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Hervey was born Beulah Irene Herwick on July 11, 1909 in Venice, Los Angeles, California. Her father was a sign painter, and her mother a Christian Science practitioner whose pupil was English actress Emma Dunn. Dunn agreed to become Hervey's acting coach during her childhood. Hervey attended Venice High School in Venice, Los Angeles, where she appeared in school theater productions. | wikipedia |
While very few standing buildings remain of the original Elkhorn, a number of cabins have been reoccupied and refurbished. In 2010, there were 10 inhabitants. | wikipedia |
What that question is, I in my story am not going to tell you. | bookcorpus |
Most of the trailers were small and looked as if they had seen better days - around the time cheers first went on the air, perhaps. | bookcorpus |
According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Beach has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps. | wikipedia |
Adolphus got it off you and Dr. Warthrop tore it to pieces with his bare Hands-As if he were angry at it, as if it had attacked him. | bookcorpus |
And if you say 'That's classified,' I'm coming over this table at you. | bookcorpus |
Conservatives liked her because she wore the veil and her father, Mohammad, is a respected conservative academic and writer. | 1billion |
On Tuesday, the Catholic Church in Ireland released more details about why Cardinal Brady asked two victims, aged 10 and 14, to sign secrecy agreements. | 1billion |
Some Republicans believe that Trump obstructing the Mueller investigation might give the appearance of corruption in this administration? | nyt_comments |
The South Atlantic environment for formation of subtropical cyclones has both stronger vertical wind shear and lower sea surface temperatures, yet subtropical cyclogenesis is regularly observed in the open ocean in the South Atlantic. A second mechanism for formation has been diagnosed for South Atlantic subtropical cyclones: lee cyclogenesis in the region of the Brazil Current. | wikipedia |
I am totally shocked that Donald Trump eats poorly. Really. Does he at least insist on organic Heinz? Had the cow who is now the steak been grass-fed---grass feeding matters to those who eat meat and feel really really bad about eating meat that the cow lived a good or at least less bloated and gassy life? I like Bruni. I think he's charming, smart, thoughtful. And I agree: on food, who cares? President Trump will probably not shock us all and ask us to consider the lobster or the cow or the pig or the chicken or any living, breathing non-human animal's welfare. Our president eats such terrible food in such a terrible way and that we---indeed, right now, I should be reading my students' essays and finishing Americanah---expend so much effort deriding such silliness speaks loudly about how normalizing the president, what so many of us feared would happen, is inevitable. Great. | nyt_comments |
"You are qualified for and hereby offered the position of Clerk/Typist starting immediately. | bookcorpus |
Nixon/Agnew, Bush/Cheney, Trump/Pence - Republican/Republican/Republican - War/War/War? - Defeat/Defeat/Catastrophe? | nyt_comments |
I spent years in Al-Anon learning how to deal with the disorienting effects of living with someone whose lust for an addictive substance bred irrational behavior that consumed the efforts and psyches of everyone close to him. I don't think our President's irrational behavior has been exacerbated by addiction but I do believe that his behaviors are consuming us as a nation in ways similar to the effect of the addict's behavior on his.her family. In my 12-step program, I learned that I could only change myself, not the person that I was reacting to. Is it time for America to get its own 12-step program to weather the onslaught of irrationality that is consuming our collective efforts and psyches, to change ourselves as a nation to resist the chaos that is overtaking our existence? | nyt_comments |
I quietly let myself out the door and glanced at my car. | bookcorpus |
Spears has come under fire in recent months for her hard-partying ways, erratic behavior and alleged poor treatment of family and friends. | 1billion |
Yeah, yeah, we'll get to the diplomacy thing right after we cut the state department by 1/3. | nyt_comments |
"We are very careful to tell patients upfront,' Be sure you can make your payments,'" said Dr. Richard J. Mercurio, a dentist in Lincroft, N.J. He arranges patient financing through the CareCredit unit of G.E., the leader in consumer medical financing. | 1billion |
