Word: ashley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. George Marquis Sunday, 40, son of famed Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday; of injuries suffered last fortnight when he jumped or fell from a window of his fourth-floor apartment; in San Francisco...
Died. Famed Professor Ashley Horace Thorndike of Columbia University, 61; in Manhattan. Stricken with a heart attack as he was walking home from a club dinner. Professor Thorndike was found unconscious as he lay on a deserted Madison Avenue sidewalk. Best-known Thorndike textbooks: Facts about Shakespeare; Tragedy; English Comedy...
...last month opened the Midday Soup Kitchen, serving 300 lunches of soup, bread & milk to the indigent. Observing the walls decorated with pictures of Cunard Liners, reporters last week discovered that the kitchen's manager is Lady Sparks, wife of Cunard's New York manager, Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks. "Really, " smiled she, "I'm only the cook here...
...Doubleday, Doran ($2). A MODERN HERO-Louis Bromfield- Stokes ($2.50). MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY-Nordhoff & Hall-Little, Brown ($2.50). THE NARROW CORNER-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). 1919 - John Dos Passos - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). OBSCURE DESTINIES-Willa Gather- Knopf ($2). THE PAST RECAPTURED-Marcel Proust -Boni ($2.50). PETER ASHLEY-DuBose Heyward- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). THE SHELTERED LIFE-Ellen Glasgow -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). SONS - Pearl S. Ruck -John Day ($2.50). STATE FAIR - Phil Stong - Century ($2.50). THE STORE-T. S. Stribling-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). WANTON MALLY-Booth Tarkington- Doubleday, Doran ($2). YOUNG WOMAN OF 1914-Arnold Zweig -Viking...
...Peter Ashley, scion of one of Charleston's first families, had no wish to be a planter. His skeptically intelligent uncle adopted him, developed his doubts, protected his sensitiveness, sent him to Oxford to finish his education. He was to come back to a literary career. But the first sight Peter saw as his ship entered Charleston Harbor was the shelling of a U. S. Navy ship by Charleston batteries. Peter, like his uncle, was Southern to the core, but he thought he was a Unionist too. While he watched the young hotheads race each other into uniform...