"We'll see about that," she said, and devoted the next few years to proving doctors wrong.
Resettling in Dad's home state of Washington, she re-cut his Army uniform into clothing for us kids and devoted the next 20-odd years to motherhood -- without much help from Dad, an over-busy doctor in a town of 5,000.
He fell in love with American art, sold his earlier collection of European pictures and devoted the next 25 years to assembling a collection of over 700 high-quality American paintings spanning the early 19th century to the middle of the 20th.
Having assumed command in Egypt (see above The Egyptian frontiers, 1915 July 1917), Allenby transferred his headquarters from Cairo to the Palestinian front and devoted the summer of 1917 to preparing a serious offensive against the Turks.
With Mr. Ozawa and company accompanying, Mr. Rostropovich gave the New York premiere of Eric Tanguy's Cello Concerto No. 2 (2000) and devoted the second half of the concert to a magnificent rendering of the Dvorak Cello Concerto.
Mr. Rothman opened his concert with a trim, polished account of Mozart's Divertimento in D (K. 136) and devoted the second half to a Romantic rarity, Gounod's Symphony No. 1.
In 1907, frustrated by the demands of clients and by mismanagement of the organization's finances, he resigned and devoted the last decade of his life to painting, in which occupation he was not nearly as original judging by a single small, nondescript still life from 1907 included in the show.
Mr. Levine led works by Elliott Carter, John Harbison and Milton Babbitt on the first half of the program and devoted the second half to a performance of Stravinsky's "Histoire du Soldat" in which Mr. Harbison was the narrator, Mr. Carter the Soldier and Mr. Babbitt the Devil.
Like Mr. Warrillow, my husband and I chose to switch gears and devote the next year to selling our business.
Blagdon grew up on a Nebraska farm and hoboed around the West for a couple of years in his youth before returning home and devoting the second half of his life to constructing what he claimed was a great electromagnetic healing machine out of wire, cans, bottles, pieces of wood and other bits of salvaged junk.
It closed in 2004, and Murphy devoted the next decade to his long-cherished project of developing a Broadway musical around the life of Charlie Chaplin.
