Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brewers rapped 15 hits, including a three-run homer by Paul Householder and a solo shot by Dale Sveum. Ernest Riles' RBI single broke an 8-8 tie in the seventh and Householder homered later in the inning...
...memoirs Guinness does not talk enough about himself. The book is loosely arranged in chapters dealing with a theme or a person; one on his childhood, one on Edith Sitwell, one on Tony Guthrie, etc. Chronology is left to necessity, so an instant after Guinness meets Ernest Milton he is attending his funeral. Some things are left completely in the dark; after 225 pages of reminiscence we still don't know how he met his wife, or what he even sees...
Many of the characters populating the life of Alec Guinness you probably never have heard of; some, like Bernard Shaw or Ernest Hemingway, you probably know too much about already. The strengths of this very pleasant book lie in its private perspective on the lives of the men and women we know only as images in films. It is fascinating to know, for example, that Ralph Richardson was obsessed with being mistaken for John Gielgud, and that he once without warning socked Guinness in the jaw. "Who can one hit," he shouted, "if not one's friends...
...Ernest Riles' two-run homer and a roof-top blast by Rob Deer powered the Milwaukee Brewers to a 5-3 victory Monday over Tom Seaver and the Chicago White Sox in their American League opener...
Reagan has addressed veterans, farmers, astronauts, high schools and more backwater fundamentalist meetings than Rev. Ernest Angely. But will he talk to America's oldest center of higher education? Is it really impossible for Reagan to schedule a day for us in between visits to Camp David and Rancho Cielo...