Dallying with the Democrats won't dismay his voters one bit.
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It's easy to see why the commission might be dallying on this.
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At 9:25, I realize I'm dallying and am going to be late.
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He floated between cults and ideologies, dallying with occultism, Scientology and Jungian psychology.
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The other, dallying behind the main group, has had a less productive evening.
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As long as Vollman clings to this wish, he's dallying among the tombstones.
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The European Union's dilly-dallying on trade and investment issues with China is incomprehensible.
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I wind up dilly-dallying too much and curse when I realize that I'm late.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)But enough with all the dilly dallying, how bout those cameras?
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Those more peaceful paths were abandoned long ago to the dilly-dallying of strategic patience.
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This isn't opposing the war — it's actually criticizing Bush for dilly-dallying about the invasion.
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If you need a nudge to help you stop dallying and tackle those letters, this is it.
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Webster's dictionary defines dallying as "to flirt or trifle with someone" and canoodling as "to kiss and cuddle amorously". Really?
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The three of us spend a little time dilly-dallying around the massive outdoor shopping complex where the theater is.
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Pound was living in Italy and toiling on his great poem "The Cantos," while dallying with Fascism and Benito Mussolini.
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I'm suddenly in full on hangry mode and my husband is dilly dallying while I wait for him to get ready.
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We probably go dilly-dallying around the workplace without thinking twice about who and what's touched the surfaces we regularly encounter.
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He paints conservatives as knowing what they want and sticking to their convictions, and Democrats as being prone to dilly-dallying.
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The first five episodes are silly dilly-dallying while the Bachelor decides who among the wild cards is actually worth his time.
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When managing Everton in 2010, David Moyes infuriated Manchester City's Roberto Mancini by dallying when returning the ball for a throw-in.
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And after Gandalf does his thing in his godly white and helps defeat Sauron's forces, he doesn't spend time dilly-dallying in post-retirement.
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One of them, Omlet, or Poopies Dallying, was a collage of garbled texts from early versions of Hamlet, performed with handmade papier-mâché puppets.
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Liz's life in New York has run aground; she can't finish a second book and has just discovered her boyfriend dallying with another man.
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You might have thought the Mueller investigation into his campaign's dealings with Russia would have made Mr Trump wary of dallying with foreign governments.
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You start to root for Eleanor, despite her selfishness; for Chidi, despite his dallying; for Tahani, despite her narcissism; and for Jason, despite his folly.
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No unplugged shows for her, no Bon Iver covers or dallying with avant-garde producers: David Guetta and Sia will do, thank you very much.
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The city council complied (after dallying a bit), but when it came time for the Republican legislature to hold up its end of the bargain, it stalled.
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That's why casualties can occur, even before the storm arrives, with people dallying their way to shelter while lightning stretches out in front of the dark clouds.
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This Season 5 opener finds him, now demoted to game-show host — or perhaps promoted, since it's become a hit — and dallying with a contestant after hours.
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But the most serious allegations, including several pursued by Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel who uncovered Mr Clinton's dallying with Monica Lewinsky, were dismissed as unproven or baseless.
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The dilly-dallying of the past couple of decades has driven this cost up dramatically due to soaring house prices in the U.K. capital in the intervening period.
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Mr. Kabila's dallying has led to consternation in Congo and around the world that he is violating Congo's constitution and setting himself up as a president for life.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain refused to get behind Trump's stance, and he responded by dallying over whether he would endorse their runs for re-election.
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Schmidt, 41, both wrote and directed the play, a coming-of-age which stars Abigail Breslin and Isabelle Fuhrman as 14-year-old girls dallying in their first respective romances.
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In the mid-1970s, Margaret took the much younger Roddy Llewellyn for a lover, dallying with him on the Caribbean island of Mustique and at a hippieish commune in Wiltshire.
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Savinio's painting carries on the dissonance of his music (he called his style Sincerismo, or Sincerism), preserving the illusionistic character of Renaissance painting while dallying with various degrees of abstraction.
