Word: ashley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls traditionally wear white. To chastise Julie, Pres dances her feet off while proper and white-frocked New Orleans belles primly withdraw to the sidelines. That night Julie's good night to Pres is a slap fully as resounding as that which Scarlett O'Hara deals to Ashley Wilkes to give Gone With the Wind its real start. When Pres goes, Julie is confident he will come back. A year later he does return, with a Northern bride (Margaret Lindsay). With every vixenish wile she can think of, Julie tries to satisfy her longing and her hate. When...
Murder in the Cathedral (by T. S. Eliot; produced by Gilbert Miller & Ashley Dukes). Poetic drama by modern writers has been chiefly the plaything of the Little Theatres or the largess of high-minded or highfalutin producers. With a contemporary background poetic drama seems nerveless, artificial, grandiose. But with a historical background it can still, in the right hands, achieve a noble movement...
Education's Thorndike. The record of the Thorndike family confirms his own emphasis on the importance of heredity. His late brother Ashley was one of the foremost U. S. Shakespearean scholars. Another brother, Lynn, is an authority on medieval history, his sister (now retired) was a brilliant high-school teacher. Of his four children, three are college teachers and the fourth an undergraduate, all unusual scholars...
Eliot encountered surprisingly stiff opposition from the hapless Dunsterites, but superior Elephant power, plus the spectacular play of halfback Ashley Trope, told the story...
Eliot in the thick of the race up until yesterday's game with Kirkland, has won its victories through sheer power. Bob Uihloin, the biggest man in House ball, and Skip Batchelder, scrappy center, are the mainstays of the line, while speedy Captain Cartor White and Ashley Trope, kicker and passer, are the outstanding backs...