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unnamed and reviewer
An unnamed reviewer in the Daily Mirror of January 16, 1936 said, " I'm thanking heaven I've got a name that begins with a letter near the end of the alphabet!
The unnamed Time reviewer compared the book to Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, noting that, unlike Swift, Kaufman's work was not satirical.
An unnamed reviewer in the Toronto Daily Star of 7 November 1942 said, " The Moving Finger has for a jacket design a picture of a finger pointing out one suspect after another and that's the way it is with the reader as chapter after chapter of the mystery story unfolds.
An unnamed reviewer in the Toronto Daily Star of 21 March 1942 said, " It doesn't take long to read this one, but the two killings in it are made so mysterious that you will not want to lay the book down until the killer is caught.
The unnamed reviewer in The New York Times Book Review of January 1, 1935 said, " The stories are sufficiently varied, both as to scene and as to plot, to afford this new detective the widest possible scope for his alibities.
An unnamed reviewer in the Toronto Daily Star of April 10, 1948 said, " Hercule Poirot, whose eggshaped cranium is crammed with lively gray cells, proves himself a bit of a mug before he sorts out all the details of Arden's death and other even more baffling mysteries.
An unnamed reviewer in the Toronto Daily Star of September 30, 1950 said, " A Murder is Announced displays all the adroit and well-bred legerdemain one has come to expect from Agatha Christie ... This jubilee whodunit is as deft and ingenious a fabrication as Agatha Christie has contrived in many a year.
An unnamed reviewer in the Toronto Daily Star of 6 December 1947 said, " Hercule Poirot ... here emulates his Olympian namesake, Hercules ... As the old-timer tackled the 12 classical labors ... so Mrs. Christie turns her dapper sleuth loose on 12 modern counterparts in the detection-mystery line.

unnamed and book
The book is narrated by an unnamed first-person narrator who claims to have known and served with the main character.
In the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, a scenario describing an encounter between an unnamed troll woman and the 9th century skald Bragi Boddason is provided.
According to Ellingson, Fairchild ends his book with a denunciation of the ( always unnamed ) believers in primitivism or " The Noble Savage " -- whom he feels are threatening to unleash the dark forces of irrationality on civilization.
Fred R. Shapiro, the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, has shown that in 1952 the adage was called " Murphy's law " in a book by Anne Roe, quoting an unnamed physicist:
In chapter 42 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells a story set " right at the beginning of the gods ' settlement, when the gods at established Midgard and built Val-Hall " about an unnamed builder who has offered to build a fortification for the gods that will keep out invaders in exchange for the goddess Freyja, the sun, and the moon.
In the book, the president is specifically George H. W. Bush, while in the movie the president is unnamed ; the fake war operation is explicitly Desert Storm, and the war actually occurs, instead of being entirely falsified.
In a subsequent best-selling book, The True Character of Kim Jong-il, Shigemura cited apparently unnamed people close to Kim's family along with Japanese and South Korean intelligence sources, claiming they confirmed Kim's diabetes took a turn for the worse early in 2000 and from then until his supposed death three and a half years later he was using a wheelchair.
Though the boy in the book is unnamed, in the film he is named " James ".
* " Finger Man " ( 1934 ), ( short story ): This story originally featured an unnamed narrator, identified as " Carmady " in subsequent stories, and later renamed Marlowe for book publication.
In 1999, author Douglas A. Martin published a novel, Outline of My Lover, in which the narrator has a six-year romantic relationship with the unnamed lead singer of a successful Athens, Georgia-based, rock band ; the book was widely speculated, and later confirmed by its author, to have been a roman à clef based on a real relationship between Martin and Stipe.
In the book, the dog is unnamed, but after a competition among schoolchildren, the dog is now known as Harmony.
During this trip, he revisited some of the sites mentioned in the book as well as seeing old friends, including some that had been mentioned in the book, and one unnamed person, the " Agent " ( of the trading company ), whom he intensely disliked ( a man named Fitch, who had married into the wealthy Spanish Colonial Moraga family ).
* Other characters from the book have been cut from the film, including the Thénardiers ' other children ( Azelma and two unnamed youngest sons ), Petit Gervais, Mabeuf, M. Gillenormand, Patron-Minette and the members of the Friends of the ABC.
The same unnamed technique also appeared in Irving Wallace's book The Word ( 1972 ).
In the original novel, of course, the unnamed Good Witch of the North genuinely believed that the Wizard of Oz was the only entity powerful enough to send Dorothy back home to Kansas, while Glinda the Good Witch ( later " Sorceress ") of the South does not claim to be similarly powerful until the sixth book, The Emerald City of Oz, by which point in time she creates " The Great Book of Records ," which chronicles everything that takes place inside as well as outside Oz.
He published the book with the financial assistance, he claims, of a number of unnamed contributors.
The whole of Book II ( the former part of which is lost, the existing fragment beginning in the middle of the 14th proposition ) discusses a method of multiplication from an unnamed book by Apollonius of Perga.
Il Bibliotecario (" The Librarian "): a peculiar comic strip made always of two-frames variations on the same theme: in the first the librarian greets an unnamed elderly woman with a flowery and archaic sentence and the woman will ask for an impossibly difficult to find ancient book, such as the " Gabinetto Armonico " of Filippo Bonanni.
In the book, Master Darque creates a voodoo doll of Steven Tyler and trades Jack Boniface ( Shadowman ) Tyler's soul for an as yet unnamed favor.
She is unnamed in most of the book.
Set in an unnamed African country after independence, the book is narrated by Salim, an ethnically Indian Muslim and a shopkeeper in a small, growing city in the country's remote interior.
Triggerfish Twist is the fourth book in Tim Dorsey's as-yet unnamed series of books which were centered on Serge A. Storms.
Florida Roadkill is the first book in the unnamed series of books by Tim Dorsey which were centered on his character Serge Storms.