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But remember, the song is not a happy celebration of Jenny and Duncan's love: It's a gloomy ode about dallying with ghosts in a damp and unpleasant castle filled with sorrows.
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Having said that, I also do not admire Bill Clinton, whom you described as "dallying" with Monica Lewinsky in one sentence and then "canoodling" with her in another ("Hating Hillary", October 22nd).
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Congress needs to stop dallying and act immediately to restore a quorum to the Ex-Im Bank's board, and going forward, it needs to fund and support the bank's timely and effective operations.
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When five friends arrive at a Hamptons estate for a weekend of drink, drugs and dallying, Ruth (Lindsay Burdge, "A Teacher") volunteers to stay in the guesthouse, which is said to be haunted.
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The fact of the matter is that the Trump phenomenon is entirely their fault — the malign consequence of years of willfully reckless misconduct of public affairs followed by months of cowardly dilly-dallying.
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But among other things, Landy has been secretly dallying with Queen Joan of Navarre (Olivia Ross) under the nose of her hubby, King Philip IV of France (Ed Stoppard), who considers Landry his bosom pal.
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Created by Lauren Gussis (whose credits include the darkly comic "Dexter"), "Insatiable" pushes the envelope on several fronts, beginning with its portrayal of heavily sexualized teens, some of whom wind up dallying with willing adults.
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Despite coming from a highly conservative state, O'Rourke has long advocated for marijuana reform After months of dilly-dallying and Instagramming his trips to the dentist, former Democratic Congressman Beto O'Rourke finally declared his candidacy on March 14, 2019.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - By dallying over raising interest rates the U.S. Federal Reserve made it easier this week for central banks in the Asia Pacific to stay dovish, with Indonesia lowering rates on Thursday and Australia and New Zealand saying they could cut later.
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Now in its second season, her online clothing line, Rouje, offers pieces that sell out almost immediately; meaning those who want a slice of Damas' aesthetic are perpetually watching, waiting to cop a dallying dress or front-tie blouse the moment they go live.
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Alan Cumming — actor, author, irrepressible provocateur — rarely shies away from expressing his desires, whether in choosing his roles (the pansexual M.C. in "Cabaret," the fluidly dallying husband in "The Anniversary Party") or identifying as bisexual (once married to a woman, he is now married to a man).
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The effort didn't stop at writing music, but involved crafting a hypnotizing light show and visual presentation, a studio schedule with no room for dilly dallying, and thousands of miles, as the album was recorded, mixed, and mastered between LA, Paris, Hamburg, and Moelle's new home, London.
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After that, one could easily imagine the piece's touring the country, dallying in the very sorts of storefronts depicted in its cards, or else in museum or city hall lobbies all around this land, a global warming equivalent of the touring version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — It is polyphonic sonic dreamtime when dallying in Mathieu Copeland's disembodied sound-sculpture L'exposition d'un Rêve ("Exhibition of a Dream") at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Delegation to France, a private Portuguese institution created in 1956 by British financier of Armenian origin Calouste Gulbenkian.
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And it's where Rachel Comey, returning to New York after some dallying in California, was — although she's more Gen X than boomer, and her particular brand of swaddling clothes have less to do with throwback Thursdays than a kind of thrown-together cool; a non-neurotic wardrobe for a neurotic person.
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I returned to work when she was 10 weeks old and spent a few months doing a dance I've seen performed by many mothers I know: dallying too long at meetings until I thought my breasts would explode, taking my shirt off in a freezing server closet to pump, looking at pictures of the baby on the phone and crying, dropping and losing tiny pump pieces and crying more.
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And indeed to watch him dallying with a little gobbet of bread, or sipping his cup of thrice-watered wine, is enough to make a man feel shame at his own hunger.
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On this night she outshines her critics, wins the admiration of the men and the enmity of the women, and the dallying Henry returns to pay her court. The following morning she refuses him and promises to marry Cheyne.
