Word: abell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...household designers and manufacturers contributing to the show, only a score had European addresses, though some (e.g., Denmark's Jens Risom and Abel Sorenson) had learned furniture-making on the continent before setting up shop...
...course of filming a horse opera, 20th Century-Fox was forced to call in a paleface archery expert named Abel Lewis to teach 35 Indians how to use bows & arrows...
...trip was inspired and partly financed by wealthy Blevins Davis, patron of the ballet and board member of the American National Theater and Academy. The 26-member troupe, with ANTA Executive Secretary Robert Breen playing Hamlet, was bolstered with some veteran Broadway talent: Aline MacMahon as the Queen, Walter Abel as the King, Clarence Derwent as Polonius. But the production, geared for ten outdoor performances in the castle's great courtyard, was born in Abingdon...
When Jean Abel Gros (pronounced grow) first saw the famed pre-Christmas parade of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Inc. 13 years ago, he got an idea. A showman with a small boy's taste for shows, Jean Gros, 54, had spent years building up a marionette road-show business. He had lost it all staging a grand opera with puppets (75 singers were hidden behind the curtain). He decided that if he could get huge balloon figures like Macy's, and somehow design them to fit under trolley wires, he could stage such parades...
...some ways, we are worse off than we were a century ago, said Dr. Abel Wolman, professor of sanitary engineering at Johns Hopkins, and our boasted progress in health is not as great as many like to think. There is hardly a stream in the U.S. that is not more polluted than it was 100 years ago, and, said Dr. Wolman, "there is hardly a city in Massachusetts or one in the rest of the U.S. in which the conditions of housing are not essentially worse than those, at which the Shattuck report * directed severe criticism." In Washington...