Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Propaganda"; William L. Crum, Professor of Economics, for research on "Current Economic Conditions"; Carl J. Friedrich, Professor of Government, and Michael Karpovich, Assistant Professor of History, for research on "Russian Constitutional History"; Joseph B. Hubbard, Assistant Professor of Business Economics, for research on "Bond and Preferred Stock Flotations"; and Abbott P. Usher '04, Professor of Economics, to complete research on the "Early History of Banking...
...George Abbott swiped it from Shakespeare, Shakespeare swiped it from Plautus, and Plautus swiped it from somebody else; we will take Mr. Abbott's version any day, but it is probable that Mr. Shakespeare spent a restless evening last night...
...Abbott produced, directed, and adapted the show; any fear the he runs backstage to let down the curtain may be banished, since "The Boys from Syracuse" will have a prosperous life...
Good sequence: Dr. Abbott, when his adopted daughter's boy friend accidentally shoots her in the arm, using the incident to blackmail the boy's stingy father into giving Westport a hospital...
Opening with a shot of the funeral of Dr. John Abbott in the little midwest town of Westport, A Man to Remember shifts quickly to the office where Abbott's lawyer is examining his papers, then proceeds, by means of a long cutback, to tell the story of his life, ending at the moment when the picture begins. John Abbott (Edward Ellis), prototype of thousands of other country doctors in thousands of other Westports, was a humble, hard working general practitioner, too dour to be popular with his patients, too generous to make them pay their bills. Derived from...