Now I live in California, a continent away from the Shirleys, and it is a lonely place for someone who needs new carpet.
Unfortunately, I didn't look like Natalie, Jane or Sophia and I didn't have the talents of Bette or Shirley -- it turned out I really was a writer.
Twenty-three years later, she told The New York Sun, "If anybody can break my record, I want Shirley May to do it".
Flame retardant property of the modified cotton fabric was studied by the Shirley Manual Flammability Tester and it was found that the incorporation of phosphorus and nitrogen together exerts a synergistic effect in imparting flame retarding property to the fabric.
It ends in Shirley, Croydon.
Her Off Broadway debut, it starts previews on Wednesday and opens June 4 at Atlantic Stage 2. The academic acropolis in this crunchy-granola world is called Shirley State College in Shirley, Vt., but it's not shy about evoking Amherst, Mass., where Ms. Baker, 27, grew up, or Keene State College in New Hampshire, where her mother teaches now.
Dame Shirley said that should be the end of it and was furious when the audit commission, well advised (as it turned out yesterday) by lawyer Tony Childs, was determined to take the case to the House of Lords.
It was a tie between Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables and Arrietty from The Borrowers; I loved them both so much I think I absorbed them unintentionally and Harriet is the end result.
"Tell her it was good enough for ROCK HUDSON, SHIRLEY MacLAINE and DORIS DAY".
He added that when an American sprinter wins a gold medal at the Olympics, "compared to when Marlon Shirley wins the gold medal in the Paralympics, commercially, it's a hell of a lot greater".
