When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.

When a family buys a home the title is subject to a perpetual easement to Tri-State.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.

When you see a needle in my hands you will know the family buttons have fallen off and I have to sew them back on, or get out the safety pins.

When King Saud visited Washington, the overwhelming question consuming the press was the size of his family.

When Aalto was 5 years old, the family moved to Alajärvi, and from there to Jyväskylä in Central Finland.

When on leave from the front, Paul feels strongly isolated from his family and removed from daily life.

When Al was 11, the Capone family moved to 38 Garfield Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

When Nils was admitted to the University of Lund, he had to take on a family name.

When Carl was born, he was named Carl Linnæus, with his father's family name.

When it was time to dismantle the city walls of the Meng family, the governor was reluctant to have his city walls torn down and convinced the head of the Meng family not to do so.

When Claudius ' disability became evident, the relationship with his family turned sour.

When a shipment of family heirloom restored portraits arrives at the castle, Laura finds one of her ancestors, " Mircalla, Countess Karnstein ", dated 1698.

When Paul refers to Priscilla and Aquila, of the seven times Priscilla and Aquila are mentioned in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul always lists them together, suggesting that he viewed them as a ministry team and also a family unit.

When Griffith was 14, his mother abandoned the farm and moved the family to Louisville, where she opened a boarding house.

When he appeared at the London Palladium music hall in 1948, he " roused the Royal family to shrieks of laughter and was the first of many performers who have turned English variety into an American preserve.

When Elizabeth was 3 years old, the family moved to 142 Long Acre, where they were to live for 2 years, whilst two more children were born and her father moved up in the world, becoming not only the manager of a larger pawnbroker ’ s shop, but also a silversmith.

When Satie was four years old, his family moved to Paris, his father having been offered a translator's job in the capital.

When the Nazis invaded, the family fled, Singer leaving on a children's transport train with other Jewish children.

When she was 21, her brother Isaac married and took over the family home, so Evans and her father moved to Foleshill near Coventry.

When he died in 1138, the princes again aimed at checking royal power ; accordingly they did not elect Lothair's favoured heir, his son-in-law Henry the Proud of the Welf family, but Conrad III of the Hohenstaufen family, close relatives of the Salians, leading to over a century of strife between the two houses.

When a mob from Paris attacked the royal palace at Versailles in October 1789 seeking redress for their severe poverty, the royal family was forced to move to the Tuileries Palace in Paris.

When he had finished he led him and the mare to the porch.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When several minutes had passed and Curt hadn't emerged from the livery stable, Brenner reentered the hotel and faced Summers across the counter.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.

When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.

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.

When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.

When the hay wagon had gone, and an interval passed, a huckster's cart might turn the corner.

When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??

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 May came the Caravan had already crossed the Equator.

When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.

When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.