Sentence examples for engaged him to write from inspiring English sources

Hitchcock asked him to play some of the other things he had written and engaged him to write the score for his new show, "Hitchy-Koo of 1919".

The Des Moines Register and Tribune engaged him to write a column, but after two years the paper's syndicate did not renew his contract.

It must be galling for Stewart that the source he relied on for the falsehood in his history was the man who engaged him to write it.

The British publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson engaged him to write a volume on the Florentine Renaissance for its Everyman Art Library, published in the United States in 1997 under the title "Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art".

The theatre critic Kenneth Tynan wrote: In 1955 Coward's cabaret act at Las Vegas, recorded live for the gramophone, and released as Noël Coward at Las Vegas was so successful that CBS engaged him to write and direct a series of three 90-minute television specials for the 1955 56 season.

When he was not engaged in writing the official poems that his duties at the French court compelled him to write, Marot spent most of his time translating the Psalms; a first edition of some of these appeared in 1539, the Trente Pseaulmes de Davíd in 1542.

Hincmar was worried that Gottschalk's side was attracting powerful supporters and he engaged Eriugena to write a strong rebuttal.

Sony also engaged Vanderbilt to write scripts for Spider-Man 5 and Spider-Man 6.

Her first efforts, anonymous contributions to gossip columns in society magazines, led to occasional signed articles, and in 1930 The Lady engaged her to write a regular column.

Those movies allowed him to be more socially engaged, to write about "definable people in specific locations," he said.

Berlin, too, denied the rumors, saying that he was not engaged to anyone except Sam Harris, with whom he was engaged to write a Broadway revue and a show for the Marx Brothers.