First Battle of Winchester, on May 25, 1862 of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign during the American Civil War | wikipedia |
Indonesia won its independence in 1945–49. As a consequence of ethnic and religious tensions, and President Sukarno making Indonesia a unitary state, Ambon was the scene of a revolt against the Indonesian government, resulting in the rebellion of the Republic of South Maluku in 1950. | wikipedia |
After that, the information was sent to military units and intelligence officials in Afghanistan and Pakistan for use in possible strikes, the paper said. | 1billion |
In the following year, he was called to the bar in Ghana before going on to Oxford University graduating from Exeter College, in 1964. | wikipedia |
Squeezing her eyes shut, Helen held perfectly still, fearing any movement would start the tornado again. | bookcorpus |
In 1985, GEM used a proportionally-sized "scroll box" thumb, but otherwise operated identically to the Macintosh. The net result was a modern scrollbar that looked and felt no different from the scrollbar in Windows today. GEM allowed the mouse to be moved far away from the scrollbar after clicking and holding, to reduce hand-eye coordination problems. AmigaOS followed later in the year, also with proportionally-sized scroll boxes. | wikipedia |
"makes it harder for them to show value," Loris said. | bookcorpus |
Trump did not think very hard before he made the decision to withdraw from the TPP, obviously. | nyt_comments |
PC Karen Howie, 33, of Tayside Police, appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court in connection with the allegations. | 1billion |
She could see by the light of a nearby Furylamp, and so she ripped the hood from the woman's head. | bookcorpus |
The governors of two states, Marie Bashir in New South Wales and Penelope Wensley in Queensland have not been invited to join any of the clubs. | 1billion |
Atlantic cod act as intermediate, paratenic, or definitive hosts to a large number of parasite species: 107 taxa listed by Hemmingsen and MacKenzie (2001) and seven new records by Perdiguero-Alonso et al. (2008). The predominant groups of cod parasites in the northeast Atlantic were trematodes (19 species) and nematodes (13 species), including larval anisakids, which comprised 58.2% of the total number of individuals. Parasites of Atlantic cod include copepods, digeneans, monogeneans, acanthocephalans, cestodes, nematodes, myxozoans, and protozoans. | wikipedia |
Soon she was thrashing against him, desperate for that something, willing to kill everyone in this building if she didn't get it. | bookcorpus |
Whenever you feel afraid, just hold your head erect and whistle you know how to whistle, dont you, Steve? | bookcorpus |
She was about to throw it when shimmer released a sharp image of the blast taking not only the Doon, but the woman as well. | bookcorpus |
Washington's new envoy to Beijing, Jon Huntsman Jr., told reporters Obama "is going to be visiting in the middle of November," but he did not give specific dates. | 1billion |
Northern Rock's troubles began in the summer when it became Britain's biggest casualty in the global credit freeze. | 1billion |
When time finally ran out during his consolation semifinals match against Dustin Davidson, the scoreboard showed a 3-1 victory for Carter. | 1billion |
These same strategies, experiences and tactics are now being employed by Trump in his foreign policy and dealings with international leaders. No one should be surprised by this. | nyt_comments |
Although you'll see many local officials advising people to take transit if they must travel, there's still reason to be cautious. | 1billion |
Jeremy, please tell me what I have done to deserve all of this. | bookcorpus |
Kraft chief executive, Irene Rosenfeld, has told colleagues that the American company has no need to "bid against itself" and that, given Cadbury's pre-bid share price, the offer is a fair one. | 1billion |
Yes, the Boston Red Sox and Yankees pay well, if you can lob a fastball in the zone. Most cannot. The same can be said for Microsoft, Google, Apple et al. The pay well: But most people will not have the talent, which is why they pay the big bucks. | nyt_comments |
He hopped twice, ran two steps, walked a stride and stopped, still holding onto Helens hand and reciting nursery rhymes as they walked up the hill toward the front porch. | bookcorpus |
