He was tall and dark-skinned, a half-breed, Wilson thought.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.

Serene ( Mrs. Wilson ), 23, was born in Budapest and raised in Manhattan.

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

In fact, he intimated clearly that that was the reason that Wilson had been sent here -- to make a larger contribution of dollar money.

Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

And after Wilson had talked to Mrs. Catt and to others, he was absolutely amazed.

The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.

Between the unsafe Towne field and the long roundabout back road haul that was necessary to gain access to Wilson flat, arrangements at the state capital were far from satisfactory.

The issue was settled on shore, Greene winning and Wilson remaining ashore, determined to catch the next fishing boat back to England.

Wilson, shackled and snarling, was thrown with the other prisoners and was soon joined by Green, McKee and McKinley.

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

Ebby Thacher, Wilson's former drinking buddy and a Grouper who followed the evangelical bent and sought out other alcoholics, presented himself to Wilson telling him he had " got religion " and was sober, and that Wilson could do the same if he set aside objections to religion and formed, instead, a personal idea of God, " another power " or " higher power ".

But he told Wilson to `` go ahead and try ''.

But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.

Wilson aspired, as he told alumni, " to transform thoughtless boys performing tasks into thinking men ".

" The 1998 German motion picture 23 told a dramatized version of his story ; Robert Anton Wilson appeared as himself.

When Labour won the 1997 general election, Powell told his wife, Pamela Wilson, " They have voted to break up the United Kingdom.

Thacher told Wilson about the Oxford Group, and through them Wilson became aware of Hazard's experience with Jung.

Years after the deaths of Scott, Wilson and Shackleton, Albert Armitage, the expedition's second-in-command, claimed that there had been a falling-out on the southern journey, and that Scott had told the ship's doctor that " if he does not go back sick he will go back in disgrace.

Carl Wilson told Michael Feeney Callan that he had personally " dug that one up from the vaults, but there was no objection Brian in our revisiting it.

By way of explaining Brian's variable input, Carl Wilson told Musician magazine in 1981 that his brother had become seriously addicted to cocaine during this period.

It seems likely that Gardner told his three subsequent initiatory lines that the book should be copied word for word, and Wiccans descended from Eleanor Bone, Patricia Crowther and Monique Wilson have widely believed that the book was of ancient provenance.

Wilson ( although married ) had seen a great deal of Mrs. Greenhow, and while with her may have told her about the plans followed by Major General Irvin McDowell, which may have been part of the intelligence Mrs. Greenhow got to Confederate forces under Major General Pierre Beauregard.

" However, Bundy's friends from Woodrow Wilson High School told Rule that he was " well known and well liked " there, " a medium-sized fish in a large pond.

One night, while opening up for Jackie Wilson, they did a spontaneous cover of Wilson's " Lonely Teardrops ", which caught the eye of a scout for RCA, who immediately told staff of the brothers.

After weeks of sequestered silence that confused Wilson and Ross, Ballard finally told her groupmates what had happened to her.

Although her on-stage appearance brought loud cheers from the crowd, Ballard told Wilson that she had no interest in continuing a career in music.

Adler reports that evidence pointed to early police suspect Frank Z. Wilson, and cites Hilda Erickson's letter, which states that Hill had told her he had been shot by her former fiance.

He testified that a senior administration official told him in June 2003 that Iraq war critic Joe Wilson ’ s wife ( later identified as Valerie Plame ), worked for the CIA.

In 1952 Wilson told a Senate subcommittee, " What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice-versa.

On August 24, 1976, Riperton told Flip Wilson, who was guest-hosting for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, that she had undergone a mastectomy due to breast cancer.

Seely had to resign ; Wilson canvassed Army opinion at a Staff College point-to-point and told French, who had initialled Seely's amendments, that he must resign as CIGS, which he did.

Wilson confessed to Derby that he did not get on with Haig or Robertson and told Robertson he wanted to return to commanding a corps.

Haig ’ s diary states that Painleve had told Lloyd George Wilson was no longer persona grata with the French government.

His brother Jemmy proposed getting him an Ulster seat, and thought that the prospect of Wilson as an MP would annoy Robertson ( who told Wilson that there was no army job for him in Britain ), but the Irish Unionist leader Carson thought an English seat more sensible.

The various sections of the song were edited together in a sort of musical collage, similar to The Beatles ' later " Strawberry Fields Forever " and " A Day in the Life " records, both inspired by the works of Brian Wilson ( according to Paul McCartney ).

Wilson sees language and, down to its very ingredients, words, as a sort of “ a social artifact ” ( Holmberg 44 ).

The story begins sometime in the 29th century on the planet Wilson ( orbiting Arcturus ) with a young man named Giraut and his romantic, swashbuckling friends, who are all members of the Nou Occitan culture and residents in the Quartier de Jovents, a sort of playground for teens and twenty-somethings who have not yet moved on to the more " grown-up " lifestyle of their parents.

After a week in intensive care, Wilson was put on an accelerated therapy program, but he still showed major difficulty in summoning words, a common form of aphasia following a trauma of this sort.

" In a 1988 Los Angeles Times article, the review noted that " Wilson and Maddock have improved considerably here .... Their construction is more deft, their dialogue is better, and they make Number Five come more alive ..." Rita Kempley of the Washington Post scored the film 6 / 10 saying, "... Kenneth Johnson pulls heartstrings with the best of them — or the worst, if you hate that sort of thing ... if you're a kid, or an adult with an Erector Set, you might just enjoy this summer-weight caper.

" Wilson nonetheless felt the evidence pointed to the fireballs being real, artificial, and those responsible having some sort of agenda.

A group known as the African Blood Brotherhood, a socialist group with a large number of Caribbean émigrés in its leadership, organized around 1920 to demand the same sort of self-determination for black Americans that the Wilson administration was promising to Eastern European peoples at the Versailles conference in the aftermath of World War I.

According to Wilson, " If America is not to have free enterprise, he can have freedom of no sort whatever.

Wilson wrote that Sokō thought of the samurai as a " sort of Warrior-Sage " and focused his writings on the perfection of this " transcendent ideal ".

It seems to be sort of a cross between Jules Feiffer and Gahan Wilson, if that can be imagined.