Even though she became the highest-paid black performer of her day, the advent of swing ultimately sent her career on the skids.
When I was a child we would listen to Carol and the Advent Calendar every December, a radio play written by my father, telling the story of a little girl who climbs through the windows of her beautiful wooden advent calendar.
All this emphasis on the screen has made me root for the advent of her reading.
Just when you thought she couldn't get any nicer, she has taken it to the level of near-saintliness with the advent of her own network.
Or is she, having fallen suddenly and unexpectedly in love (until the advent of her dogged suitor, Everard Barfoot, Rhoda has been vociferously opposed to marriage on principle) about to bow out of the great struggle herself?
With the advent of her innovative grocery store the Silver Palate, which offered foodstuff ingredients from all over the world and dispelled the notion that food had to be French to be chic, Lukins helped to change the way that New Yorkers cooked in the 1970s and '80s.
Another admits that the advent of her brother's daughter means mourning the loss of their tight-knit sibling bond.
She set off for France in the summer of 1939 hoping to meet some of her heroes, but the advent of World War II led her to return home.
Cook County States' Attorney Anita Alvarez announced Nash's dismissed charges -- the first overturned murder conviction since the advent of her office's new Conviction Integrity Unit -- Thursday afternoon, according to NBC Chicago.
She made protecting the legal rights of "dissenters and the dispossessed" a part of her practice long before the advent of public interest law, defending Black Panthers in New Haven, civil rights workers in Mississippi, and citizens in the denaturalization proceedings during the McCarthy era.
