Word: abell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story relates the adventures of a famed actress (Muriel Kirkland of Strictly Dishonorable and The Greeks Had a Word for It) who is pursued by the richest merchant in all Hungary (Ernest Glendenning) and a poor young engineer (Walter Abel). It takes four padded scenes, in which sub-characters pop in and out with the sombre precision of a cuckoo clock, and the conclusive click of a train gate to force the right pair into each other's arms...
Engaged. Lady May Cambridge, daughter of the Earl & Countess of Athlone, niece of Queen Mary of England; and one Henry Abel Smith, captain of the Royal Horse Guards, Lady May's father's aide while he was Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. Rumor exploded: that Lady May Cambridge would marry the Prince of Wales...
Members of the club elected the following men as officers: president, Herbert Cranswick Cameron '31, of Medford; secretary, Henry Thomas Conway '32, of Lowell; senior representative, William Warner Jeanes '31, of Villanova, Pennsylvania; junior representative, Abel Jacob Bates '32, of Webster. A sophomore representatives will make up an executive council...
...Sash family, when the Civil War was getting itself ready. When fighting began, there were Sashes in both armies. Wickliffe Sash, a captain in Morgan's raiders, got home for the last time to see his fiancee, found her in love with a Yankee officer. Elisha Abel, Wickliffe's cousin, was luckier. A Federal major, he came unscathed through the fighting in Tennessee, brought home a pretty wife to his Kentucky estate...
When John Dixon Folkes, expatriate, half-French, came to Kentucky in 1890 to visit his father's family, he was homesick for Paris. But he was only 17, and Susan Abel was pretty. When she let him seduce her he was going to let it go at that. But then old Gabriel, direct descendant of Hunter Gabriel, began to tell him some of the family history. By the time the old man finished, young John decided to marry the girl, stay in Kentucky...