There were 702 households, out of which 35.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.8% were married couples living together, 9.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.1% were non-families. 24.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.02. | wikipedia |
While completing graduate work at Harvard in 1988, Sullivan published an attack in Spy magazine on Rhodes Scholars, "All Rhodes Lead Nowhere in Particular," which dismissed recipients of the scholarship as "hustling apple-polisher[s]"; "high-profile losers"; "the very best of the second-rate"; and "misfits by the very virtue of their bland, eugenic perfection." "[T]he sad truth is that as a rule," Sullivan wrote, "Rhodies possess none of the charms of the aristocracy and all of the debilities: fecklessness, excessive concern that peasants be aware of their achievement, and a certain hemophilia of character." Author Thomas Schaeper notes that "[i]ronically, Sullivan had first gone to the United States on a Harkness Fellowship, one of many scholarships spawned in emulation of the Rhodes program." | wikipedia |
He closed his eyes and within less than a minute several men began running in Diallo's direction. | bookcorpus |
One reason for Mr. Paulson's rapid reconsideration was that global financial markets have been going downhill faster than anyone had seen before. | 1billion |
The Spy Phones, as the family called them, looked like ordinary tan rotary phones, but the standing orders were clear: Those are Mommy's phones. | 1billion |
New York's defense did the rest as Kawika Mitchell intercepted Trent Edwards and returned it 20 yards for the go-ahead score early in the fourth quarter. | 1billion |
Sir David said: "JJB has been through a lot in the past year but we have now reached a stage where we have the funding, the strategy and the team to plan for the future." | 1billion |
As I have come to save him, my counterparts will come to kill Himif they learn he has escaped his scheduled death at 3:15 this Sunday afternoon. | bookcorpus |
But $ 1.25 million included in the $ 787 billion stimulus package enacted last month resuscitated those jobs. | 1billion |
(I would, however, think it would be safe to assume that a sensible person would have scooted over without further prompting. | bookcorpus |
We don't have to agree with what they say, but peace rests on mutual understanding of one another's perspective, however puzzling and difficult that may be. And it's what the participants of this protest proudly embodied when they decided to protest peacefully. | nyt_comments |
Misty's words acted like a bucket of cold water, and Lysander was silently aghast at how much he had allowed his disguise to slip. | bookcorpus |
Bell, the Warwickshire batsmen, was dropped after the Test defeat in Jamaica three months ago but will provide an extra batting option at the seamer-friendly Riverside this week. | 1billion |
No, Mr. Trump — a true attack on America is what happened on, say, Sept. 11, 2001. Remember that one? Thousands of people lost their lives. | nyt_comments |
In the time I was held at the fortress, I was never given adequate access to the location of the mainframe area, but was able to discern a rather disconcerting fact ..." he raised the disc so all in the briefing room could see it, "...that this device is part of Binary code, useless on its own but combined with the other half, it is more important to Olympus than any known weapon in their arsenal." | bookcorpus |
'The loss of Mary must include the loss of Crawford and of Fanny.' | bookcorpus |
The Restaurant at Meadowood, in the Napa Valley, just received two coveted stars from the "Michelin Guide," and Jean Marie Aldinger couldn't be more pleased. | 1billion |
They should remake/reimagine 'The Stuff.' The premise is good, for B-Movie quality, that is, and was originally well executed in the film. Then all of a sudden, the director and actors remembered they were making a silly B-Movie and acted accordingly. But, even with the worst B-Movies, there is always a level of consistency, such as the similar 'The Blob.' The original 'Blob' showed us a creature (mass) that consumed victims and grew bigger. The horrid 1988 remake showed us a (now) pink blob and gave a more realistic reasoning behind why it consumed humans. (Pink?) 