unnamed and seemed
French scholar Victor Saxer dates the identification of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute, and as Mary of Bethany, to a sermon by Pope Gregory the Great on September 21, 591 A. D., where he seemed to combine the actions of three women mentioned in the New Testament and also identified an unnamed woman as Mary Magdalene.

unnamed and consider
Because Kevin Eastman's original " ninja turtle " concept drawing ( 1983 ) portrayed an unnamed turtle with nunchaku strapped to its arms, some consider Michelangelo to be the first Ninja Turtle created.
Some sources consider an unnamed daughter of Theodore to be the wife of Suleyman Çelebi, the Edirne Sultan during the Ottoman Interregnum.

unnamed and stories
The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of " the Illustrated Man ", a vagrant with a tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets.
Earliest stories would either show Clark's hometown as unnamed or even as Metropolis ( or its suburbs ).
Aside from its treatment of unnamed rank-and-file Rakshasas, the epic tells the stories of certain members of the race who rose to prominence, some of them as heroes, most of them as villains.
This unnamed MacDuff appears frequently in stories connected to the rise of Malcolm III to the throne, and was later immortalised in the Shakespearean character Macduff.
Characters resembling Dilton ( in appearance and personality ) appeared quite early in Archie stories — one can be seen, unnamed, in Archie Comics # 1.
There is one other character who never appears in the stories: an unnamed clown or pierrot who turns a roller caption to display the show's closing credits.
* Alan Simpson played an unnamed man who listened patiently to Hancock's long-winded stories in early episodes.
In the earlier stories, the unnamed first-person narrator returns very briefly to close out the tale back at the Angler's Rest -- in later stories, the story ends when Mr. Mulliner has concluded it.
His mother is usually unnamed but plays a significant role in the stories.
At the time there was nothing strange about a series of stories portraying as a positive and likeable protagonist the governor of an ( unnamed ) British colony in West Africa, who relies upon gun boats cruising along a major African river to enforce British rule and who-while not gratuitously cruel-does not shrink from using brute force on occasion.
Launched in 1963, the first stories were mainly set at General Hospital in an unnamed midsized Eastern city ( the name of the city, Port Charles, would not be mentioned until the late 1970s under Gloria Monty ), revolving around Dr. Steve Hardy ( John Beradino ) and his friend, Nurse Jessie Brewer ( Emily McLaughlin ).
In the magazine stories and mini-novels, Yotsuba owns an unnamed talking toucan ( not surprisingly, it can only say " checki " and " Ani-chama ").
His talents are strong enough that he appears able to read the mind of his companion, the unnamed narrator of all three stories.
The teen, born Elric Freeman, took the name Elric Whitemane in honor of his new Kymellian heritage ( intimating that the unnamed Kymellian pilot was that reality's Aelfyre Whitemane ), and combining his horse-like alternate form with his love of stories of the American Old West, assumed a cowboy-like costumed identity as Kid Colt to fight oppression on the rapidly-deteriorating Earth counterpart.
Michener as narrator gives a first-person voice to several of the stories as an unnamed " Commander ", performing duties similar to those he performed himself in World War II.
He also appears to be the unnamed writer to whom the Azazel stories are narrated.
; Mutagenic Spore Aliens: Not intrinsically connected with any holiday but appearing only during holiday stories, the unnamed spores have the power to reconstruct their victims at a genetic level, turning them into monsters under their control.
Julianne Nicholson plays Sara Quinn, the interviewer unnamed in the stories.
Hempel purposefully leaves her stories ' narrators unnamed, as " there are more possibilities when you don't pin down a person with a name and an age and a background because then people can bring something to them or take something from them.
" Works Diesel " is a reader-applied name ; he carries no identifying number and is unnamed in the stories.
The 1950s stories were thus considered outside of official canon until Englehart's 1972 Captain America storyline (# 153-156 ; September-December 1972 ), which attempted to resolve the discrepancy by showing how a teenager ( Monroe is simply referred to as " Bucky " throughout, the name " Jack Monroe " was introduced in later stories ) and an unnamed man ( later known as " The Grand Director ") had assumed both the public and private identities of the original Captain America and Bucky as part of a government-sponsored program which planned to replace the lost heroes to combat the " red threat ".

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