Word: abigail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sarah did indeed reign at court as Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes, Keeper of the Privy Purse. Soon, Arnie's entourage swarmed with Sarah's relations, including cousin Abigail Hill, a penniless gentlewoman who had sunk to the role of "dust broom" (as Sarah put it) to a titled lady. What happened next seems, as Author Kronenberger says, "too much in the flashy traditions of the theater to have happened in real life." Slowly, week by week, Abigail, the dowdy waif, replaced Sarah as the dowdy Queen's bosom friend-largely because Sarah...
...letter seemed unusual and properly titillating, so Lovelorn Columnist Abigail Van Buren ran it routinely in her syndicated column. Dear Abby...
...Columnist Abigail Van Buren a wife complained about her moonlighting husband, who was "gone all day and three or four nights a week; leaving the whole responsibility of raising the family on the mother. When the man is home nobody dares to open a mouth because he is tired and grouchy. If these men would get used to living on one paycheck and spend more time with their families everyone would be better off." Abby agreed...
Female Support: Nancy Curtis, as the Housekeeper in "Doctor's Dilemma"; Abigail Sugarman, as Tamora in "Titus...
...plays the vile Moor, Aaron, with stunning force. Pride and pure villainy radiate from his posture and face, and his voice grasps Shakesperean lines with brilliant skill. James Matisoff, playing the Emperor is impressively curt, hoarse, and pouting. Michael Sugarman makes a most fitting brother to the emperor, but Abigail Sugarman is not always at ease in the crucial role of the emperor's vengeful wife. Her face and voice do outstanding work for her difficult part, but her gestures and postures float detachedly or rigidly. As Lavinia, daughter to Titus, Susan Howe is intense and haunting. After her famous...