Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Diana Gumming, daughter of Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming of the Public Health Service; and Manville Kendrick, son of Senator John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming; in Washington. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge was among the guests...
...Benjamin Hill & Co.: Samuel S. Fontaine, onetime cub reporter under the late great Col. Henry Watterson; for more than 25 years Financial Editor of the New York World...
Late in November Lieut. Benjamin ("Benny the Gas Boy") Mendez, U. S.-trained chief pilot of Colombia's air service, rose from the field at Rockaway Naval Air Station, L. I., to fly 4,600 miles to Bogota, capital of Colombia (TIME, Dec. 24). He expected to take four days. Last week he arrived, in another plane. He had been to Jacksonville. Havana. Puerto Barrios, Colon, Cartagena. Barranquilla, Girardot. He had torpedoed into the water at Colon, blasted into a tree at Girardot. After the first eight days he was 2.350 miles from his starting point. After the next...
...been furnishing you for the most part with rationalizations. If you ask me why abnormal psychology is at Harvard, perhaps the true answer, is that; "we're here because we're here". And if you ask me for what good are we, I might retort in the words of Benjamin Franklin: "What good is a new born babe?" an "enfant terrible" though...
...hairy hand comes out of a wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted this adaptation of one of Owen Davis' less terrifying plays was mainly brought about by Director Benjamin Christensen who gave a trite plot (heirs looking for money in a millionaire's mansion) better treatment than it deserved...