stanley : Idioms & Phrases


arthur stanley jefferson laurel

  • noun United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965)
    Laurel; Stan Laurel.
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erle stanley gardner

  • noun writer of detective novels featuring Perry Mason (1889-1970)
    Gardner.
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francis edgar stanley

  • noun United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)
    Stanley.
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g. stanley hall

  • noun United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)
    G. Stanley Hall; Hall.
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granville stanley hall

  • noun United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)
    G. Stanley Hall; Hall.
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henry m. stanley

  • noun Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
    Stanley; John Rowlands; Henry M. Stanley.
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sir arthur stanley eddington

  • noun English astronomer remembered for his popular elucidation of relativity theory (1882-1944)
    Eddington.
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sir henry morton stanley

  • noun Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
    Stanley; John Rowlands; Henry M. Stanley.
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stanley baldwin

  • noun English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947)
    1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley; Baldwin.
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stanley frank musial

  • noun United States baseball player (born in 1920)
    Stan Musial; Musial; Stan the Man.
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stanley kubrick

  • noun United States filmmaker (born in 1928)
    Kubrick.
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stanley smith stevens

  • noun United States psychologist and psychophysicist who proposed Stevens' power law to replace Fechner's law (1906-1973)
    Smitty Stevens; S. Smith Stevens; Stevens.
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stanley steamer

  • noun a steam-powered automobile
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william stanley jevons

  • noun English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882)
    Jevons.
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