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...hard-to-reach farmers at a time to shake friendly Humphrey-Freeman- McCarthy hands and hear out criticisms of Republican Ezra Benson (but rarely of respected Ed Thye) in one sitting. ¶ Put on new-style women's tours in which the wives-Muriel Humphrey, Jane Freeman and Abigail McCarthy, old friends, old political pros-went on two-to-three-day outstate swings, shook more hands, won women's votes. ¶ Backed up the campaign teams by unifying all campaign staffs, coordinating congressional candidates and county chairmen, setting up adjoining headquarters in St. Paul's dingy Capri...
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...