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Hausen's poetry is rather artificial in form and often abstruse in spirit. He is fond of dallying with a word. Like most of the troubadours or minnesingers he sings chiefly of troubled love. He directly influenced Bernger von Horheim.
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Suraj (Abhishek Bachchan) is a simple village man who comes to Mumbai from Benaras to earn a degree in college. He gets smitten by a light- eyed beauty Pooja (Rani Mukerji). After some dilly-dallying, the duo express their love for each other. Suraj has big dreams.
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Horton, "who", Horace Walpole says, "had for many months been dallying with his passion, till she had fixed him to more serious views than he had intended." Anne was however generally thought one of the great beauties of the age, and Thomas Gainsborough painted her several times.
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The film closes on Benchley and his wife driving home; she harangues him for failing to sell the movie and that by dilly-dallying, Benchley missed his chance to sell the rights, with Disney having already produced a film. He answers "phooey", in the style of Donald Duck.
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The Countess rebukes Maddalena for dallying around when she should be dressing for the ball. The guests arrive. Among them is an Abbé who has come from Paris with news about the poor decisions of King Louis XVI's government. Also among the guests is the dashing and popular poet, Andrea Chénier.
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Pier-Sante Cicala (14 February 1664-29 December 1727) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born and active in Ascoli Piceno. After dallying with priesthood, he became a painter, manuscript illuminator, and architect. He trained in the former with Ludovico Trasi. He learned military architectural designs from Captain Celso Saccoccia.
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Following the end of the war, the Kaurava Party does well in the election, but the Muslim Group's strength is not diminished. The British government charges with treason the soldiers who joined Pandu's Swatantra Sena. Viscount Bertie Drewpad is appointed viceroy. His wife, Georgina, is excited at the prospect of dallying with lusty Indian men.
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Waiting outside, Kayama does not understand the significance of Marie's tears. He only knows that his hopes have been dashed again. But he does realize that Nambiar has hurt his sister, and finding him dallying with another girl from the village one day, he throws mud on Nambiar's jeep. Kayama now decides to take matters in his own hands.
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With the politicians dilly-dallying, the matter rolled on to the courts as public interest litigation. In 1996, Kolkata High Court asked the state government to submit a detailed report on pavement encroachment. In 1998, another case demanding rehabilitation of hawkers was moved in the court. In 2003, the high court asked the state government to state its stand on hawkers.
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Beau Brummel By 1811, Brummel has made his house in London the "rendezvous of the smart world" and himself the arbiter of fashion. When Lord Henry Stanhope catches him dallying with his infatuated wife, a duel ensues. Lord Henry misses, whereupon Brummel fires his pistol into the air. Afterward, however, Brummel informs Lady Hester Stanhope that he never loved her.
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Egomaniacal and temperamental Victor Fabian is the London Festival Orchestra's conductor. His wife, Dolly, is a harpist who acts on her husband's behalf, presenting his impossible demands to the symphony's backers, only to then find him dallying with a considerably younger musician. Dolly decides to leave him, whereupon he destroys her harp. Victor's conducting suffers in Dolly's absence and the orchestra needs her back.
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Meanwhile, James IV of Scotland (despite being Henry's other brother-in-law), activated his alliance with the French and declared war on England. While Henry was dallying in France, Catherine, who was serving as regent in his absence, and his advisers were left to deal with this threat. At the Battle of Flodden on 9 September 1513, the Scots were completely defeated. James and most of the Scottish nobles were killed.
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Weinstein came under intense criticism for his inaction regarding a number of rabbis in Safed, who, according to Haaretz called on Jewish homeowners to not rent to Arabs—an action they claim is prohibited by Halakha. A number of MKs, mainly from Meretz, and public intellectuals, attacked him for dallying on pursuing an investigation against the rabbis, who they argued, as civic officials, were in severe violation of Israeli law.
