Word: ashley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During these lean years of Down Under tennis, Mal Anderson and Ashley Cooper still managed to win the Davis Cup in 1957; they might have repeated in 1958 if Peruvian Alex Olmedo had not carried the U.S. to victory. Both turned pro with varying success: Cooper has done well, but Anderson is erratic and unspectacular. They were ably replaced as Davis Cuppers by Fraser, Laver and Emerson...
...North Buffalo. N.Y.. frightened parents confiscated their children's bikes, Bible-class attendance dwindled, and one cautious housewife locked all three doors to her house, kept the key on a chain around her neck. The town had been terrified by the brutal drowning of blond Andrew Ashley, 3, who was found floating in the nearby Delaware Park lake, hands and feet tied with nylon stockings. Recalling two similar but nonfatal kidnapings of North Buffalo children during the past two months, a local psychiatrist concluded. "This is the reaction of a person who has become extremely jealous, perhaps...
...route." In Hemingway's view, the universal moral standard was nonexistent, but there were the clique moralities of the sportsman or the soldier, or, in his own case, the writer. So he invented the Code Hero, the code being "what we have instead of God," as Lady Brett Ashley puts it in The Sun Also Rises...
...other love stories read like adolescent male fantasies. In Hemingway there are only two kinds of women-the bitches like Margaret Macomber who shoots her husband the moment he displays courage, and the somnambules like Maria, who sleepwalks into Robert Jordan's sleeping bag. Lady Brett Ashley is a special breed, a likable bitch. Ibsen's Nora wanted to be her own woman. Promiscuous, aggressive Brett, with her habit of calling everybody "chap," is both her own woman and her own man, with the fatal sterility of being able to give herself...
Died. Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 91, the ninth Earl of Shaftesbury, senior member of the House of Lords, a World War I brigadier who served as a private in World War II because his age barred him from a commission, and who, as longtime Lord Steward for King George V, was in charge of everything from giving out alms to keeping the peace among members of the Royal Household staff; after a short illness; in Salisbury, England...