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When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:
Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.
It has been related by an Italian writer and since repeated by several biographers, that Canova was indebted to a trivial circumstance – the moulding of a lion in butter – for the warm interest which Falier took in his welfare.
Notably, from 1985 to 1988, author and television writer Hugh Miller wrote seventeen novels, detailing the lives of many of the show's original characters before 1985, when events on screen took place.
When Langdon eventually left Sennett in order to make longer, feature-length movies with First National Studios, he took Capra with him to be his personal writer and director.
The connection between the wealth of the banana trade and the influence of outsiders, particularly North Americans, led O. Henry, the American writer who took temporary refuge in Honduras in 1896-97, to coin the term " Banana Republic " to describe Honduras.
While imprisoned, he became actively involved, as an actor, writer, producer, and set-designer, in the amateur theatrical productions which took place in the camp, finding them " a source of great pleasure and amusement ".
His death rites took place at the courtyard of the Louvre Palace on September 1, 1965 under the direction of writer and thinker André Malraux, who was at the time France's Minister of Culture.
The writer remarked in his diary: " Yesterday, at the quay, while passing me by, she stopped and took me by the hand.
* The satirist and short story writer Hector Hugh Monro took his pen name of ' Saki ' from Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat.
The draft script's opening sequence took place on the solar observatory with two Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-influenced characters talking shortly before the Romulans ' attack ; Next Generation writer Jeri Taylor suggested that the opening should be something " fun ", leading to the switch to a holodeck promotion-at-sea.
The Village Voice writer Howard Smith, in the bar with the police, took a wrench from the bar and stuffed it in his pants, unsure if he might have to use it against the mob or the police.
As writer Mark Twain said, " It took a brave man before the Civil War to confess he had read the Age of Reason ... I read it first when I was a cub pilot, read it with fear and hesitation, but marveling at its fearlessness and wonderful power.
William of Poitiers describes a council called by Duke William, in which the writer gives an account of a great debate that took place between William's nobles and supporters over whether to risk an invasion of England.
X-Men had its title changed at this time to New X-Men and new writer Grant Morrison took over.
The house seen in the opening and closing titles to the 1960s episodes was located on Garnet Street in Wapping ( from where writer Johnny Speight took the Garnett family name ) and this terrace was demolished in the 1980s.
In 1992, following a financial reorganization of their comic strip holdings, Max Allan Collins was fired from the strip, and Tribune staff writer and columnist Mike Kilian took over the writing.
The Portuguese writer and historian Jaime Cortesão ( 1884 — 1960 ) reported a story that Arabs were known to have visited an island which they referred to as " Aulil " or " Ulil " where they took salt from naturally occurring salinas.
King also talks about his fame as a writer, and what it took to get there.
People like Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao shifted more to the Left and were among the leading founders of the 1921 Communist Party of China, whilst other intellectuals, such as the Anarchist writer and agitator, Ba Jin also took part in the movement.
With issue No. 168 ( Jan. 1981 ), Miller took over full duties as writer and penciller, with Klaus Janson as inker.
At age 18 she returned to Vienna, took a job and tried to meet the writer.
This story is related somewhat differently by the Roman writer Ovid: Arethusa, a beautiful nymph, once while bathing in the river Alfeios in Arcadia, was surprised and pursued by the river god ; but the goddess Artemis took pity upon her and changed her into a well, which flowed under the earth to the island of Ortygia.
The 2nd century writer Lucian gave an account of the Greek Deucalion in De Dea Syria that seems to refer more to the Near Eastern flood legends: in his version, Deucalion ( whom he also calls Sisythus ) took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij ( northern Syria ), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters ; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.

writer and class
The writer began this special class by explaining his background thinking for creating such a section in the first place.
Though it did not become known to the writer for some time, a nucleus group had sprung up within the class.
Since her bereavement this individual has reported to the writer on numerous occasions about how helpful the class discussions were to her in this adjustment crisis.
The class writer has the option to rename the inherited features to separate them.
Spike Milligan, writer of The Goon Show, remarked that a lot of blue innuendo came from serviceman's jokes, which most of the cast understood ( they all had been soldiers ) and many of the audience understood, but which passed over the heads of most of the BBC producers and directors, most of whom were " Officer class.
The writer mentioned that the English master was making his class analyse Beatles ' lyrics.
The writer cites his proximity to the main character, his comparative working class status to best friend Willow ( as with Weasley and Hermione ), his status as an object of mockery in school.
That the depredations of the ruling classes were mostly responsible for the uprising of the bagaudae was not lost on the fifth-century writer of historicised polemic, Salvian ; setting himself in the treatise De gubernatione Dei the task of proving God's constant guidance, he declares in book iii that the misery of the Roman world is all due to the neglect of God's commandments and the terrible sins of every class of society.
* Hal Higdon, class of 1953, runner and writer
* Patricia Collins Wrede, class of 1974, fantasy writer.
* Pamela Dean, class of 1975, fantasy writer.
class of 1979, writer of techno-thrillers
* Jack El-Hai, class of 1979, writer and journalist.
* William G. Moseley, class of 1987, writer and professor of geography
* Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, class of 1992, James Beard Award-winning food writer.
* Peter Gwinn, class of 1993, writer for The Colbert Report.
The looks and personality came from two primary sources: writer Peter Viertel and a man Laurents referred to only as " Tony Blue Eyes ," an acquaintance who inspired the scene where the creative writing instructor reads Hubbell's short story to his class.
At its founding, four distinct courses of lectures of this class were then established: one on Philology, offered by distinguished scholar and statesman, George P. Marsh ; a second by Dr. Francis Lieber, a standard writer upon topics of Political Science and of International Law, then a professor at Columbia College ; a third course on Ethics, by Professor Nairne, also of the College ; and a fourth on Municipal Law, by Theodore W. Dwight, then Professor of Law in Hamilton College, New York, which at the time already had a flourishing Law School.
Then came La Mer ( 1861 ), a return to the natural history class, which, considering the powers of the writer and the attraction of the subject, is perhaps a little disappointing.
He currently works as a technical writer in Virginia, where he lives with his wife, fellow author L. Jagi Lamplighter ( St. John's College of Maryland, class of 1985 ), and their children.
In his own account: " My father was from a family of Romanian traders from Botoşani, who were later received into the boyar class, while my mother is the daughter of Romanian writer Elena Drăghici, the niece of chronicler Manolache Drăghici [...].
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* Zhang Chengzhi, writer, once audited a class in Kazakh
* Marc Fisher, class of 1976, writer and editor for The Washington Post

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