Because he was a quiet, sober person who lived an unusually unflamboyant life by the standards of celebrated American writers, it's easy to miss how much he achieved.
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"After the Party" by the Menzingers, an outfit that specializes in a sort of blue-collar, unflamboyant style, is a contemplation of a new, less frantic phase of life — a record that finds them examining the past as feverishly as they push toward the future.
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His figures are relatively short and stocky, and reflect little of classical ideals. Their poses and gestures are unflamboyant, and their facial expressions resemble those in Early Netherlandish painting rather than the bella figura of most Italian Renaissance work.
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Arnaldo Forlani – Enciclopedia Treccani Forlani was considered an unflamboyant politician who attempted to stay out of the factionalism in his party, and was seen as the man who could re-unite DC. As Prime Minister he had to deal with corruption scandals within his party and a renewed bout of left- wing terrorism.
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In 1918, 6 years after her father-in-law died, her husband brought her in and she began working at the New-York Tribune, becoming an advertising solicitor. Instrumental in merging the New-York Tribune with the New York Herald, she took over as president on the death of her husband in 1947. In her obituary, The New York Times described her as follows: > Mrs. Reid was an unflamboyant but powerful force in the newspaper world and > in the city's civic and social life.
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Others, however, cite that milestone as among the reasons why Gately is a "gay rights hero". Wrote Tim Teeman of the Times Online, "Gately showed that an unflamboyant guy could be a pop star and gay...the real shame should be reserved for those managers and showbusiness power-brokers who practise that kind of discrimination, and also maintain the closet, to line their pockets." At the time of Gately's death the group had selected thirty songs which they intended to record for a new album to be released in 2010. This was to have been followed by a tour.
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In July 1906, he was appointed as Sheriff of Fife and Kinross, replacing the deceased Robert Younger KC. In April 1907 he became an unpaid Commissioner For Lunacy, and in 1909 he was raised to the bench as a Senator of the College of Justice with the judicial title of Lord Cullen, filling the vacancy caused the resignation of Lord Pearson. An unflamboyant judge who disliked public speaking and avoided ceremonies where possible, Cullen was promoted in 1918 to the Inner House, where he sat in the Valuation Appeal Court. He resigned from the court in 1925, and his seat was given to David Fleming KC, who became Lord Fleming.
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The Tavern is a brick, two storey building, sitting close to the road overlooking the Jane Brook and Railway Reserve Heritage Trail. It has large verandas and balustrades on both floors across most of the south and west facing frontages which contributes to the building's impact on its surroundings. The timber veranda detailing has arched underside veranda beams together with unflamboyant ladder friezes; the dominant projecting roof gables over the front veranda; the remnant of rough cast render combined with brickwork on the chimney are of a later 'Bungalow' style, whilst the rendered bands of brickwork, rendered sills and lintels, the double hung timber windows, Georgian mullioned in the top sash and the odd surviving elements of stained glass all express the building's character from the federation period.
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Smith"; they were later joined by a 17-year-old Polish girl, Kristina.Spectator 1956 "They were Smith (50), an American civil engineer; Paluchowicz (41), a sergeant in the Polish cavalry; Makowski (37), an officer of the Polish Frontier Force; Zaro (30), 'a Yugoslav, I think'; Marchinkovas (28), a Lithuanian architect;"The Economist 1956 "Kolemenos, the fourteen stone Latvian landowner, "a kind and helpful giant of a man "; Makowski, the precise Polish army captain, Paluchowicz, " tough, toothless, devout, old Paluchowicz," the sergeant of Polish cavalry ; Zaro, the Jugoslav clerk and resilient humorist of the party ; Marchinkovas, the Lithuanian architect" They journeyed from Siberia to India crossing the Gobi Desert and Himalayas. Four of the group died, two in the Gobi, two in the Himalayas.The Spectator: 1956 "Rawicz, with the unflamboyant help of Mr. Ronald Downing, tells their astonishing story in The Long Walk,"... "The Lithuanian died in his sleep one night, and they lost the toothless, indomitable Paluchowicz down a crevasse.
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