Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood two years ago one Buell Patrick Abbott set out to become a famed cinemactor. He began as an extra, got few jobs, had ample time to improve his golf...
Last summer Buell Patrick Abbott won the Western Public Links championship, last winter outplayed top-notch U. S. professionals when he took the Southern California Open. His career in cinema stood still...
...Princeton Alumni Weekly, last week compiled for Forum & Century a list of U. S. kudos champions and a list of outstanding U. S. citizens as yet unhonored. Then he invited readers to draw their own conclusions. Champions were Nicholas Murray Butler (34), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27), the New York Times's speechmaker, John Huston Finley (27). Dorothy Dix is an honorary Doctor of Letters and Marion Sayle Taylor (the "Voice of Experience") an honorary Doctor of Laws...
...Harkness office last week secretaries shooed away newshawks with their employer's rigid formula: Edward S. Harkness does not talk to the Press. But Lawrenceville's enthusiastic young Headmaster Allan Vanderhoeft Heely, who came from Andover two years ago to succeed the late Mather Almon ("The Bott") Abbott, told a story calculated to excite the envy of any U. S. educator. Benefactor Harkness had given $7,000,000 to Exeter for a Conference Plan, besides budgetary lifts to Andover, Hill, Choate. He had not thought of Lawrenceville until Headmaster Heely, after plotting unsuccessfully to get an introduction, seized...
Already kudized by Harvard but invited back for good measure were President-emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Philosopher John Dewey, Physicists Albert Einstein and Robert Andrews Millikan...