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Accident-prone sports news photographer Cory (Jim Henshaw) carries a torch for his best friend's wife Linda (Susan Hogan). After Linda discovers her husband dallying with another woman, she leaves him. Cory's hopes appear to be dashed when she moves in, not with Cory, but his gay neighbour. Meanwhile, Cory's free-spirited co- worker from the newspaper Annie (Susan Petrie) has decided that Cory is the one for her.
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Theobald reached Acre on 1 September; he was soon joined by those crusaders who were scattered by a Mediterranean storm in transit. There they met by a council of local Christian potentates, most prominently: Walter of Brienne, Odo of Montbéliard, Balian of Beirut, John of Arsuf, and Balian of Sidon. Theobald was also joined by some crusaders from Cyprus. Theobald spent much time dallying at pleasant Acre, where he wrote a poem to his wife.
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He uses as an excuse to Barbara the fact that he is married to withdraw from the situation. Also, as a man of humble social standing, he is horribly aware that he cannot afford to risk offending the influential Wellesley clan by dallying with her. After her rejection, the embarrassed Lady Barbara avoids him as best she can. An English convoy is sighted soon afterwards and she transfers to a more spacious ship.
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Royal Collection, Windsor Castle. Edward was a healthy baby who suckled strongly from the outset. His father was delighted with him; in May 1538, Henry was observed "dallying with him in his arms ... and so holding him in a window to the sight and great comfort of the people". That September, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Audley, reported Edward's rapid growth and vigour; and other accounts describe him as a tall and merry child.
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Cover art by Richard Howell and right Soon after the Surtur War, Thor leads a number of Asgardian heroes to Hel, the realm of the death goddess Hela. The Executioner asks Thor to let him join the expedition for reasons he does not immediately reveal. In truth, he had seen the Enchantress dallying with Heimdall, and, heartbroken, Skurge wishes to lose himself in a noble cause — such as rescuing lost souls from Hela.
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After dallying in the woods, the sylph dies when her earthly lover uses a bewitched scarf to trap her. This ballet brought Marie Taglioni before the French public. She was the first to dance en pointe for artistic reasons rather than spectacle and was also the first to wear the white, bell-shaped, calf-length ballet skirt now considered an essential feature of the romantic ballet. Poet and critic Théophile Gautier attended the first performance of La Sylphide.
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Pope Paul III Reynolds issued a stinging rebuke to pope Paul III for not condemning the heretical and schismatic behaviour of King Henry. He said he represented the Earl of Kildare, the other great nobles of Ireland, and their allies in England. He argued against Henry's ecclesiastical policy in general, rather than simply referring to the Irish political and ecclesiastical grievances. The pope, he said, was negligent for allowing so many souls to be lost by dallying over Henry's matrimonial question.
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It was in 1239 that Theobald directed a crusading host to the Holy Land. Militarily, the Barons' Crusade was not glorious, but it led to several diplomatic successes. He spent much time dallying at pleasant Acre (where he wrote a poem to his wife) before moving on Ascalon, where he began the construction of a castle. Whilst marching the crusader army to Ascalon, a contingent of 400 knights led by Hugh of Burgundy, Henry of Bar, and Amaury of Montfort chose to engage Muslim forces at Gaza.
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He was also president of the school's alumni association, helping to create the DePauw Alumni Fund. In , some baseball owners had become displeased with Happy Chandler's service as commissioner and did not want to renew his contract. In September, the owners elected Frick to replace Chandler in a twelve-hour meeting that the Chicago Tribune called "their all-time peak in dilly-dallying". The owners were able to quickly narrow the candidates down from five unnamed nominees to two frontrunners, Frick and Warren Giles.
