In July, Tuthill wrote his client about a carving in a marble fireplace that incorporated the owner's initials, noting somewhat obsequiously that "it is quite unusual to have three initials that lend themselves so easily to decorative effect".
Dick composes "Broadway Baby," trying the initial notes of Stephen Sondheim's version before rejecting them.
The sniper's initial note in Virginia reportedly had complained that he tried to reach the police but was rebuffed a number of times on the hot line.
Better still, Bebeto's initial note and then an open letter to Lucas published in La Voz de Galicia wished him luck in making it eight to "help Depor win".
By comparing his initial notes of face wounds with the cast, Dr. Hayne testified, he found it probable that the boy had been suffocated by a large male hand.
The following December, shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, Metesky sent a letter bearing the same block-style handwriting of the initial note to police headquarters.
This is not untypical; most months, an initial "note verbale" (third-person note) grants permission for almost all the requested locations, but this is then denied further down the line.
His initial notes list the most incongruous objects: "Games, puzzles, TV circuitry, computer and transistor boards, optical instruments, piano keys, Lego, shoes, teeth, die, beads, bobbins, matches, chocolate moulds, rubber stamps, playing cards, gramophone records, film and audio tapes..."...
At first Lisa learns from a steward that the passenger has a British passport, and the initial notes of "Rule Britannia," sounded by the orchestra, suggest her temporary relief.
Sometimes his source was a notebook that he kept on his walks, at other times his published books; and though the gap between his initial notes and a verse draft could be many months, once he began on the poem itself he usually completed it in a single day.
