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He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.
Early accounts served mainly to assist the memory of the businessperson and the audience for the account was the proprietor or record keeper alone.
Her brothers were Aeetes, the keeper of the Golden Fleece and Perses, and her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur.
He was the keeper of the divine powers called Me, the gifts of civilization.
Ramsey gave the odd chance to Chelsea keeper Peter Bonetti, Everton's Gordon West and Manchester United's Alex Stepney, but when the big games came along, it was only Banks.
The game was still tightly contested as it entered its final 15 minutes, but then Peters swung over a curling cross from the left flank and Hurst, anticipating his clubmate's thinking, got in front of his marker to glance a near post header past the Argentine keeper.
Henry was a chorister in the Chapel Royal until his voice broke in 1673, when he became assistant to the organ-builder John Hingston, who held the post of keeper of wind instruments to the King.
Upon the death of Volkel in 1828, the brothers expected to be advanced to the first and second librarianships respectively, and were dissatisfied when the first place was given to Rommel, the keeper of the archives.
William of Wrotham was appointed " keeper of the galleys ", effectively John's chief admiral.
Bronstein was bitten on his bare foot, as the keeper had told him to take off his white shoes and socks, which the keeper stated could potentially excite the Komodo dragon as they were the same color as the white rats the zoo fed the dragon.
Philosopher Laozi was keeper of books in the earliest library in China, which belonged to the Imperial Zhou dynasty.
In 1259, he was appointed to the council of the king, who made him keeper of the great seal, chancellor of France, one of the great officers in the household of the king.
* June 7 – Sir George Heron, keeper of Redesdale, Sir John Forster's lieutenant, who was killed in the Raid of the Redeswire.
From 1903 to 1910 he was professor of zoology and geology at Victoria College, Stellenbosch, South Africa, and subsequently he became keeper of vertebrate paleontology at the South African Museum, Cape Town.
His father, a Schleswiger by birth, was at that time organist, and later became keeper, of the royal palace of Frederiksberg ; he was a very brisk and cheerful man.
He was becoming dissatisfied with the rivals for his collection, the South Kensington Museum, because of their " lack of a properly informed and person as keeper ," which was the same reason he had been dissatisfied with the Ashmolean.
" While the Keeper ’ s salary was not generous, the conditions of residence were very liberal ... the keeper could and should travel to secure new acquisitions ".
Tudor was most likely appointed keeper of the queen's household or wardrobe.
A warrener was an officer akin to a modern game keeper appointed to enforce the holder's right to maintain his warren.

was and treasures
At the opening of the Dusseldorf show, Thompson himself scarcely glanced at the treasures that he was seeing together for the last time.
He considered the war a blatant attempt to extend slavery and asked if the country was made up of " a people bent on conquest, on getting the golden treasures of Mexico into our hands, and of subjugating foreign peoples?
It was rich in treasures, but was destroyed by the Persians in the invasion of Xerxes in 480 BCE, and a second time by the Boeotians and remained in a ruined state. It was rebuilt by Hadrian.
His importance is proven once more by the grand funeral given to him by his people: his funeral at sea with many weapons and treasures shows he was a great soldier and an even greater leader to his people.
An Oppidum was a fortified warehouse, where a tribe's treasures were stored and guarded.
From October 1840 until January 1843 he was in Paris, busy with the treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale, eking out his scanty means by making collations for other scholars, and producing for the publisher, Firmin Didot, several editions of the Greek New Testament — one of them exhibiting the form of the text corresponding most closely to the Vulgate.
Cuauhtémoc was tortured by having his feet put to a fire, along with Tetlepanquetzal, the tlatoani of Tlacopán, and the Cihuacóatl ( counselor ) Tlacotzin, but even so they refused to divulge information about the treasures the Spanish coveted.
When Furune returned, he was inconsolably angered for having parted with the treasures, and slew him with the sword-swapping intrigue ( after inviting his brother to wade in a pool ( named Yamuya ), he exchanged his own wooden sword with his brother's real sword and commenced battle ).
He wired Carnarvon to come, and on 26 November 1922, with Carnarvon, Carnarvon's daughter, and others in attendance, Carter made the " tiny breach in the top left hand corner " of the doorway, and was able to peer in by the light of a candle and see that many of the gold and ebony treasures were still in place.
:" The King of England was struck with great astonishment, and wondered what alliance could mean, and, taking precautions for the future, frequently sent messengers into France for the purpose of recalling his son Richard ; who, pretending that he was peaceably inclined and ready to come to his father, made his way to Chinon, and, in spite of the person who had the custody thereof, carried off the greater part of his father's treasures, and fortified his castles in Poitou with the same, refusing to go to his father.
Both clergy and laymen were taxed for a quarter of the value of their property, the gold and silver treasures of the churches were confiscated, and money was raised from the scutage and the carucage taxes.
As soon as the Spanish began sending home the treasures they found in the New World, some of the treasure was lost in shipwrecks.
After Napoleon was defeated in 1815, many of the treasures he had amassed were gradually returned to their owners ( and many were not ).
After the house of Medici was extinguished, the art treasures remained in Florence, forming one of the first modern museums.
The Louvre in Paris was established in 1793, soon after the French Revolution when the royal treasures were declared for the people.
In 1658 Kronborg was besieged and captured by the Swedes who took many of its valuable art treasures as war booty.
In dire financial straits following the war, the Liechtenstein dynasty often resorted to selling family artistic treasures, including for instance the portrait " Ginevra de ' Benci " by Leonardo da Vinci, which was purchased by the National Gallery of Art of the United States in 1967.
In 1991, Loren received the Academy Honorary Award for her contributions to world cinema and was declared " one of the world cinema's treasures.

was and since
He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
I've helped him along ever since he was a youngster hanging around his brother's tackle shop.
Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;
In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.
For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.
Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;
In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.
`` The entire object of the press conference was to clarify the problem of the list, since many in the press were querying the U.N. about it.
Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.
He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.
Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.
To relieve the itch and sweat galls, the men got into the water whenever they could and since each sizable stream was generally the dividing line between the armies the pickets declared a private truce while the men went swimming.
That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.
Fred and Ralph qualified as executors and paid off what debts were currently due, and they were all current, since Papa was never one to allow bills to go unpaid.
My argument is that there was no Saxon Shore prior to that time even though the forts had been in existence since the time of Carausius.
Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.
The Manchester Guardian wondered how anyone in a railway carriage would have an opportunity to talk to Mr. Lewis, since it was well known that Mr. Lewis always did all of the talking.
Our comment was that this was `` featherbedding '' in its ultimate form and that sympathy for the railroad was misplaced since it had entered into such an agreement.

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