Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief worry at the moment is a fullback. With Waldstein and Whittler on the sidelines the berth has gone to Abbott, who a week ago was on the third team. Whether he will measure up in other departments is a most point, but it is quite clear that he can't replace Waldstein as a kicker. Nor can anyone else, and with the hopes of Waldstein being ready to play for any length of time rather dim, this dilemma may cause considerable trouble...
...Freshman booters journeyed to Exeter only to be turned back 2 to 1 by the Exonians. Cal Calhoun scored the Crimson goal, while Abbott and Palmer scored for the home team...
...Lawyer (by Richard Maibaum & Harry Clork; produced by George Abbott) is one of those athletic farces which have the delicacy of a subpoena and the subtlety of an alarm clock. A firm of young lawyers ready for the poorhouse ropes in a millionaire playboy overripe for the asylum. As the gilded nitwit is continuously prankish-he pours gin into milk bottles, steals peek-machines from penny arcades, drives his car up & down freight elevators, ties up girls on billiard tables-the firm of Lee, Russo & O'Rourke enjoys a continuous revenue, for a time. Then the screwball Tom (Eddie...
...time, and the pin boys are much too slow in setting them up again. The show has laughs, but never (as a farce must) piles up its laughter; everybody works a little too hard, tries to be a little too crazy. It's the old George Abbott formula minus the old George Abbott form: quite a drop from the headlong days of Three Men on a Horse and Room Service, when in the world of farce, the Abbotts spoke only...
...when the Neutrality Act stopped the export of airplanes it did not stop the export of several other necessities of war-necessities that are life savers instead of life takers. Among them are: Pharmaceuticals (big makers: Parke, Davis & Co., Abbott Laboratories), surgical dressings (big makers: Johnson & Johnson, the Kendall Co.), gas masks (big maker: Mine Safety Appliances Co.),parachutes (world's biggest maker: Irving Air Chute...