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Although dallying with the idea of training as a minister he instead continued in mathematics, moving as a teacher to Edinburgh Academy in 1866. He initially rented rooms but by 1880 he was living at 85 Great King Street, a grand property in Edinburgh’s Second New Town.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1880–1 By 1890 he was living at 69 Northumberland Street, a short walk from the Academy.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1890–1 In 1882 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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He goes to Ulysses and asks him why he is being scorned, and Ulysses tells him that he is no longer a hero and he will be forgotten quickly. He tells, and suggests that Achilles could restore his fame and honor if he stopped dallying with enemy women and took the field. When Ulysses is gone, Patroclus tells Achilles to follow Ulysses's advice; seeing that his reputation is at stake, and Achilles agrees. Thersites comes in and reports that Ajax is now striding about the camp, completely puffed up with his own importance.
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The Federals retreated all the way back to Chattanooga, where they awaited an immediate attack by Bragg's exultant army.Lance III, Joseph M., Major, USMC: Patrick R. Cleburne and the Tactical Employment of His Division at Chickamauga, pg. 77–78. Bragg, however, threw away the greatest victory in his career by dallying on the battlefield to collect left-behind equipment and tend to his wounded, rather than quickly pursuing and destroying the demoralized Federals.Lance III, Joseph M., Major, USMC: Patrick R. Cleburne and the Tactical Employment of His Division at Chickamauga, pg. 79.
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Even as her career in children's literature flourished, Credle found it difficult to conceive of plots that were fresh enough to satisfy her editors. However, she personally felt children "don't mind if the plot is time-worn [because] their experience doesn't include many plots." She did acknowledge that little children "require well-plotted stories" and will "lose interest if one wanders from the main line and begins dillying and dallying with words." Credle often used the folk tales and legends of North Carolina, as well as her own childhood experiences, to provide a ready framework for her writing.
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Maugham was not yet well known; Wilkinson found him "unobtrusive, rather wary, unusually good-looking", although the play impressed him. Maugham and Wilkinson would resume their acquaintance some years later, and a strong friendship would develop; in due course Wilkinson would write that: "[b]y comparison to Maugham, [Bernard] Shaw seemed ... a writer of pseudo-plays a freak, [John] Galsworthy a mediocrity and [J.M.] Barrie a mess". During his final year at Cambridge, in 1905, Wilkinson wrote and published his first novel, The Puppet's Dallying, using the pseudonym "Louis Marlow", a name which he would resurrect as a mature writer in the 1920s.
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Oliver often printed items about Desert Steve in his 'newspaper,' the Desert Rat Scrap Book. Within a few years, Ragsdale operated a number of satellite businesses in locations such as Cactus City, Hell, Skyway, Box Canyon, and Shaver's Well. Around 1950, he was accused of dallying with an office worker in his employ and left Desert Center in disgrace, living the rest of his days in self-imposed exile at his log cabin retreat near the summit of Santa Rosa Mountain. His sons, Stanley, Thurman, and Herbert, took over operations of Desert Center, and Stanley eventually purchased the town from his father.
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The western saddle features a prominent pommel topped by a horn (a knob used for dallying a lariat after roping an animal), a deep seat and a high cantle. The stirrups are wider and the saddle has rings and ties that allow objects to be attached to the saddle. Western horses are asked to perform with a loose rein, controlled by one hand. The standard western bridle lacks a noseband and usually consists of a single set of reins attached to a curb bit that has somewhat longer and looser shanks than the curb of an English Weymouth bridle or a pelham bit.
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Ancient Greek legends tell of brazen sailors embarking on long and perilous voyages to the remote land of Cilicia, where they traveled to procure what they believed was the world's most valuable saffron. The best-known Hellenic saffron legend is that of Crocus and Smilax: The handsome youth Crocus sets out in pursuit of the nymph Smilax in the woods near Athens; in a brief dallying interlude of idyllic love, Smilax is flattered by his amorous advances, but all too soon tires of his attentions. He continues his pursuit; she resists. She bewitches Crocus: he is transformed—into a saffron crocus.
