Word: hubbarded
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...great figures of the 19th Century were just Tyrone Power in period costume. Alexander Graham Bell turns out to be Don Ameche without a haircut. However, Loretta Young, who is getting to be almost as much of an historical figure as Tyrone Power, appears satisfactorily as Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, a deaf girl who inspired Bell to continue with his invention and not resume his teaching of elocution...
Died. Annabel Hubbard Phelps, 74, wife of Yale's Professor-Emeritus William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps; of apoplexy; in New Haven. Full of fire, fun and hospitality, Mrs. Phelps was almost as famed in Yale's social life as her husband. An experienced housewife, she always kept ten chickens in the icebox...
...Frank Hubbard looks like number one sprint man now that John White, former New Jersey schoolboy flash, has deserted track for spring football...
...Oscar Hubbard (Carl Benton Reid) is mean, tightlipped, greedy; his brother Ben (Charles Dingle) shrewder, more capable, more sardonic; their sister Regina (Tallulah Bankhead) grandly and coldly ambitious for wealth, power, position. The trio's business schemes require the financial help of Regina's dying husband; and, sick of their vulpine methods, he refuses it. Out of this deadlock springs powerful drama of intramural conspiring and double-crossing, theft and virtual murder...
Playwright Hellman describes the Hubbards as people who "eat the earth." But she has not made them all of one piece: between the crude short-changer Oscar and his greatly aspiring sister is the difference between a rat and an eagle. Not instinctive, but icily calculating, is their family sense: the same greed which divides them among themselves unites them against others. Ben Hubbard perceives they are less a family than part of a race -a race of sharp-toothed, flourishing little foxes for whom the turning century promises a world of plunder...