( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

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.

Having ( through my unflagging effort and devotion ) achieved stardom, a fortune and a world-renowned wife at an age when most young men are casting their first vote, Letch proceeded to neglect them all.

After another two weeks, the first young emerge, four to eight small daughters that begin to play the role of worker bees, collecting pollen and nectar in the field and caring for the new young generation while the queen retires to a life of egg laying.

He concluded that in the southern species, which are rapidly growing types, females mate at the age of two and a half and bear the first young when they are three.

Other herpetologists have ascertained that in the northern United States the prairie rattlesnake may not give first birth until it is four or even five years old, and that the young may be born every other year, rather than annually.

To be sure, in tool-and-die work and in the building trades, the first job must be often on an apprentice basis, but two years of half-time vocational training enables the young man thus to anticipate one year of apprentice status.

`` I bought my first dress from him when I was still a struggling young actress '', she reminisces.

A young real estate salesman, Kern first got seriously interested in the problems posed by Communism when in the Navy Air Force.

Until that first dedication service, he and Lois felt their children were too young to take part in any religious life at home.

She is just home from a sojourn in London where she has become the sweetheart of a young fellow named Ronnie ( we never do see him ) and has been subjected to a first course in thinking and appreciating, including a dose of good British socialism.

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

He encouraged his children to watch films ; young Akira viewed his first movies at the age of six.

An important formative influence was his elementary school teacher Mr Tachikawa, whose progressive educational practices ignited in his young pupil first a love of drawing and then an interest in education in general.

Towards the end of October, Castel's new anti-plague serum is tried for the first time, but it cannot save the life of Othon's young son, who suffers greatly, as Paneloux, Rieux, and Tarrou look on in horror.

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

" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.

Even when this elder brother first displayed symptoms of delicate health, the notion that he might die young was never taken seriously, and he was betrothed to the Princess Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ).

The life of Amalasunta was made the subject of a tragedy, the first play written by the young Goldoni and presented at Milan in ( 1733 ).

As soon as he woke from the dream, the young Aeschylus began writing a tragedy, and his first performance took place in 499 BC, when he was only 26 years old ; He would win his first victory at the City Dionysia in 484 BC.

Amongst those who patronized the old man was the patrician family Falier of Venice, and by this means young Canova was first introduced to the senator of that name, who afterwards became his most zealous patron.

" This internal destruction can be found as early as the first chapter as Paul comments that, although all the boys are young, their youth has left them.

It ranged from a freshman woman, just married, through the various academic growth stages, including one senior-graduate student, to a young faculty member recently married to a senior man who also attended.

As a young boy, Tarrou attended one day of a criminal proceeding in which a man was on trial for his life.

Several of the actors also attended including James Robinson ( Young William ), Andrew Weir ( Young Hamish ), Julie Austin ( the young bride ) and Mhairi Calvey ( Young Murron ).

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at the unusually early age of twelve ( possibly as young as ten ) at a time when fourteen was normal.

After World War II, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where the young Hopper attended Saturday art classes at the Kansas City Art Institute.

He was a celebrated bon vivant whose luxurious home was the site of weekly Sunday afternoon parties attended by closeted celebrities and the attractive young men they met in bars and gyms and brought with them.

Though he did not attend high school, the young Hoover attended night school and learned bookkeeping, typing, and mathematics.

As a young man, Cagney became interested in farming – sparked by a soil conservation lecture he had attended – and during his first walkout from Warners, he found a farm in Martha's Vineyard ; owning a farm had long been a dream of his.

Nicknamed " Kim " after the young boy in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim, Philby attended Aldro preparatory school.

On some occasions, young players, most but not all from the English-speaking world, have attended U. S. colleges before playing in the NBA.

His lectures were published, as recreated from his students ' notes ; among those who attended was the young Erasmus.

Robert Lee attended school at Eastern View, a school for young gentlemen, in Fauquier County, and then at the Alexandria Academy, free for local boys, where he showed an aptitude for mathematics.

The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not.

On 26 January 1877, the young poet entered the Godolphin school, which he attended for four years.

Nathaniel and Eleazar, his two sons by his first wife, attended Cambridge University, and died at a young age without issue.

While still very young he moved to Rome, where he attended the studies at the Accademia Nazionale d ' Arte Drammatica.

The IJK is an event of concerts, presentations, excursions, and recreation, usually of one week's duration and attended by a few hundred young people from many different countries.

Many Babylonians, mostly males, attended this festival at a young age.

Robertson has said, " Although I worked hard at my studies, my real major centered around lovely young ladies who attended the nearby girls schools.

Tange also enrolled in the film division at Nihon University's art department to dodge Japan's drafting of young men to its military and seldom attended classes.

The IJK is a week-long event of concerts, presentations, excursions attended by hundreds of young people from all over the world.

As a young man, Petty worked briefly on the grounds crew for the University of Florida, but never attended as a student.

As a young boy, Walter attended a Jewish non-profit sleepaway camp, Tranquillity Camp, where he first began acting in the shows the camp would stage on Saturday nights.

On one occasion, young Oscar Wilde attended one of Whistler's dinners, and hearing his host make some brilliant remark, apparently said, " I wish I'd said that ", to which Whistler riposted, " You will, Oscar, you will!