Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JOHN BROWN'S BODY-Stephen Vincent Benét-Doubleday Doran...
...Poem. Rustic Homer and urban Virgil used roundly to invoke the muses before composing an epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two oceans in her medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From...
Elected. Murray Hulbert, Manhattan politician, onetime (1915-19) U. S. Representative, to be Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and Ben A. Ruffin, of Richmond, Va., to be president of Lions International...
Mightily of a twitter were the twelve warlike princes of Yemen and their potent father, the Imam Yahya ben Muhammad ben Hamid al Din. Over coffee brewed from the peerless beans of Menakha, and with the eight gates of the Imam's capital barred for the night, a conference took place in deadly secrecy between Plenipotentiary and Potentate...
VOLPONE-The Theatre Guild's riotous revision of Ben Jonson's farce, whose central figure is notable for his lecherous rapacity (TIME, April...