They had been summoned to Hollywood to write a movie musical based on an existing catalog of songs by Arthur Freed, the producer and lyricist, and his partner, the composer Nacio Herb Brown.
He was summoned to the office to write about how the bombings were affecting financial markets around the world, and she was sent to Leeds, in northern England, where three of the four suicide bombers had lived.
Mr. Galbraith said that Johnson had summoned him to write the final draft of his speech outlining the purposes of the Great Society, and that when the writing was done, said, "I'm not going to change a word.
And abandon that life he did, with alacrity, the very moment Adlai Stevenson summoned him to write speeches and counsel him in the first of two futile runs for the presidency, in 1952.
When pregnant with my first daughter, I was summoned to bed rest and wrote poetry as a way to help me cope.
Sir Alexander Cadogan, top official at the Foreign Office, wrote of being summoned to Stalin's room.
Forty-odd years after being accused of treason, damaging national security – and subsequently bringing down a president with the power of the written word – Bradlee was summoned to the White House to be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
She preluded her rendition of Grieg's "En Svane" ("A Swan") by telling the story behind the Ibsen poem that forms the lyric: Ibsen wrote it after being summoned to the deathbed of a female friend, who then confessed that she had been secretly in love with him for decades.
I'm glad I summoned the courage to write to him when I did - more than 60 years ago".
From Bleeck's, the reporter Sanche de Gramont was summoned on March 4 , 1960 to write about the death on stage of the baritone Leonard Warren at the Metropolitan Opera House.