'Stuff' shows us some yogurt that pumps from the ground, sometimes moves on its own, sometimes doesn't. Sometimes it leaves its host and returns, sometimes it leaves killing the host. Sometimes it's allergic to fire (a cheap reverse rip off of the freezing cold enemy of the Blob) sometimes it rolls in it. Sometimes it needs to be refrigerated, sometimes it's fine warm. There was no consistency. I am aware it is a campy B-Movie, but like I said in the beginning, there was hope here for a decent sci-fi thriller so remake it with a better script. It was if the creators had "special effects" to spare and screamed 'Look at what I can do!' (Said in best Stuart voice from MadTV reruns.) Believe it or not, the main character (not that boy oh, God, I hope this was his first/last film) 'Mo' Rutherford (Michael Moriarty) was actually funny enough to get through to the end. I first watched this film when I was 8 or 9 and it freaked me out beyond terror. Not that I would recommend it to the under 10 crowd, but you'd really have to have that mentality to be scared of
'The Stuff.' | imdb |
These fine citizens of San Francisco are welcoming them with open arms. | bookcorpus |
Since the election a majority of the violence (pepper spraying opposing demonstrators, setting fires, looting stores, and fighting police) has come from people who don't support our system or its result. You could include some Liberal Elites in that cohort by their own admissions. | nyt_comments |
All coat types should have dense and coarse double coats that are harsh to the touch and weatherproof. | wikipedia |
Really this is brought on by Trump - nominating & putting in position for serious review someone who has probably done well by our country in his job - but is completely unqualified & obviously has issues with his performance upon more serious scrutiny. | nyt_comments |
I this man is scared to death because he realizes he is in over his head. | nyt_comments |
You saved me some bullets, as well as saving me from being a murderer, though I got paid just the same. | bookcorpus |
The awards recognize organizations and individuals that have demonstrated excellence in their use of Brainshark to deliver compelling sales, marketing, training and corporate communications. | 1billion |
Who is this clear-eyed, discerning, wise leader of whom you speak? The one I am familiar with is only concerned about money (his) and his own fragile ego. Every day brings new lows of petty, vindictive, foolish behavior. | nyt_comments |
I had nothing but admiration for the real-life group of British soldiers who had held out against a huge Zulu force at Rorke's Drift under the command of Lieutenant John Chard. | 1billion |
I knew I should have insisted he go to Clementia for training, but he kept resisting the idea and I just didn't have the heart to force him. | bookcorpus |
The Walkway was a narrow grate, suspended above floor crowded with pipes and cables and a small trickle of water that would have made for slow and miserable walking. | bookcorpus |
How could the FBI not have an effect on the race when one of the candidates was the target of a criminal investigation, and where her husband and Loretta Lynch disqualified the DOJ from its proper role? | nyt_comments |
Her thoughts made her voice lose its force and the superior tones she affected whenever she was forced to deal with her younger Sibling. | bookcorpus |
Indeed, the whaling industry seems to enjoy a protected status, mainly as a tradition to be defended against foreign interference. | 1billion |
But the image in his mind, of her getting up slowly and looking sadly, tenderly, at his back, was more real than what his mortal eyes would see. | bookcorpus |
She removes the velvet rope while politely stating, maybe I can assist you. | bookcorpus |
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the film on Blu-ray on April 2, 2013. The Blu-ray includes the Theatrical and Extended cuts as well as all of the bonus features found on the 2-Disc DVD. | wikipedia |
Your mistake in trusting me, Aidan said, and Bailey shook her head in amusement. | bookcorpus |
In my view Bannon is the worst kind of human, but he is not stupid. | nyt_comments |
Chuck Schumer got six years of CHIP, ensuring health care for poor children, That is no small thing. He can shut the government down in February, and get DACA then. He is much more clever then you think. Just watch! | nyt_comments |
It was the worst helicopter crash since an August 2007 incident in which a Blackhawk transport chopper crashed in northern Iraq, killing 14 US military personnel. | 1billion |
As it happens, the 20 year-old from Lambeth never looked out of place on the left of Arsenal's defence. | 1billion |
"I don't want to make any official announcements, but I will say that we definitely have plans for collaborating in the future, and we'll see what happens," Crow told music website Spinner.com. | 1billion |
