![]() A gifted humorist, poet, and storyteller, Morley wrote over one hundred novels and collections of essays and poetry in his lifetime. In 1920, Morley moved one final time to Roslyn Estates in Nassau County, Long Island, commuting to the city for work as an editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. After moving his family to Philadelphia, Morley worked as an editor for Ladies’ Home Journal and then as a reporter for the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. After three years, he moved to New York, found work as a publicist and publisher’s reader at Doubleday, and married Helen Booth Fairchild. While in England, he published The Eighth Sin (1912), a volume of poems. Upon graduating as valedictorian in 1910, he went to Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship to study modern history. In 1900, Christopher moved with his parents to Baltimore, returning to Pennsylvania in 1906 to attend Haverford College. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, he was the son of mathematics professor Frank Morley and violinist Lillian Janet Bird. Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American journalist, poet, and novelist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() On summary judgment, Greer argues that the debt is nondischargeable as a matter of law based on the preclusionary effect to be given to the factual and legal conclusions in the state court judgment.Īfter review of the evidence, this Court concludes that the state court judgment is not entitled to preclusive effect. ![]() Plaintiff Robert Greer (" Greer") seeks a determination that a state court judgment debt totaling $607,182.40 in combined compensatory and punitive damages owed by Debtor Gerald Benjamin Bruce (" Debtor") is excepted from discharge. This matter is before this Court on Creditor/Plaintiff Robert Greer's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and Defendant Gerald Benjamin Bruce's Motion in Objection to Robert Greer's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment. This is a core proceeding pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 157(a) and 1334, and the standing General Order of Reference in this District. ![]() This Court has jurisdiction over this matter pursuant to 28 U.S.C. MEMORANDUM DECISION DENYING PLAINTIFF ROBERT GREER'S MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT ![]() ![]() ![]() Pull Up a Chair will provide a reader with the same.", Scully opens each broadcast by wishing listeners, A very pleasant good afternoon. ![]() Curt Smith-to USA Today, The voice of authority on baseball broadcasting-is the ideal man to write it. In 2000, the American Sportscasters Association named Scully the Sportscaster of the 20th Century.The first biography of Vin Scully is long overdue. He has made every sportscasting Hall of Fame received a Lifetime Emmy Achievement award and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and been voted most memorableL.A. His instantly recognizable voice has described players from Duke Snider to Orel Hershiser to Manny Ramirez, with hundreds in between.At one time or another, Scully has aired NBC Television's Game of the Week, twelve All-Star Games, eighteen no-hitters, twenty-five World Series, and network football, golf, and tennis. Recruited and mentored by the legendary Red Barber, the New York-born Scully moved with the Dodgers to Los Angeles in early 1958. ![]() ![]() Nearly sixty years later he still invites a listener to pull up a chair, completing a record fifty-ninth consecutive year of play-by-play. "item_description" : "In 1950, Vin Scully broadcast his first major league baseball game for the then-Brooklyn Dodgers. ![]() ![]() Last month, an explosion in a cafe in St Petersburg killed a popular military blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky. Authorities alleged Ukraine was behind the blast. ![]() In August 2022, a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow killed Daria Dugina, the daughter of an influential Russian political theorist often referred to as “Putin’s brain”. The scene of the explosion (Russian Investigative Committee/AP) It is the third explosion involving prominent pro-Kremlin figures since the start of the war in Ukraine. The incident involving Zakhar Prilepin, a well-known nationalist writer and a supporter of what the Kremlin calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine, happened in Nizhny Novgorod, about 250 miles east of Moscow. ![]() The car of a prominent pro-Kremlin novelist has exploded in Russia, injuring him and killing his driver, state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials. ![]() ![]() Young author Mary Shelley leads a band of Romantic outlaws-among them, her lovers Percy and Lord Byron-against all manner of supernatural threats and monsters…including Frankenstein author Shelley’s own iconic Creature. ![]() Written/executive produced by Aguirre-Sacasa, DeWille and Williams, The Shelley Society is described as a Victorian X-Files. The Shelley Society and The Brides are the first two projects to come out of the new mega overall deal Aguirre-Sacasa signed at Warner Bros. It marks another collaboration with Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Prods., which produces Riverdale, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Katy Keene. HBO Max has ordered a pilot and an additional script for The Shelley Society, a mash-up of gothic horror and teen romance featuring young Mary Shelley, which Aguirre-Sacasa co-created with Riverdale writers Tessa Leigh Williams and James DeWille.Īdditionally, I hear Aguirre-Sacasa has a spec script, The Brides, a reimagining of the Brides of Dracula, about to hit the premium/streaming marketplace. ![]() ![]() ![]() But, it will only be of minimal impact compared to the impact they can have on their own glass when they work to fill it themselves. “But, can’t I help fill up my partner’s half?” …You might ask. You are two halves that need to be filled up separately in order for the whole to be fulfilled. You and your lover are two separate entities-you are not one entity. It will be up to your lover to fill theirs if the overall percentage is to be raised. The liquid will simply overflow and puddle. If you only fill your glass and your lover doesn’t fill theirs, then only 50% of the total volume will be filled.