Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Denied an automobile driver's license when he flunked his examination last year, granted one when he passed a second examination a month later (TIME. Oct. 5), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 80, suffered a fractured nose and possible fractured arm in Plymouth, Mass.. when his auto, which he was driving from Boston to Cape Cod, collided with another...
...like my doing it) but already there has crept into the newspapers some word of what he has been doing for his alma mater and I think it is better to give you the facts correctly than have them possibly seep into your office somewhat distorted. N. C. ABBOTT Superintendent...
...Nicholas Murray Butler, who received his 35th honorary degree last winter from Trujillo University in San Domingo, appeared to be satisfied. Nor were there any degrees in prospect last week for the New York Times's commencement-speaking Editor John Huston Finley (30), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27). In their stead 1937 had produced many a new public face...
...film industry, he knows that legitimate show business is not very big business, not even business. It is a gamble for all concerned and even the producer does not stand to make money in very large quantities. Gilbert Miller is delighted when Tovarich grosses $15,000 a week. George Abbott is lucky to get $12,000 out of Brother Rat. The only real money in show business comes occasionally from Hollywood, when a Goldwyn offers $160,000 for a Dodsworth or Columbia gets You Can't Take It With...
Room Service (by John Murray & Allen Boretz; George Abbott, producer) does for shoestring theatrical producing what Producer Abbott's Boy Meets Girl did for Hollywood and his Three Men On A Horse did for horse racing. It pumps its subject full of fun in veterinary doses. Than this pinchbeck legend of Longacre Square, there is no funnier show in town...