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...might make the nimble Australian redhead work up a sweat on the courts. For years. Lefthander Laver, 23, labored as a B-team scrub on the great Down Under squads that dominated amateur tennis, taking his lumps regularly from such talented first-stringers as Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall and Ashley Cooper. Even after the varsity turned pro, Laver could not seem to win the big ones: he lost twice in the finals at Wimbledon, twice more at Forest Hills. But this year The Rocket is finally off the pad. He swept the Australian and French singles titles, and on Wimbledon...
...ACHIEVEMENT OF WALLACE STEVENS (287 pp.)-Edited by Ashley Brown and Robert S. Haller-Lippincott...
...jail in Magnolia, Mississippi. Twelve of use are here, sprawled out along the concrete bunker. Curtis Hayes, Hollis Watkins, Ike Lewis, and Robert Talbert, four veterans of the bunker, are sitting up talking--mostly about girls. (Charles) McDew...is curled into the concrete and the wall; Harold Robinson, Stephen Ashley, James Wells, Lee Chester Vick, Leetus Eubanks, and Ivery Diggs lay cramped on the cold bunker; I'm sitting with smuggled pen and paper, thinking a little, writing a little; Myrits Bennett and Janie Campbell are across the way wedded to a different icy cubicle...
Divorce & a Horse. Divorce was Giesler's other specialty. Married twice himself (he had two daughters and one son), he helped Barbara Hutton divest herself of Cary Grant, took the side of Lady Sylvia Ashley against Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe against Joe DiMaggio. In his most bizarre case, he defended the life of a horse named Tom Boy whose owner's will had decreed that the stallion should be destroyed to save him from mistreatment; and in perhaps his most celebrated case, he won an acquittal for Charlie Chaplin, charged with a violation of the Mann...
...Carney is a master of comic body English: when he stumbles over a table in the flickering, candlelit murk of a coffeehouse and barks at the bohemian proprietor like a wounded seal, "Are you OPEN?", he is inexpressibly funny. As lovable as Carney's philistine brute is Elizabeth Ashley's collegiate beauty, perfumed with dew-behind-the-ears charm. Between them, these two duck a good many of the script's incessantly bursting soap bubbles...