Įven if you keep pouring more and more liquid into your glass, it will be to no avail. In order for the glasses to be 100% full, they both need to be filled up all of the way, but only you can fill your cup and only your lover can fill theirs. Let’s say one glass is yours and the other is your lover’s. ![]() ![]() Imagine two glasses that are next to each other. This is one of the key mindsets to understand in order to maintain a healthy relationship. You can undoubtedly give your 100%, but it’s only ever going to add up to 50% as a part of the whole relationship. This isn’t to say that the most effort you can ever put forth is 50%. The fact that it’s a relationship implies that there are two and 100% of one-out-of-two is 50%. The most you can ever contribute to the success of a relationship is 50%. ![]() Introduction: How To Create the Perfect Relationships-Starting With The One You Have With Yourself Click Here to jump right to our list of Quotes from The Power of Now! ![]() ![]() There are some funny-scary moments: the fake theatre audience that they make out of broomsticks, old overcoats, and painted faces on paper bags, who are accidentally brought to life, and after the performance, quite reasonably really, want to be put up for the night in a 'decent hotel'. ![]() ![]() It turns out to not be a good idea to just wish to be rich - the ring has its own economical way of balancing things out and determining precisely what it costs you to get rich. When they finally learn that the ring grants wishes, their wishes are almost always not quite put perfectly, and get them into more trouble than they bargain for. The enchanted castle of the title is a country estate in the West Country seen through the eyes of three children, Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathy, who discover it. Excitement mounts as they slowly unlock its powers, and get advice from the living statues in the garden on how to use the ring and things more strange then their wildest dreams come to life. It gives them wild adventures with invisibility, crooks who rob stately homes, and a giant dinosaur in the garden. The sleeping princess they awaken with a kiss in the enchanted garden may be playing some tricks on them - to her all the magic is pure imagination - but soon they stumble across a magical ring that has belonged to the house for many centuries. ![]() A hundred years ago three schoolchildren discovered a secret way into a very grand old English stately home whose family is down on its luck. ![]() ![]() To serve one would be to betray the other.’ ‘The two competing branches of my family – to which, I felt, I owed an equal duty – could not be reconciled. The world building draws a lot from the Eastern cultures of our world, particularly Chinese elements when it comes to the Sienese empire, and I appreciated the way the familiar and the fantastical blended together to create this compelling story of colonies, free choice, and those caught between it all. Wen Alder, son of a Sienese merchant and a Nayeni woman, has been preparing his entire life to take the Imperial Exams, for the chance to rank highly and learn the canon of magic. The Hand of the Sun King is set in a fantasy world in which the great Sienese Empire is slowly conquering its neighbours, and the eternal Emperor takes the magic of the conquered lands and incorporates it into his canon, which he allows his Hands and Voices -trained mages- to tap into. ![]() Thank you to NetGalley and Gollancz for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. But my search for freedom will entangle me in a war between the gods themselves. a magical path, filled with secrets, unbound by empire or resistance, which could shake my world to its very foundation. ![]() I can choose between them – between protecting my family, or protecting my people – or I can search out a better path. That of my mother’s family, who reject the oppressive Empire and embrace the resistance. ![]() ![]() My name is Foolish Cur.Īll my life, I have been torn between two legacies: that of my father, whose roots trace back to the right hand of the Emperor. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of her white beau, Violet escapes. ![]() Before anyone can find the body or finger her as the killer, she decides to run. But with the color of Violet’s skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. ![]() Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she’s ever been in her life. It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. but can they escape the secrets they left behind? Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by New York Times * NPR * New York Post * Washington Post * Buzzfeed * South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Library Journal * CrimeReadsįrom the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country. ![]() ![]() ![]() When a freewheeling new girl joins his class, Sam knows he has found someone who can help him solve the mystery of his own identity. Sam has to find out who he really is, but to investigate the contents of that box he needs a friend, a friend who can read and who will keep his secret. But Sam has the same intuitive skill with wood that Mack has and he still has Night Cat-the same cat-from his memory of that terrifying night. Sam is overwhelmed with fear-fear that Mack may not be his grandfather and that the stories he has heard of his parents may not be true. ![]() Sam knows that he is that little boy he remembers the sweater the boy is wearing, and with that memory come a flood of other scary memories-a dark house with the number 11, unhappy children, an angry woman, loud shouting, his cat cringing under the table, and someone pulling him from icy water and bringing him here, to the place where he and his grandfather live above the woodworking shop. At last he climbs out onto the roof and into the attic above his grandfather Mack's bedroom, and in an intriguing metal box finds a newspaper photo of himself.Īlmost a non-reader, Sam sounds out the headline- MISSING and below the photo of a toddler, the name-SAM BELL. ![]() It's the night before his eleventh birthday, and Sam McKenzie has searched all the usual places to find where his gifts are hidden. ![]() |