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- proper noun A patronymic
surname .
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In "Lombardi," which opened Thursday night at Circle in the Square Theatre, Nobbs is a fairly green Look magazine writer who finds the man he's been assigned to cover is not as slavishly devoted to the public's right to know as he is.
Theater review: 'Time Stands Still' and 'Lombardi' on Broadway Peter Marks 2010
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Other two Englishmen had settled amongst them; one of them, called Nobbs, a low-bred, illiterate man, a self-constituted missionary, who was endeavoring to supersede
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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(And for no apparent reason, we have a second character appear named "Nobbs," who feels like a joke that never quite happens.)
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Cooper and Carnahan, Close 'Nobbs' and 'Rapunzel' Gets a New Title RopeofSilicon. com - ...
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Cooper and Carnahan, Close 'Nobbs' and 'Rapunzel' Gets a New Title RopeofSilicon. com - ...
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(And for no apparent reason, we have a second character appear named "Nobbs," who feels like a joke that never quite happens.)
SF Signal 2010
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"I've kept out of Mis 'Nobbs's reach thus far, but
Polly and the Princess Emma C. Dowd
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Trailing her are Viola Davis, for her incendiary performance in civil rights drama The Help; Michelle Williams, for another biopic, My Week with Marilyn, and Glen Close, whose turn as a cross-dressing 19th century Irish butler in Albert Nobbs is currently quoted at 6/1.
Meryl Streep wins award for Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady 2011
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Nobbs hasn't much to do, but the three players (which also includes Robert Christopher Riley as Dave Robinson) are appealing in their all too brief turns.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Lombardi" Scores A Field Goal; "La Bete" Better For Actors Michael Giltz 2010
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We witness a rising reporter named Michael McCormick (Keith Nobbs) who's been assigned to write a profile about the Green Bay coach for Look magazine.
Danny Groner: Lombardi Is About More Than Football Danny Groner 2010
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