Word: beasleyisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sign-pointer for the national than any other mid-season event ? Ellsworth Vines was no longer unknown. People had learned about him ? that his father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, that he began playing when he was six and was later coached by Mercer Beasley who also developed Clifford Sutter, national intercollegiate champion. He won the national junior doubles with Keith Gledhill last year, is ranked No. 2 in junior singles. He had never seen a grass event till he arrived in the East four weeks...
...Macon, Ga., small, withered John Joshua Beasley of Auburn, Ga., 71, claimed he had sired 40 children, discoursed on his progeny: "I can't recall them offhand, but all 40 are on record at the court house. Now some of them died before we could think up names for them, so they were never named. . . . There was Molly, Florence, Mandy, John Will, Joe, Norm, E. T., Ola, Claudie and Cloodie. . . . I can't think of another one in the first batch." With John Joshua Beasley were his second wife and their youngest child, aged 18 months...