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Word: abbott (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heat Lightning (by George Abbott & Leon Abrams; Abbott & Dunning, producers). George Abbott can collaborate on good plays (Broadway, Coquette) as well as bad ones (Lilly Turner). His current production, neither good nor bad, is laid in a filling station on the edge of a U. S. desert. Peddling gas and oil to itinerant Mexicans, Reno divorcers, old folks on their way to die in the elephant valley of California, is the business of Olga (Jean Dixon, minus the acerbity so brilliantly displayed in Once in a Lifetime) and her young sister Myra. Surprised and shocked is Olga when her sinister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 25, 1933 | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...Elected. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, retiring president of Harvard: to be chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, succeeding the late Dr. John Grier Hibben, president-emeritus of Princeton; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...years I have bred, fed and sold thousands of spotted pigs from coast to coast. In the live stock world there is a slogan: "Mrs. Conrad has spotted the United States," and I have been the only president of a live stock record in this country. This misguided man Abbott, who, on my birth day, June 5, maligned my sex must not be very busy; therefore in these times of lowered prices, I feel most sympathetic, also charitably inclined towards men of this class. So if Abbott will come over to my ranch I will make him a gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1933 | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

...have long intended to pop this question but it took "Husband Abbott's" challenge to conquer my procrastination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1933 | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

Divorced. Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 62, founder-publisher of Chicago Defender, Negro weekly, and Abbott's Monthly; by Helen Thornton Abbott, circa 36 (TIME, June 26). By a property settlement Mrs. Abbott received $50,000, silverware, the family Pierce Arrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 3, 1933 | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

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