` Abdu ' l-Bahá soon became very popular in the penal colony and Myron Phelps a wealthy New York lawyer described how " a crowd of human beings ... Syrians, Arabs, Ethiopians, and many others ", all waited to talk and receive ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

The following year, Voight had the lead role in the television movie The Fixer, in which he played Jack Killoran, a lawyer who crosses ethical lines in order to " fix " things for his wealthy clients.

Indians in South Africa were led by wealthy Muslims, who employed Gandhi as a lawyer, and by impoverished Hindu indentured laborers with very limited rights.

Although Bismarck hoped to become a diplomat, he started his practical training as a lawyer in Aachen and Potsdam, and soon resigned, having first placed his career in jeopardy by taking unauthorized leave to pursue two English girls, first Laura Russell, niece of the Duke of Cleveland, and then Isabella Loraine-Smith, daughter of a wealthy clergyman.

William was a successful, well-connected and wealthy London lawyer who died in 1534, and Joyce was the daughter of courtier Sir Edmund Denny and the sister of Sir Anthony Denny, who was the principal gentleman of King Henry VIII's privy chamber.

Although he rarely set foot in a courtroom, Hobart became wealthy as a corporate lawyer.

Like Jack, she also focused on her career and became a very wealthy lawyer.

After the rebellion, Nathaniel Grant Marshall ( 1812-1882 ), a lawyer, had a vision to convert the poorest section of Lower Town into a first-class summer emporium for wealthy tourists.

The town was laid out by former Confederate Colonel George W. Imboden, a wealthy lawyer.

Niépce was born in Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, where his father was a wealthy lawyer ; this caused the whole family to flee the French Revolution.

Born into a wealthy and prominent family, her father was Boris Gurwik-Górski, a Polish lawyer, and her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Polish socialite.

In what amounts to a confession, Clamence tells of his success as a wealthy Parisian defense lawyer who was highly respected by his colleagues ; his crisis, and his ultimate " fall " from grace, was meant to invoke, in secular terms, The Fall of Man in the Garden of Eden.

Orphaned at a young age, he was adopted by his aunt Maria Eva Rodriguez Rivero, who was married to lawyer Tomás Liscano, and became part of a wealthy Venezuelan Roman Catholic family.

His father Jesse Benton, a wealthy lawyer and landowner, died in 1790.

She was born Lilya Kagan () into a wealthy Jewish family of a lawyer and a music teacher in Moscow.

His father Kunjalal Ganguly was a lawyer and his mother Gouri Devi came from a wealthy Bengali Kulin Brahmin family.

Capano was a wealthy, well-connected lawyer, known to nearly everyone in Delaware's political community.

The largest cell of Żegota ( Felicja ) was led by Mieczysław Herling-Grudziński, a wealthy lawyer, who hid 600 Jews ( out of the 3, 000 helped by Żegota in Warsaw ) on his suburban estate in Boernerowo ( today Bemowo ).

Halleck became a wealthy man as a lawyer and land speculator, and a noted collector of " Californiana.

Her family had not been wealthy ; her father was a lawyer and her mother owned a small shop.

Floyd Bostwick Odlum ( March 30, 1892, Union City, Michigan – June 17, 1976, Indio, California ) was a wealthy lawyer and industrialist.

Bradlee's maternal grandfather, Carl August de Gersdorff ( 1865 – 1944 ), was a wealthy New York lawyer, and his maternal grandmother was Helen Suzette Crowninshield ( 1868 – 1941 ), daughter of artist Frederic Crowninshield

His mother died seven days after he was born, and he was brought up by his maternal grandfather, a wealthy Brahmin lawyer, who was also involved in the Theosophical Society.

A wealthy lawyer in Lincolnshire prior to his departure for the New World in 1634, he was a liberal political opponent of the moderate John Winthrop, arguing for expansive views on suffrage and lawmaking, but also religiously somewhat conservative, opposing ( at times quite harshly ) the efforts of Quakers and Baptists to settle in the colony.

