Word: abigail
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Money & Truth. Discovered last April 27 among the papers of Royall Tyler, an unsuccessful suitor of John's daughter Abigail, in the archives of the Vermont Historical Society, the new diary contains entries from 1753 to 1758, partly overlapping the previous diary and pushing the saga of John's life back two years to his career as a Harvard sophomore. The discovery shows a younger John Adams, says L.H. Butterfield, editor in chief of the Adams Papers, and "sheds a good deal of light on the character and training of the farmer's son who became...
Twenty-five years later however, he was less tolerant of such ardor and was deeply concerned by a young Braintree lawyer's attachment to his 17-year-old daughter Abigail. "I ask not Fortune nor Favour," Adams wrote his wife from France, "but Prudence, Talents and Labor. She may go with Consent where ever she can find enough of these...
...young lawyer, Royall Tyler, met Abigail--or "Nabby," as her family called her -- in Braintree in 1782. Tyler was already known as something of a writer, and Mrs. Adams wrote her husband, "I am not acquainted with any young Gentleman whose attainments in literature are equal to his." Adams was far from taken with the idea of Tyler as a son-in-law. "I don't like the subject at all," he wrote back. "I am not looking out for a Poet, not a Professor of belle Letters... My Children will have nothing but their Liberty and the Right...
Other than the cherry tree in George Washington's backyard, the most celebrated American victims of an ax are Andrew and Abigail Borden, who were cut down in their Fall River, Mass., home on a hot summer morning in 1892. Although their daughter Lizzie was acquitted of the crime, legend-in the form of books, plays and even a ballet-has found her guilty. Last week the New York City Opera presented Lizzie again as the strong-willed woman of the legend in a striking new opera by U.S. Composer Jack Beeson...
...seaquel is even sillier than the original mocean picture-and Blood, as somebody remarked at the time, was thinner than water. But Son never lacks excitement. In rapid succession Sean 1) takes passage in a tall ship sailing from Port Royal, Jamaica, 2) falls in love with the beauteous Abigail (Alessandra Panaro), 3) runs afoul of Captain De Malagon, a nasty pirate who hated Captain Blood and is happy to loose his fury on the son and his lust on Abigail, 4) seizes the nasty pirate's ship, 5) storms a citadel, 6) frees all the slaves...