After a half an hour of Warm-Ups, the physical therapists went to work; heat, exercise and ice. | bookcorpus |
Iowa is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band Slipknot. Released by Roadrunner Records on August 28, 2001, it was produced by Ross Robinson and Slipknot. The title derives from the band's home state, Iowa, which members have stated is one of their greatest sources of inspiration. With much anticipation for the album following the success of their 1999 self-titled debut, pressures on the band were high. Their relationships with each other suffered and this was later described as the darkest time of their career. It was also the first full album to feature guitarist Jim Root after only appearing on two songs from their previous album. Despite troubles within the band and with Iowas development, Slipknot promoted it for almost a year. | wikipedia |
Thus Calleva Atrebatum ("Calleva of the Atrebates") was an Iron Age settlement, as capital of the Atrebates tribe. It became a walled town in the Roman province of Britannia. | wikipedia |
The forest he traveled through Wasnt as thickly packed, but it did have more animal variety by tracks around the water. | bookcorpus |
Medical research is always on the quest to discover what kills us. | bookcorpus |
Lowering my gaze I sunk my teeth into my lower lip, questioning how I could possibly return to Arrapha. | bookcorpus |
So, in our customary American fashion, we have to work on mitigating this perversion, and perfecting Our Union a bit further: So, can we require our presidential prospects to be about as proficient in American Government and Civics as its asks its prospective citizens to be on their citizenship test? | nyt_comments |
At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Durrell's mother and siblings returned to England, while he and Nancy remained on Corfu. In 1940, he and Nancy had a daughter, Penelope Berengaria. After the fall of Greece, Lawrence and Nancy escaped via Crete to Alexandria, Egypt. The marriage was already under strain, and they separated in 1942. Nancy took the baby Penelope with her to Jerusalem. | wikipedia |
The Wall In Concert (theatrical) - While based on a figment of a main character's imagination, the concerts in the tour for the Pink Floyd album The Wall featured a real wall of giant cardboard bricks between the band and the audience which was constructed, completed, spoliated and finally destroyed during the course of each show. | wikipedia |
Thus a Sikh who had nothing to complain about in his native land became one of the 60,000 people who, according to Migration Watch UK, enter this country every year on a visitor's visa and then disappear. | 1billion |
"Scripting language" has two apparently different, but in fact similar, meanings. In a traditional sense, scripting languages are designed to automate frequently used tasks that usually involve calling or passing commands to external programs. Many complex application programs provide built-in languages that let users automate tasks. Those that are interpretive are often called scripting languages. | wikipedia |
It was a poor thing indeed, and the meager throng that had gathered to watch filled but half the seats. | bookcorpus |
By the time Id brushed my hair and dressed Id Half-Convinced myself nothing had really happened at all, but the first glance at my grandmother shot me back in the opposite direction. | bookcorpus |
In August 2006, Perelman was offered the Fields Medal for "his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow", but he declined the award, stating: "I'm not interested in money or fame; I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo." On 22 December 2006, the scientific journal Science recognized Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture as the scientific "Breakthrough of the Year", the first such recognition in the area of mathematics. | wikipedia |
A moment later, melody emerged from the kitchen door with her Rucksack. | bookcorpus |
The VLC port for Windows 8 and Windows 10 is backed by a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to add support for a new GUI based on Microsoft's Metro design language, that will run on the Windows Runtime. All the existing features including video filters, subtitle support, and an equalizer are present in Windows 8. A beta version of VLC for Windows 8 was released to the Microsoft Store on March 13, 2014. A universal app was created for Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Phone 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile. | wikipedia |