Word: charleye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shrill Idealism. Perhaps in rebellion against tyrannical Daddy, Prescott's cynical, slatternly daughter Cordelia seduces one of his prize ex-pupils, Charley Strong, and shacks up with him in Paris. Poor Charley, missing one lung from shrapnel in World War I, has not long to live, and Cordelia genuinely loves him. But Prescott is determined to save them both. He pops up in Paris "at his most ebullient, his most awful." He takes over Charley and ousts Cordelia. When Charley dies, it is in Prescott's, not Cordelia's arms, and it is clear that Prescott...
...heavyweights are everybody's heroes, with their tomato-red Cadillacs and gold-lamè sport coats, their 18-in. biceps and sledgehammer fists. When they fight, the whole world watches. So what happens? One punch, and it's goodbye Charley, let's do this again next year. It doesn't even seem to matter where the punch lands: Cassius Clay taps Sonny Listen on the arm, and Sonny takes the pipe sitting on his stool...
...made court clerks abolish the usual $25 filing fee. At times he writes like a judge: "This breathes of the appellate court's wrath at their lower court brethren." At times he hectors uncooperative court clerks: "You are not the court. You are not God. You are just Charley Limpus." Always he seems more hep on relevant new decisions than many judges. "He's a brilliant man," says Orange County Public Defender W. D. Frederick Jr. "His grasp of case law is phenomenal...
...will captain a team that will lose one standout attackman, Lou Williams, four midfielders including Captain Peter Wood and All-American candidate Tink Gunnoe, plus defenseman Charley Kessler, from this year's squad. The Crimson posted a final record of 11-3, and was 4-2 in Ivy play. Only an opening-game loss to Rutgers, a one-point defeat at the hands of Princeton, and the loss to Yale marred the record...
Captain Peter Wood was out of action with a charley horse and the substitutes played most of the fourth quarter, but it didn't matter. The win was easy...