* William Tudor, wealthy lawyer and signatory of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

* Christine Baranski as Maryann Thorpe – Cybill's best friend, she is a former receptionist — now fabulously wealthy due to her divorce settlement with her unfaithful ex-husband, celebrity plastic surgeon Richard Thorpe ( an infrequently and never fully seen character, to whom she always refers to with a sneer as " Doctor Dick ").

Fred Madison ( Bill Pullman ), a wealthy Los Angeles saxophonist, is seen looking desheveled and smoking a cigarette in his dimly-lit living room one morning when he receives a message from an unknown man on the intercom of the front door of his house saying, " Dick Laurent is dead.

The house was built in 1837 by Mr. James & Nathaniel Dick of the N & J Dick Company, two wealthy New Orleans cotton merchants.

On a 1992 episode of Full House, Linn-Baker played Dick Donaldson, the wealthy, snobbish cousin of Becky Donaldson Katsopolis ( Lori Loughlin ).

Opposing her was wealthy Republican businessman Dick DeVos.

She also played Donald Hollinger's mother on That Girl, Howard Sprague's mother on The Andy Griffith Show, Dick Preston's mother on The New Dick Van Dyke Show, and Mrs. Van Hoskins, a wealthy woman whose jewels are stolen, in the screwball comedy, What's Up, Doc?

She played Richard Diamond's girlfriend, the wealthy Helen Asher, on the radio series Richard Diamond, Private Detective ( starring Dick Powell as Diamond ).

A wealthy Quaker named Reuben Haines proposed he and educator William Russell start a new school in Pennsylvania.

Luis Vargas ( Antonio Banderas ), a wealthy Hispanic-Cuban businessman, sends for American Julia Russell ( Angelina Jolie ) to sail to his country to be his bride.

Russell Page, who began his career in the Brownian landscape of Longleat but whose own designs have formal structure, accused Brown of " encouraging his wealthy clients to tear out their splendid formal gardens and replace them with his facile compositions of grass, tree clumps and rather shapeless pools and lakes ".

Russell was known for playing character roles, exceptionally wealthy, dignified ladylike women, as well as for being one of the few actresses of her time who regularly played professional women, such as judges, reporters, and psychiatrists.

Russell approached director Frank Lloyd for help changing her image ; but, instead of helping her, Lloyd cast her as a wealthy aristocrat in Under Two Flags ( 1936 ).

At trial, Suzie admits that she and Kelly had made the whole thing up to get revenge on Lombardo: Suzie for him leaving her in jail and Kelly for him having an affair with her wealthy socialite mother, Sandra ( Russell ).

Examples of architecture drawing from the city's wealthy beginnings include Toowoomba City Hall which was Queensland's first purpose-built town hall, the National Trust Royal Bull's Head Inn and many examples in the heritage-listed Russell Street.

The Russells had been given a portion of land in lower Rotherhithe by a wealthy Streatham landowner, John Howland, as part of a wedding dowry for his daughter Elizabeth, granddaughter of Sir Josiah Child-the dictatorial chairman of the East India Company, who married Wrothesley Russell, the Marquis of Tavistock.

When three wealthy followers are found to have died under mysterious circumstances after willing their fortunes to the cause, Russell and Holmes are drawn into a deeper mystery.

Russell became a wealthy woman, and during the Actors ' Equity strike of 1919, she made a major donation of money to sponsor the formation of the Chorus Equity Association by the chorus girls at the Ziegfeld Follies.

In 1914, Compton Wynyates served as the inspiration, when the firm of noted American architect John Russell Pope designed Branch House for wealthy scion and financier John Kerr Branch ( 1865-1930 ) and his wife.

Russell investigates and finds that the mystery is linked to a powerful local family, the heir of which is a wealthy United States senator, Joseph Carmichael.

He then went bankrupt and sold the house to Thomas Russell, a wealthy Boston merchant, who in turn occupied it until 1791.

His close friendship and longtime business associations with Frederick Russell Burnham, the highly decorated Scout who he knew from Africa, led Hammond to became a wealthy oil man when Burnham Exploration Company struck oil at Dominguez Hill, near Carson, California, in 1923.

Skylands Manor, a forty-four-room English Jacobean mansion, was designed in the 1920s by John Russell Pope for Clarence McKensie Lewis, a wealthy stockbroker and civil engineer.