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This led to widespread violence across the Southern Colorado Coalfield area, unlike the small pockets of violence that occurred in canyons in the early days of the strike. Popular opinion began to side with the miners. Newspapers that had previously sided with the company and Ammons, such as the Daily Camera and Rocky Mountain News, began to sympathize with the strikers and blame "dilly-dallying" on Ammons' part for the deaths. Strikers sought revenge on non-striking miners, attacking Southwestern Mine Co.'s Empire Mine on Wednesday, 22 April, only to relent after a 21-hour siege.
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Most, however, believe privately that Connie's death was an admission of guilt and feel relief that the ordeal is over. But letters are soon arriving again and the police become involved, keeping watch on local letterboxes in an attempt to catch the culprit. David now starts to receive letters detailing Ann's alleged infidelity, and unstable villager Sam Hurrin (Robert Newton) is targeted with information that his wife Sucal (Belle Chrystall) is dallying behind his back with local shopkeeper Len Griffin (Edward Chapman). After drinking himself into a rage, Hurrin goes out to confront Griffin and shoots him fatally.
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See the book Montana 1911: A Professor and his Wife among the Blackfeet for further details behind this contribution of the Blackfoot Indian language to Homo Ludens. (2) : koani — all children's games and surprisingly also in the erotic sense of "dallying", : kachtsi — organized play. ;JapaneseHuizinga acknowledges the assistance of Professor Johannes Rahder, Huizinga 1955, p.34. Having identified a single word, Huizinga then goes on to explain that the matter is more complicated, Specifically, he mentions bushido (which was enacted in play-forms) and later asobase-kotoba (literally play-language — for polite speech, the mode of address used in conversation with persons of higher rank).
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The Puppet's Dallying did not immediately launch Wilkinson's career as a novelist, although its critical reception was modestly favourable. Wilkinson was influenced by John Cowper Powys into trying his hand at university extension lecturing, and accepted an invitation to make a six-month American lecture- tour on English literature in the year 1905–06. This venture proved a success, and was followed by regular further tours. Dissatisfied with the financial terms arranged for him by the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching (ASEUT), in 1910 Wilkinson combined with G. Arnold Shaw, Powys's manager and publisher, to form the University Lecturers Association of New York (ULANY).
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The jealous Larivaudière appears meanwhile and, to clear herself, Lange declares that Pitou and Clairette are lovers and have come to the house to join in a meeting of anti-government conspirators to be held at midnight. Clairette discovers that she does not enjoy a monopoly of Pitou's affections, and that he is dallying with Lange. The conspirators arrive in due time, but in the middle of proceedings, the house is surrounded by Hussars; Lange hides the badges of the conspirators, "collars black and tawny wigs", and the affair takes on the appearance of nothing more dangerous than a ball. The Hussars join gaily in the dance.
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He inspects his share of the slaves taken in Gaul, and finds that nearly all of them have died of disease, on top of which he still has to pay the bill for their transport and feeding. He asks Erastes Fulmen for a loan, but the crafty gangster demurs, and instead maneuvers Lucius into accepting a lucrative position as his enforcer. Having captured the city, Caesar seems to be in no hurry to pursue Pompey to the coast, instead spending his evenings dallying with Servilia. Jealous of her influence over Caesar, Atia hires Timon to paint rude graffiti depicting Caesar and Servilia's relationship all over the city.
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Uilenspiegel's love for his sweetheart Nele, whom he left behind, does not prevent him from dallying with every attractive woman he meets. One of his fleeting sexual encounters is mentioned as resulting in the birth of a German bastard, who would be named Ulenspiegel and whose own tricks would in later times be confused with those of his sire. In many places along the way, Uilenspiegel manages to gain free board and lodging by the simple expedient of shamelessly flattering the beauty of female innkeepers. Eventually, he gets to Rome and obtains the required Papal pardon, through a combination of an Uilenspiegel trick played on the Pope in person and a bribe paid into the Catholic Church's coffers.
