Or what was it that, before Via, Sonny, Walter and all, I began almost to dance with shuddering and cry out, `` I knew she'd do it!!

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Also in 1936, Hawks began filming Come and Get It, starring Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer and Walter Brennan.

James is supposed to have remarked in Scots that " it cam wi a lass, it will gang wi a lass " – referring to the House of Stewart which began with Walter Stewart's marriage to the daughter of Robert the Bruce.

In literature the most successful figure of the mid-nineteenth century was Walter Scott, who began as a poet and also collected and published Scottish ballads.

Composer Walter Niemann declared " The fact that Brahms began his creative activity with the German folk song and closed with the Bible reveals ... the true religious creed of this great man of the people.

He began his architectural career as an apprentice at the studio of Peter Behrens from 1908 to 1912, where he was exposed to the current design theories and to progressive German culture, working alongside Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.

The Guyanese historian Walter Rodney describes mercantilism as the period of the world-wide development of European commerce, which began in the fifteenth century with the voyages of Portuguese and Spanish explorers to Africa, Asia and the New World.

Their fortunes began to improve with the arrival of nineteen-year-old pitcher, Walter Johnson, in 1907.

The Commission's first president was Walter Hallstein ( see Hallstein Commission ) who started consolidating European law and began to impact on national legislation.

Construction began with the interdict hanging over Normandy, but it was later repealed in April 1197 by Pope Celestine III, after Richard made gifts of land to Walter de Coutances and the diocese of Rouen, including two manors and the prosperous port of Dieppe.

Vegemite's rise to popularity was helped by the marketing campaigns written by J. Walter Thompson advertising that began in 1954, using groups of smiling, attractive healthy children singing a catchy jingle entitled " We're happy little Vegemites ".

Following successes at Kummersdorf with the first two Aggregate series rockets, Wernher von Braun and Walter Riedel began thinking of a much larger rocket in the summer of 1936, based on a projected 25-metric-ton-thrust engine.

Development on WarGames began in 1979, when writers Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker developed an idea for a script called The Genius, about " a dying scientist and the only person in the world who understands him – a rebellious kid who's too smart for his own good.

Singer began to study brainwashing in the 1950s at Walter Reed Army Medical Center Institute of Research in Washington, D. C., where she interviewed U. S. soldiers who had been taken prisoner during the Korean War.

Supercentenarian Walter Breuning, the world's oldest verified living man from September 21, 1896 to his death on April 14, 2011, began working as a railroader for Hill's company in 1913 at the age of 17.

In an international design competition conducted by the Department of Home Affairs, on 24 May 1911, the design by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin was chosen for the city, and in 1913 Griffin was appointed Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction and construction began.

On 4 September he recalled Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt from retirement, in which condition he had been since Hitler had dismissed him as Wehrmacht Commander-in-Chief West on 2 July, and reinstated him in his former command, replacing Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model, who had taken command just 18 days previously and would henceforth command only Army Group B. Rundstedt immediately began to plan a defence against what Wehrmacht intelligence judged to be 60 Allied divisions at full strength, although Eisenhower in fact possessed only 49 divisions.

It began as the Texas Fuel Company, founded in 1901 in Beaumont, Texas, by Joseph S. Cullinan, Thomas J. Donoghue, Walter Benona Sharp, and Arnold Schlaet upon the discovery of oil at Spindletop.

The modern era of the NCAA began in July 1952 when its executive director, Kansas City, Missouri native Walter Byers, moved the organization's headquarters from the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago ( where its offices were shared by the headquarters of the Big Ten Conference ) to the Fairmount Building at 101 West 11th Street in Downtown Kansas City.

Homer's voice began as a loose impression of Walter Matthau, but Castellaneta could not " get enough power behind that voice " and could not sustain his Matthau impression for the nine to ten hour long recording sessions.

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.

He began reading Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, and other modern writers of fiction and cultivated a lifelong love for Longfellow, whose verse he sometimes employed as a model for his own.

Swing music began in the 1920s, distinguished by a more supple feel than the more literal 4 / 4 of earlier jazz and a walking bass — Walter Page is often credited with developing this, though isolated earlier examples exist ( e. g., by Wellman Braud on Ellington's Washington Wabble from 1927 ).

Walter de Gray was made archbishop in 1215 and ordered the construction of a Gothic structure to compare to Canterbury ; building began in 1220.

** Naval NCO Academy " Walter Steffens " in Parow ( naval training of NCOs and seamen )

In 1929 Walter Kreiser, one of the writers for Die Weltbühne, published an expose of the training of a special air unit of the Reichswehr, referred to as Abteilung M (" M Battalion "), which was secretly training in Germany and in Soviet Russia, in violation of Germany's agreements under the Treaty of Versailles.

In a reminiscence on his early training as an advocate in Edinburgh, Sir Walter Scott describes the law as " Scotch Law " some four times and as " Scots Law " just once.

Gen. Walter R. Weaver, acting chief of the Air Corps, had his job eliminated and was relegated to a technical training command.

The Guardian reported on 20 April 2009 that a leaked British National Party training manual described some members as " liars oddballs and Walter Mitty types ".

Ophthalmologist Walter B. Lancaster, for example, suggested in 1944 that Huxley had " learned how to use what he has to better advantage " by training the " cerebral part of seeing ", rather than actually improving the quality of the image on the retina.

Walter regularly writes articles about compilers and programming, is known for engaging and informative presentations, and provides training in compiler development techniques.

Many of Barlow ’ s Special Forces students would later join him at EO after he started recruiting men to assist with the training of the Angolan forces Say's Walter Halicki one of Eeben's associates in the FAA.

He was first assigned to duty as a physical instructor at Walter Reed General Hospital and then went through Officers ' training at Fort Benning.

Walter received early training in a variety of fields including masonry, mathematics, physical science, and the fine arts.

Coincidentally, a military veteran from Springfield with explosives training, Walter Umenhofer, was at the scene scoping a potential manufacturing site for his employer.

Walter M. Gibson had been acting as attorney general, even though he had no legal training.

At the end of training camp, Eugene was released by Frankfurt, then acquired by 3-time World Bowl champions Berlin Thunder, where he replaced third-string quarterback Walter Washington, who was released after camp, and injured back-up Omar Jacobs.

Under its founding manager, Walter Betsworth, Waterloo Municipal Airport expanded from a WWII training airstrip to a flourishing regional airport.

The colt was sent into training with Michael Stoute at Newmarket and was ridden in all his races by Walter Swinburn.

Walter McGowan MBE-1960s World Flyweight Boxing Champion, was also born in Burnbank, and used the old Glenlee House as a training base.

Around that time, as a result of continued prejudice against Brooklyn's African American ballplayers during spring training, Dodgers owner Walter O ' Malley sent Bavasi to find property at which to establish a permanent spring training facility.