Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knows that the colleague who is to catch him would heartily like to see him dead. Somehow as he whirls, blindfold, away from his trapeze, with no net below, he has to find a way to keep the other chap from dropping him. Deft adaptation and direction by George Abbott make the little story pleasant up to this point, and the tenth-of-a-second shot of what the acrobat does next welds it into drama. Its drawbacks are Buddy Rogers' continuous ingenuousness, occasional flat lines, overacting by the "bit" characters, and the fact that its central situation is frankly...
Birthday. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, longtime (since 1909) President of Harvard; at Cambridge, Mass...
...William Abbott, J. Q. Adams, R. C. Aldrich, J. D. Allen, Jr., Stuyvesant Barry, M. S. Beeler, E. I., Belisle, A. R. Belliveau, J. A. Blanchard, 2nd, J. R. Bland, T. H. Brackett, W. L. Breese, D. L. Charlton, David Cheever, Jr., J. L. Clarke, David Cobb, B. D. Crauage, P. S. Dalton, Jr., C. D. Dillon, S. P. Duggan...
...included Heywood Broun '10, John Mason Brown '23, William Merriam Chadbourne '00, Owen Gould Davis '92, Robert Edmond Jones '10, Walter Pritchard Eaton '00, Kenneth MacGowan '11, Lee Simonson '09, and Maurice Wertheim '06, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana '03, Gilbert Vivian Seldes '14, Rudolf Protas Berle '14, George Francis Abbott '12, Lewis Beach '13, William Harris '19, Sydney Coe Howard, and Robert Ittell...
...Fogg Art Museum to discuss their differences. The seminar was held under the auspices of the Calvert Round Table, an organization founded "to remove religious prejudice, and to foster among all our people respect for each other's sincere convictions, mutual confidence and good will." Speakers were President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, Rabbi Harry Levi of Boston's Temple Israel, Rev. Father Michael J. Ahern, S. J., of Weston College. Among conclusions reached by the seminar were: "That . . . sincere differences are matters of conscience between the individual soul and its creator, and, therefore, are entitled...