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He contested Liberhan Commission's claim that demolition of the Babri Mosque was planned and charged "dilly-dally" by the then government of Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao was responsible for the incident. "It was not a planned incident. Because of the dilly-dallying attitude by the then Prime Minister and delay in court judgements, things went out of control as lakhs of people gathered at Ayodhya for kar seva," Sudarshan told a press conference. He claimed when the people, who had climbed the canopy of the disputed structure, were unable to break it with heavy hammers and 'saabal' (long iron rod), the armed forces personnel present there caused the damage to its walls by triggering an explosive.
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A return to duty comes when he is appointed to be commodore and sent with a squadron of small craft on a mission to the Baltic Sea, where he must be a diplomat as much as an officer. He foils an assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander I of Russia and is influential in the monarch's decision to resist the French invasion of the Russian Empire. While at the court of the Tsar, it is implied (but not explicitly confirmed) that he is unfaithful to Barbara, dallying with a young Russian noblewoman. He provides invaluable assistance in the defence of Riga, employing his bomb-ketches against the French army, where he meets General Carl von Clausewitz of the Prussian Army.
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Deciding to stop in California to visit their daughter Sandi (Lori Loughlin), Frankie and Annette are appalled to learn that she has been making time with surfer Michael (Tommy Hinkley) throughout her time there. The family misses their flight to Hawaii, and ultimately end up staying in California, much to the chagrin of Frankie. Frankie and Annette get caught up with the lives of their old friends and their old beach, and thus their last beach adventure begins. Along the way, Frankie must work together with a new generation of younger surfers while nearly ruining his marriage by dallying with Connie Stevens — one of several pop-culture icons appearing in the film, including Fishbone, Don Adams, Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Edd Byrnes, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, Barbara Billingsley, Dick Dale, Stevie Ray Vaughan, O. J. Simpson, and Pee-wee Herman.
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Madame Soldinck, to whom Cugel naively entrusts the duties of night helmsman, outwits her captor by turning the ship in the opposite direction every night while Cugel is asleep after dallying with her daughters. To evade retribution at the hands of Master Soldinck, who is pursuing the Galante in a lubberly cog, Cugel runs the ship aground on the Tustvold mud flats and wades ashore. (Chapters I.2, II.1, II.2, II.3) At the nearby village of Tustvold he falls in with a quarryman and antiquarian named Nisbet, whose trade is the construction of columns atop which the idle husbands of the industrious village women bask in the rays of the dying sun. The height of the columns is a status symbol and so the village women vie with each other to have Nisbet erect taller and taller columns for their husbands.
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But the winds had failed; and so, too, the > smart captain of the Flying Fish evidently thought had the Sailing > Directions. The Sailing Directions advise the navigator to cross the calm > belt in as straight a line as the winds will allow, not fearing the land > about Cape St. Roque, or the current that is supposed to sweep round it. > Nickels, forgetting that the charts are founded on the experience of great > numbers, being tempted, turned a deaf ear to the caution, and flung away > three whole days and more of most precious time dallying in the doldrums. He > spent two days about the parallel of 3 degrees north, and his ship left the > doldrums, after this waste of time, nearly upon the same meridian at which > she entered them. She was still in 34 degrees, the current keeping her back > just as fast as she could fan east.
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Abul Khaizuran, the truck driver, tries to be brisk but is dragged into defending his honor as the Iraqi checkpoint officer teases him by suggesting he had been dallying with prostitutes. The intensity of heat within the water carrier is such that no one could survive more than several minutes, and indeed they expire inside as Khaizuran is drawn into trading anecdotes that play up a non-existent virility—they address him as though he were effeminized, with the garrulous Abu Baqir outside in an office. Their deaths are to be blamed, not on the effect of the stifling effect of the sun's heat, but on their maintaining silence as they suffer... The ending has often been read as a trope for the futility of Palestinian attempts to try an build a new identity far away from their native Palestine, and the figure of Abul Khaizuran a symbol of the impotence of the Palestinian leadership. Amy Zalman has detected a covert leitmotif embedded in the tale, in which Palestine is figured as the beloved female body, while the male figures are castrated from being productive in their attempts to seek another country.
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