Word: hitching
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Benny realize that his forte was ingratiating patter. Then, while appearing in a revue designed to step up recruiting and make money for the Navy, he cut loose with a couple of gags, got such a hand that he resolved to become a monologuist. During his hitch in the Navy, Benny went under his real name, Benjamin Kubelsky. After the war he changed to Ben K. Benny, adopted his present name when people began to confuse Ben K. Benny with a fiddler named Ben Bernie. During the '20s Benny went onward & upward without much fuss or muss. He drifted...
...Father's headquarters were in town, and there he preached on Sunday morning. Then, after dinner with one of his members (he quickly learned which sisters were the best cooks), he would hitch up his horse and go to one of the country charges for an afternoon sermon, returning to town for an evening service. During the week he had sermons to write, babies to baptize, sickbeds to sit beside, midweek prayer meetings to lead, couples to marry, people to bury, studying to do, men's and women's organizations to direct, young people to guide...
Better known in both Central and North America was urbane, greying, 57-year-old Candidate Alfaro. Minister to the U. S. from 1922 to 1936-except for a two-year hitch in domestic politics-Career Man Alfaro has served on several Pan-American committees, has picked up decorations from Peru, Venezuela, France. As President pro tem after Rebel Arias' coup, he balanced the budget, turned the National Bank deficit into a credit. With the support of the Leftist Liberals he set out to crack the N. R. P., which has dominated Panama's politics since...
...Finland Station is a shabby, grey and pink stucco building. Here trains from free Finland arrive in Leningrad. Here, on the night of April 16, 1917, arrived Vladimir Hitch Lenin. He was late: like most Russian trains, even the train bringing Lenin to the Revolution was not on time...
...great bulk of the registration was run off in the morning, according to the proctors in Memorial Hall, and even at the most crowded times of day the entire proceedings went off without a hitch...