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man and Tom
Tom told me about it, how one evening he went over to see the Theatre Guild man.
The man, Tom said, explained that it was not only too long and detailed but that as it stood it wasn't the sort of thing the public wanted.
The public, Tom said the man told him, wanted realism, and his play wasn't that.
Tom was not willing to revise the play according to the plan the man suggested.
Tom Cain uses the expression " founding myths " more broadly, to encompass such stories as those of the War in Heaven and the fall of man ; according to Cain, " the disastrous consequences of disobedience " is a pervasive theme in Christian founding myths.
This device is used by folk musicians, " one man bands " and singer / songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Tom Harmon, Neil Young, Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen and blues singers Jimmy Reed and John Hammond Jr ..
In Washington Irving's story " The Devil and Tom Walker " set in 1727, Irving tells how Tom asks " the black man " who he is.
Tom replies that he must be " Old Scratch ", which is another name for the devil, and the black man acknowledges that he is Old Scratch.
* The Stompin ' Tom Connors song " To It And At It " mentions a man who " can't afford the train, he's sittin ' on a streetcar, but he's eastbound just the same.
* Floyd Knowles – the man at the Hooverville who urges Tom and Casy to join labor organizations.
The play tells the story of a young man, Tom, his disabled sister, Laura, and their controlling mother Amanda, who tries to make a match between Laura and a gentleman caller.
Stowe's Uncle Tom was a muscular and virile man who refused to obey when ordered to beat other slaves ; the stock character of minstrel shows became a shuffling asexual individual with a receding hairline and graying hair.
On board, Tom is pleased to find his uncle Steve, a military man, has arranged to get assigned to the same ship.
Mort orders a new copy of the magazine ; he also asks his caretaker Greg Carstairs to tail Shooter and to talk to a man named Tom, who drove past Mort and Shooter.
Tombstone Marshal Virgil Earp played cards with Ike Clanton, Tom McLaury, Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan and a fifth man ( unknown to Ike and to history ), until morning.
A number of witnesses observed a man leading a horse into the street and firing near it, and Wyatt in his testimony thought this was Tom McLaury.
He then tried to get into " society " by sponsoring bare-knuckle boxer Tom Molineaux ( the first black man to contend for a championship ) and subsequently married Flashman's mother Lady Alicia Paget, a fictional relation of the real Marquess of Anglesey.
Even though he and his wife Emily Shelby believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them — Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby ’ s maid Eliza — to a slave trader.
Emily Shelby is averse to this idea because she had promised her maid that her child would never be sold ; Emily's son, George Shelby, hates to see Tom go because he sees the man as his friend and mentor.
" The stereotype of him as a " subservient fool who bows down to the white man " evidently resulted from staged " Tom Shows ", over which Stowe had no control.
The film stars Sean Connery, who plays Allan Quatermain, and features Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner aka An Invisible Man ( the rights could not be secured to The Invisible Man ), Dr. Jekyll / Edward Hyde, Dorian Gray, and U. S. Secret Service agent Tom Sawyer ( Gray and Sawyer were not in the comics, although a painting of a young man holding a cane with " Dorian Gray " printed under it appears on the cover of Volume I ).

man and said
`` McLish '', he said as he kicked the horse into motion, `` I'd be a mighty sad man if we never met again ''.
`` From a man in St. Louis '', Wilson said.
`` She's not a man, mister '', he said.
`` I'll bet that's as close as you've been to a man since you were a baby '', Wilson said.
Six hundred and forty acres, the old man back in St. Louis had said ; ;
`` It's Curtiss '', he said, naming the man Rankin had hit.
I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.
The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.
The man said.
The man said, backing up a step, still looking down.
The man said with a tone of impatience.
The patrolman said to no one in particular as he pushed between the fat man in the baseball cap and a young boy in levis.
`` Mough -- it's my mough '', the man said, trying to talk without moving his lips.
`` I am an honest man '', the German said with fervor.
`` A charcoal pit, man '', he said, indicating the slightly-smoking makeshift brazier.
`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.
Idje, here '', and he nodded at the man, `` is said to have great odor.
`` You know '', the lawyer said, `` it's difficult to talk like this about a man who can't answer back ''.
`` I should, of course '', he said, `` like any other man, be honored and gratified should the Democrats see fit to nominate me.
Mando, pleading her cause, must have said that Dr. Brown was the most distinguished physician in the United States of America, for our man poured out his symptoms and drew a madly waving line indicating the irregularity of his pulse.
He said Gorton was a holy man ; ;
He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

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