George ( his last name is never revealed ) is a stereotypical English valet who enters Poirot ’ s employment in 1923 and does not leave his side until the 1970s, shortly before Poirot ’ s death.

* 1923 – The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.

Wiles is the son of Maurice Frank Wiles ( 1923 – 2005 ), the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Patricia Wiles ( née Mowll ).

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

Today the altarpiece is dismantled and the predellas depicting the two final scenes, Entombment and Resurrection were sold to Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in 1923 and 1930.

One of Nimzowitsch's most famous games is his celebrated immortal zugzwang game against Sämisch at Copenhagen 1923.

Arthur Robert Jensen ( born August 24, 1923 ) is a Professor Emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Unlike many power hitters, Ruth also hit for a high batting average: his. 342 lifetime average is the tenth highest in baseball history, and in one season ( 1923 ) he batted. 393, a Yankee record.

" The ' most comprehensive explanation ' of the origin of the Balfour Declaration the Foreign Office was able to provide was contained in a small ' unofficial ' note of Jan 1923 affirming that: little is known of how the policy represented by the Declaration was first given form.

While he continued to be prolific throughout the 1930s and 1940s, he is probably best known for his 1956 film The Ten Commandments ( which is very different from his 1923 film of the same title ).

In 1923, he underwent two operations to remove his cataracts: the paintings done while the cataracts affected his vision have a general reddish tone, which is characteristic of the vision of cataract victims.

Van Doesburg became a friend of Schwitters, and together they organized the so-called Dutch Dada campaign in 1923, where Van Doesburg promoted a leaflet about Dada ( entitled What is Dada?

The Ellensburg Rodeo has been a town tradition since 1923, and is the largest rodeo in Washington state.

The Hetch Hetchy dam was finished in 1923 and is still in operation, but the Sierra Club still wants to tear it down.

* 1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas

In honor of this victory, the date is celebrated from 1923 onward as " Red Army Day "; it is renamed Defender of the Fatherland Day after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and is colloquially known as " Men's Day ".

Freeman John Dyson FRS ( born December 15, 1923 ) is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering.

Felix Salten's Bambi ( 1923 ) is a Bildungsroman — a story of a protagonist's coming-of-age — cast in the form of a fable.

Men Like Gods ( 1923 ) is also a utopian novel.

All works published before 1923 are public domain in the U. S. However, there is some disagreement over who exactly owns or owned the copyrights and whether the copyrights apply to the majority of Lovecraft's works published post-1923.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

After all, Shelley is no `` orthodox '' or Hellenic Platonist, and even his `` romantic '' Platonism can be distinguished from that of his contemporaries.

The third Act of Faust 2, is a formal celebration of the union between the Germanic and the classic, between the spirit of Euripides and that of romantic drama.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

And there is something so wonderfully romantic about it all.

A romantic is one who thinks the world is divinely inspired and all he has to do is find the right key, and then divine justice and altruism will appear.

Incidentally, one cannot miss the significance of this gesture, for Dickens reintroduces it associatively in Pip's mind at another moral and psychological crisis -- his painful recognition, in a talk with Herbert Pocket, that his hopeless attachment to Estella is as self-destructive as it is romantic.

Although he is not graced with the subtleties of romantic technique, that's not what an ex-prize fighter is supposed to have, anyway.

`` Donnybrook '' is no `` Brigadoon '', but it does have some very nice romantic background touches and some excellent dancing.

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

The 1957 romantic drama film An Affair to Remember involves a couple who plan to meet atop the Empire State Building, a rendezvous that is averted by an automobile accident.

Altdorfer's figures are invariably the complement of his romantic landscapes ; for them he borrowed Albrecht Dürer's inventive iconography, but the panoramic setting is personal and has nothing to do with the fantasy landscapes of the Netherlands A Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders ( 1526 ) set outside an Italianate skyscraper of a palace shows his interest in architecture.

Her husband Casimir is known for his romantic affairs: after Aldona's death he married three more times.

Thus Dorothy Tutin as Desiree, the touring thesp eventually reunited with her quondam lover, is not the melting romantic of previous productions but a working mother with the sharpness of a hat-pin.

Affectional orientation ( or romantic orientation ) is used both alternatively and side-by-side with sexual orientation.

This is an important concept amongst the asexual community where it is often referred to as romantic orientation and the term affectional orientation is rarely used.

Taking from the fact that amongst this community this is known as the romantic orientation, the prefixes of homo -, hetero -, bi -, pan -, poly -, demi-and a-have been used to form terms such as heteroromantic, biromantic and so on.

One who lacks a romantic orientation, or is incapable of feeling romantic attraction, is known as aromantic.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

`` If we cannot tell evil, horror, and insanity from nonsense, what is the future of humor and comedy ''??

In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ''.

This is the strongest act to hit the area in a long while -- a well integrated, fast moving outfit specializing in skits, vocals, comedy and instrumentals all of it distinctly displaying the pro touch.

One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.

It is danced by some thirty-five men and no women, and it contains everything in the books -- lusty comedy, gregarious cavorting, and tricks that only madmen or Russians would attempt to make the human body perform.

In comedy, several players are emerging in the image of the very popular Rouiched which is illustrated in several films such as Hassan Terro or Hassan Taxi, or actor Hadj Abderrahmane better known under the pseudonym of the Inspector Tahar in 1973 comedy The Holiday of The Inspector Tahar directed by Musa Haddad.

The most accomplished comedy is Carnaval fi dechra directed by Mohamed Oukassi, and starting Athman Ariouet.

Sólo con tu pareja was a sex comedy about a womanizing businessman ( played by Daniel Giménez Cacho ), who after spurning an attractive nurse, is fooled into believing he's contracted HIV.

He is also a prominent character in Aristophanes ' comedy the Thesmophoriazusae.

* 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

Army of Darkness, also titled Bruce Campbell vs Army of Darkness, Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness or just Evil Dead III, is a 1992 American comedy horror film directed by Sam Raimi.

" And the song " New York, New York " ( by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the 1940s musical comedy and film, " On the Town ") explains that " The Bronx is up and the Battery's down.

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr.

Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.

His other major film from this period is the slasher comedy Murder a la Mod.

The " shock ending " finale is effective even while it upholds horror-film convention, its suspense sequences are buttressed by teen comedy tropes, and its use of split-screen, split-diopter and slow motion shots tell the story visually rather than through dialogue.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American action / comedy film about a Valley girl cheerleader named Buffy ( Kristy Swanson ) who learns that it is her fate to hunt vampires.

* Crackerjack – a 2002 Australian comedy film about a wisecracking layabout who joins a lawn bowls club in order to be allowed to use a free parking spot but is forced to play bowls with the much older crowd when the club enters financial difficulty.

The final episode of this series, " Goodbyeee ", is known for being extraordinarily poignant for a comedy – especially the final scene, which sees the main characters ( Blackadder, Baldrick, George, and Darling ) finally going " over the top " and charging off into the fog and smoke of no man's land to presumably die.