Holbrook

[ hohl-brook ]

/ ˈhoʊl brʊk /

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Stewart H(all), 1893–1964, U.S. historian and editor.

a city on central Long Island, in SE New York.

a city in E Massachusetts.

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In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Holbrook told VOSD that many of the recommendations have been implemented or are on the path to implementation, including resources and training.
A UCSD Professor Sent a Student Porn. Here’s Why it Took a Year to Fire Him.|Ethan Coston|February 17, 2021|Voice of San Diego
Holbrook settled in New York in 1952 and found steady work on the daytime CBS soap opera “The Brighter Day” but had few other acting prospects.
Actor Hal Holbrook, indelible portrayer of Mark Twain, dies at 95|Adam Bernstein|February 2, 2021|Washington Post
Melissa Holbrook Pierson on a new book that chronicles the strange ways we try to atone for the havoc humans wreak.
Why Do We Save Some Species and Let Others Get Devastated?|Melissa Holbrook Pierson|May 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Things get messy when they fall for the same guy—dreamy photographer David (Boyd Holbrook).
Sundance It Girls Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen on ‘Very Good Girls’|Marlow Stern|January 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Trawick grew up in Holbrook, N.Y. His dad was an executive at PC Richards.
Britney Spears and Jason Trawick: He’s Her Fiancé, Manager, and Conservator|Ramin Setoodeh|September 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
[Laughs] For me, it was, “What was the worst thing you could do to Hilly Holbrook?”
The Help: An Oral History with Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Co.|Marlow Stern|January 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST
This year, she starred as the protagonist Nancy Holbrook in the remake of the 1980s horror movie A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Dragon Tattoo Actress Cast|Gina Piccalo|August 16, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Josiah Holbrook, a distinguished advocate of popular education, died, aged 65.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
We had Miss Holbrook in her place last year, and she was fine; but she got married, you know.
The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch|Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
This was long before the days of Dunbar's pollantin, Holbrook Curtis' ambrosia, adrenalin, and the modern vaccines.
The Treatment of Hay Fever|George Frederick Laidlaw
On passing into the Appleton ownership it had been enlarged and beautified and named "Holbrook Hall."
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine
It was rather the engaging manners and amiable beauty of Nina Holbrook, the daughter of the house.
Stories by American Authors, Volume 1|Various