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When Douglas Fairbanks was on honeymoon in Paris in 1920, he offered him star billing with his new wife Mary Pickford, but Chevalier doubted his own talent for silent movies ( his previous ones had largely failed )..
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When the stock exchange opened this morning, many dealers were quick to purchase shares in Douglas, Lockheed and United Aircraft and prices rose substantially.
When creating the murals Alston was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, who a year earlier had created the public art piece Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library, and researched traditional African culture, including traditional African medicine.
When he died the titles passed to his eldest son from his second marriage to Harriet Douglas, the fifth Earl.
When Michael Heseltine challenged Margaret Thatcher's leadership of the Conservative Party in November 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd were her proposer and seconder on her nomination papers.
When it reaches the towns of Saugatuck and Douglas it stops and enters Lake Michigan.
When Douglas Jardine later saw film footage of the Oval incident and noticed Bradman's discomfort, he shouted, " I've got it!
When a projected international crusade failed to materialise, Douglas and his company sailed to Spain where Alfonso XI of Castile was mounting a campaign against the Moorish kingdom of Granada.
When he instructed Douglas, Clay was nearly dead and unable to guide the congressional debate any further.
When the final votes were counted, Banting finished fourth behind Tommy Douglas, Terry Fox and Pierre Trudeau.
When Richard Dreyfuss appeared on The Mike Douglas Show with Peter Falk, he described the film as " the most incredible, disturbing, scary, brilliant, dark, sad, depressing movie " and added, " I went crazy.
When Charles Portal was made Chief of the Air Staff in October 1940 he supported Douglas, moving Park and Dowding and appointing Douglas to replace Dowding as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief ( AOCinC ) of Fighter Command.
* When Mike Tyson lost to James " Buster " Douglas during a WBC and WBA Heavyweight championship defense, Don King convinced the WBC ( along with the WBA ) to withhold recognition of Douglas as heavyweight champion.
When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas gave speeches in Greenville in 1858 during a campaign for the United States Senate, Douglas said: " Ladies and gentlemen it gives me great and supreme gratification and pleasure to see this vast concourse of people assembled to hear me upon this my first visit to Old Bond.
When U. S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented a Douglas DC-3 as a gift to King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud in 1945, the event marked the Kingdom's gradual development of civil aviation.
When Douglas refused to break the bond with Ross, James broke into a fit of temper and stabbed Douglas to his death.
When service entry of the Bristol Britannia was delayed in late 1956, BOAC was permitted to purchase ten new Douglas DC-7Cs.
* Homeland Security: When The Phoenix Comes Home To Roost, by Douglas Valentine.
According to Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley, " When the Swift finally made it back to the My Tho River, the crew confronted the heartbreaking sight of a huge Navy landing craft ferrying the troops back.
When the American fleet arrives, the destroyer, USS Douglas H. Fox ( DD-779 ), is shown from stock footage and is recognizable by the large numbers 779 painted on her bow section.
When they finally arrived in 1812, they built Fort Douglas, but by the time it was done, the growing season was over.
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When their film careers both began to founder at the end of the silent era Fairbanks ' restless nature prompted him to overseas travel ( something which Pickford did not enjoy ).
When Fairbanks ' romance with Sylvia, Lady Ashley became public in the early 1930s he and Pickford separated.
When Fairbanks was offered a sweetheart deal with Famous Players-Lasky, he took the team of Emerson-Loos with him at the high income of $ 500 a week.
When the three smaller Alaska colleges ( UAS, APU and Sheldon Jackson ) all shut down their sports programs in 1990, leaving just the University of Alaska Anchorage and University of Alaska Fairbanks with intercollegiate athletics programs, it had an impact on the UAS campus, Griffin said.
When that didn't materialize, Gavora opened his first grocery store on South Cushman Street in Fairbanks in 1958.
When closed, excess water is kept back upriver from Fairbanks and North Pole and, given enough water, spills into the Tanana River near North Pole about eight miles away from the Chena.
When the race runs from Fairbanks to Whitehorse, the Braeburn checkpoint is the site of a mandatory eight-hour stop to ensure the health of mushers ' dogs before the final stage.
When descending the steep northern slope of Eagle Summit on the Fairbanks – Whitehorse route, many mushers wrap their sled runners in chains to increase friction and slow the plunge.
When Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. asked him whether it might damage his career as a romantic lead to play the villain Rupert of Hentzau, he answered " Young man, I have played every part in The Prisoner of Zenda except Lady Flavia, and I can assure you that nobody ever damaged his career by playing Rupert of Hentzau ".
When he was in high school, Ahn visited the set of the film The Thief of Bagdad, where he met Douglas Fairbanks.
When World War II arrived, her services as a greeter with an intricate knowledge of available rooms in Fairbanks became vital, and the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce put her on the payroll for $ 75 a month to help military wives, construction workers, and others find a place to stay.
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When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.
When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.
When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.
`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.
When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.
`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.
When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.
When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.
When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.
When he was eight he began violin lessons.
When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.
When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.
When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.
When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.
When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
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