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...would have visited that worthy, but his attire was so disarranged by a jar of slops flung from an upper window that he betook himself instead to Vauxhall, and rested in a quiet corner of the garden, seeing but unseen. This morning he will ascertain the views of Professor Abbott on the culture of Anne's reign...
...Reign of Anne," Professor Abbott, Emerson...
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...
...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...
...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...