new house and the young Bartlett girl turning startled to meet him, the dim dark and the sudden confusion and fear and then the brightness as Mae had clicked on the light.

The young twigs are green at first, becoming purplish where exposed to sunlight, then grey in their second year.

She also was a stepmother to Claudia Antonia, Claudius ' daughter and only child from his second marriage to Aelia Paetina, and to the young Claudia Octavia and Britannicus, Claudius ' children with Valeria Messalina.

Madame Armfeldt tells the child that the summer night " smiles " three times: first on the young, second on fools, and third on the old.

Philip Roth titled the second chapter of his novel " The Ghost Writer " Nathan Dedalus, after the novel's young protagonist Nathan Zuckerman.

Ethan met his second wife, a young widow by the name of Frances Montresor Brush Buchanan, early in 1784, and married her after a brief courtship on February 16, 1784.

His daughter Sofia also appeared in all three ( the first two movies uncredited ): as the infant being baptized at the end of the first movie, as a young child on board ship in the second, and in a supporting role as Michael Corleone's daughter Mary in the third.

His second marriage, to a successful young piano student, for the first time brought some desperately needed stability into the private life of the artist, who was plagued by many serious health problems.

The second, named Germanicus, died young.

In 1836 Marx became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, a beautiful baroness of the Prussian ruling class —" the most desirable young woman in Trier " — who broke off her engagement with a young aristocratic second lieutenant to be with him.

His career revival began when the young Italian director Sergio Leone boldly cast Van Cleef, whose career was still in the doldrums, as one of the two protagonists, alongside Clint Eastwood, in Leone's second western, For a Few Dollars More.

The Japanese use different kanji for two closely allied meanings of " seinen "— for " youth, young man " and for " adult, majority "— the second referring to sexually overt manga aimed at grown men and also called seijin (" adult " ) manga.

Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for " elders ," and that the following month ( June ) is named for the iuniores, or " young people " ( Fasti VI. 88 ).

The first is a ritual designed for the individual, which involves sacrificing a " Cake of Light " ( a type of bread that serves as the host ) to Ra ( i. e. the Sun ) and infusing a second Cake with the adept's own blood ( either real or symbolic, in a gesture reflecting the myth of the Pelican cutting its own breast to feed its young ) and then consuming it with the words, " There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: Do what thou wilt!

He was the second son of Sheriar Mundegar Irani, a Persian Zoroastrian who had spent years wandering in search of spiritual experience before settling in Poona ( now Pune ), and Sheriar's young wife, Shireen.

'" Bracton's work was the second legal treatise studied by the young apprentice lawyer Thomas Jefferson.

The adult birds that survived the slaughter attempted second nestings at new sites, but were killed by professional hunters before they had a chance to raise any young.

Though generally quite young and less experienced than the tribuni angusticlavii, he served as second in command of the legion, behind the legate.

The second incident occurred in 1932, when a carnival entertainer, one Mr. Electrico, touched the young man on the nose with an electrified sword, made his hair stand on end, and shouted, " Live forever!

The young leg spinner claimed Hassett in the second innings when a ball landed in a crack and skidded through onto his foot.

Richard ’ s chief biographer, Jean de Toulouse, writes that when Richard died in 1173 he was still young and so it therefore must be assumed that he entered the Order well into its second period of development, near the end of Hugh ’ s life.

On May 25, 1969, several young officers, led by Colonel Jaafar an Nimeiri, seized power, thus bringing the army into political control for the second time.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

man has a second chance.

Brakes howled and a horn blared furiously, but the man would have been hit if Phil hadn't called out to him a second before.

These two examples occurred when first, Meidias punched Demosthenes in the face in the theater ( Against Meidias ), and second when ( in Against Konon ) a defendant allegedly assaulted a man and crowed over the victim.

A stolen base would be awarded to runners who successfully stole second base as a part of a double steal with a man on third, if the other runner failed to steal home, but instead was able to return safely to third base.

Roughly contemporary with the construction of the new building was the career of a man sometimes called the " second founder " of the British Museum, the Italian librarian Anthony Panizzi.

He was the second to last man to be evacuated from Suvla Bay ( the last being General F. S.

A second consulship could only be attempted after an interval of 10 years to prevent one man holding too much power.

Historically, the relationship involved a man in a higher status position, usually with a legally sanctioned wife, who maintains a second household with the lesser " wife ".

Corner-in a two-couple set, the dancer diagonally opposite, i. e., the first man and the second woman, first woman and second man.

" On second reading, the reader should realize that " breast " does not carry the general androgynous connotation of " chest " but instead the specific idea of a woman's breasts, which are so attractive that a man of any religion would kiss the Christian cross to be near.

And if we are to specify in sensory terms that the second doctor is a normal observer, we must refer to a third doctor, and so on ( also see the third man ).

His second wife, Giuseppina Strepponi, described him as " a man of little faith ".

* Frank Kennedy: Suellen O ' Hara's former fiancé and Scarlett's second husband, Frank is an unattractive older man.

The train driver, second man, and the motorists driving on the fallen bridge all survived.

The first man and woman break God's command and eat the fruit of the forbidden tree, and God expels them from the garden to prevent them from eating of a second tree, the Tree of Life, which would give them god-like immortality as well as god-like wisdom ; a cherub and a flaming sword at the gate bars their return.

In the top of the fifteenth inning, Roger Clemens made only his second career relief appearance, pitching three shutout innings, notably striking out Julio Franco, at the time the oldest man in MLB at 47 years old.

In the Test series that followed he scored his maiden test century, 135 off 411 balls, after coming in at 0-1 in the second over he was last man out, after eight and three-quarter hours, in a total of 275.

These two examples occurred when first, Midias punched Demosthenes in the face in the theatre ( Against Midias ), and second when ( in Against Conon ) a defendant allegedly assaulted a man and crowed over the victim.

"... Emerson opposes on principle the reliance on social structures ( civil, religious ) precisely because through them the individual approaches the divine second hand, mediated by the once original experience of a genius from another age: " An institution ," as he explains, " is the lengthened shadow of one man.

* 1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.