Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three bitter enemies of horse-racing (W. E. Raney, onetime Attorney General of Ontario, the Honorable Newton Wesley Rowell, member of the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto, and the Rev. Ben Spence, head of the Prohibition Union) $25,000 worth of Ontario Jockey Club stock, on condition that they retain the stock for a period of years and draw dividends...
David Lloyd George: "Last week, with Dame Lloyd George and our daughter Megan, I entered a cinema. Said I as the film Ben Hur unreeled: 'I have never before watched a motion picture except at private projections in my own house...
...much of its old aristocracy. Industry progresses along with female academies. South Carolina seems to have become the "valley." Charleston, which many times defied the nation, is now content with a less vigorous aristocracy. But the real change in South Carolina has come back of the tidewater where famed Ben Tillman led a revolt of the agrarians and the "poor whites" 30 years ago. They seized both the political and industrial reins of the state. These "new" South Carolinians are described as trying to be both boosters and oldtime Southern gentlemen. The result shows itself in blatherskite politicians like...
...Abou Ben Swenson (may his wife live in peace) awoke that night from a deep dream of peace really the cider was fine. Abou had a growth of black whiskers that was ambush for a whole herd of desert nomads...
...BEN M. COHEN...