Word: abel
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...chiefly upon satire of love, as it was then conveniently called. The Provincetown Playhouse group, which have several times more than justified their first season fanfare of intelligent plays produced for the intelligent, gave the piece a satisfactory display. Most of their usual players (Helen Freeman, Edgar Stehli, Walter Abel, E. J. Ballantine, Perry Ivins) were in the cast and accounted for themselves with even competence. Adrienne Morrison, a visitor, added a brilliant touch. It was the consensus of opinion that the piece was just well enough played to make you pine to see it with an all-star company...
...cast play it in a shuffling fashion. Edgar Stehli as the idealist, Walter Abel as the sergeant and Helen Freeman as the wife were like mushrooms nodding underground. The slight piece would make a shimmering curtain-raiser, if the cast were whipped up into playing it more smartly...
...learning and attainments is obvious enough in that he was appointed Professor of Modern Languages at the College of William and Mary. That a man should at one time or another have tended grape vines is no cause for his friends to be ashamed. The popular Abel was a stockbreeder; Abraham Lincoln functioned as ploughman; King David tended sheep-as did Ramsay Mac-Donald; Cincinnatus was twice called from the plough to the Dictatorship of -and twice returned to it; Rousseau was a son of a humble Geneva watchmaker; the famed Dr. Johnson was a son of a poor bookseller...
...Jerusalem lives Mr. Abel Pann. He paints pictures, he reads the Bible. His works are hung in the Luxembourg, the Chicago Art Museum, the National Museum of Jerusalem. His thoughts are in the Holy Land. Long has he cherished in his brain the images of the kings and prophets of his people in the old time: Absalom's body, slim as a spear, twisting from the bough on which his dark hair tangled; Moses listening rapt to the voice of God. Unlike that nameless artist who exhibited a blank canvas, declaring that it showed the Israelites Crossing...
...Bible says that, until Adam, "there was not a man to till the ground" and that Eve was "the mother of all living." Now the only recorded children of Adam and Eve are Cain and Abel. Cain slew Abel. Mr. Shipman offers the following possible theories to explain the per- petuation of the human race: 1) Cain's wife was made, like Adam, from the dust or, like Eve, from her husband's rib. But Mr. Shipman "would see something grotesque in the idea of a Cain brought up through baby hood, childhood and youth to meet...