Word: adair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Edith Deidre Bass. 19, daughter of New Hampshire's Governor Robert Perkins Bass; and Frank Adair Bonsai Jr., 28, Baltimore socialite and gentleman jockey...
Young Tommy Adair is a purebred English bulldog, son of a grand champion. Some day he may know the feel of smooth green carpet under his feet, the glare of arc lights, the eyeing of solemn experts who may award him ribbons and medals for his form, coat, stance, carriage. But already he has won a prize-in Ocean City, N. J. one day last week-simply for being so appallingly, truculently ugly...
Some 5,000 residents and Easter visitors watched Tommy Adair and 149 other less well-bred dogs straggle crookedly down the resort city's wide boardwalk. An American Legion band blared martially while the dogs tugged or were tugged by small owners who had entered them in Ocean City's second annual Mutt Show. Proudly heading the line ambled an ingratiating, yellowish mongrel named Hobo Ocean City who makes the boardwalk his year-round home. Barred from competition because he was champion Mutt last year, he was chosen host this year...
Best Years is a drab little play about a woman who spends the best years of her life taking care of a neurotic mother when she might be enjoying the gayety of a honeymoon in Siberia. So strong is the hold of Mrs. Davis (Jean Adair) on her daughter Cora (Katherine Alexander) that Fred Barton (Harvey Stephens) has to do his courting under her watchful eye. When Cora starts for a dance with him Mrs. Davis collapses in the footlights. During the entire third act Mrs. Davis lies unconscious on a sofa in full view of the audience while other...
...Frank Earl Adair, editor of the homage-book, describes his master thus...