It is cited as a non-fiction series which has successfully used a formula to entice young children into reading: " The information here is densely packed, at a suitable level for Key Stages 2 and 3, historically accurate and complete with cautions about history being interpretive, but the success lies in the humorous and varied way that the subjects are presented ".

( 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??

In it, Annabelle Whitford, a young dancer from Broadway, is dressed in white veils that appear to change colors as she dances.

In the summer of 1940 Williams initiated an affair with Kip Kiernan ( 1918 – 1944 ), a young Canadian dancer he met in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Recent research, however, reveals that the song was chosen from the collection of young Peter Ford, the son of Blackboard Jungle star Glenn Ford and dancer Eleanor Powell.

Then, Wang Lung becomes besotted with Lotus ( Tilly Losch ), a pretty, young dancer at the local tea house, and makes her his second wife.

The movie employs the story within a story device, being about a young ballerina who joins an established ballet company and becomes the lead dancer in a new ballet called The Red Shoes, itself based on the fairy tale " The Red Shoes " by Hans Christian Andersen.

Victoria ' Vicky ' Page ( Moira Shearer ) is a young, unknown dancer from an aristocratic background.

The same year he met Yvonne Vallée, a young dancer, who became his wife in 1927.

During the last four years of his life, Miller held an ongoing correspondence of over 1500 letters with Brenda Venus, a young and vivacious Playboy playmate, actress and dancer.

Following studies in Paris as a young man, August became solo dancer at the Royal Ballet in Copenhagen.

He also marries Mary, a young singer / dancer.

While filming L ' aventure c ' est l ' aventure on location in the Caribbean, Brel met and fell in love with a young actress and dancer by the name of Maddly Bamy.

During the London run, his marriage to Rosemary ended in divorce, and Keel fell in love with a young member of the show's chorus, dancer Helen Anderson.

When Lys Assia was a young girl she was a dancer.

The story deals with a young Chinese woman who illegally comes to America in hopes of marrying a wealthy young Chinese-American man, who is already in love with a Chinatown nightclub dancer.

Having just served five years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Billy Brown ( Vincent Gallo ) kidnaps a young tap dancer named Layla ( Christina Ricci ) and forces her to pretend to be his wife.

* Adagio: essentially a sort of cross between a dance act and a juggling act, consisting usually of a male dancer who threw a slim, pretty young girl around.

At the Lido de Paris he met and fell in love with the young Austrian / Czech dancer Herta Schiel, who had fled Vienna with her sister Molly at the time of the Anschluss.

Mars is himself a dancer, and the head of the Salian dancers, patrician young men whose parents were both living ( patrimi and matrimi ).

A young student who was a high shcool dutch dancer was dancing for alumni when she was assualted by

: The latest in the long line of bearers, Danielle is an impulsive but goodhearted young dancer who was born in New Orleans.

The young woman Charity Hope Valentine is a taxi dancer at a dance hall called the Fandango Ballroom in New York City.

While the businessmen ponder the question of whether to pay up or not, it is the women who take an active part in fighting the terrorists, most notably Nadia ( Joanna Bukovska ), a young Russian dancer who has fallen in love with Chase and who even saves his life when he is attacked by one of the thugs.

In 1904, Kraus supported Frank Wedekind to make possible the staging in Vienna of his controversial play, Pandora's Box ; the play told the story of a sexually-enticing young dancer who rises in German society through her relationships with wealthy men, but who later falls into poverty and prostitution.

The bergfilm genre was primarily the creation of director Arnold Fanck, and examples like The Holy Mountain ( 1926 ) and White Ecstasy ( 1931 ) are notable for the appearance of Austrian skiing legend Hannes Schneider and a young Leni Riefenstahl.

" When Muller meets up with Wulf and Steven at Scowling Joe's, the young pilot makes a show of strong affection for his female friend, then quickly escorts her back to their apartments, where he fumbles through an attempt at sex with Leni.

Riefenstahl went on to star in many of Fanck ’ s mountain films as an athletic and adventurous young woman with a suggestive appeal ; she became an accomplished mountaineer during the winters of filming on mountains and learned filmmaking techniques.

Made in 1931, the comedy film was a fictional account of the skiing exploits of a young village girl, played by Riefenstahl, and her attempts to master the sport of skiing and ski-jumping aided by the local ski expert Hannes Schneider.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

Donna, his young wife, the girl who was both daughter and wife to him.

I myself was fond of him but what a young woman half his age saw in him was a mystery to me.

He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

This young slave was therefore quite unprepared when Delphine Lalaurie signaled that she wanted him to draw near.

A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.

One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.

and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.

She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.

`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.

The sickness was gone and, after all, the two young couples were on their honeymoon.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.