Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Shakespeare to Science, including the assurance that: "Darwin returned to Europe and wrote a book called Sartor Resartus which definitely established the descent of mankind from the avoirdupois apes," and a careful account of how Shakesbur (or Shaksper, Shicksper, Shagsber, or S.) wrote Henry V with assistance from Ben Jonson, Massinger, Marlowe and a little help from Fletcher. There is a section of international documents, summing up other people's prophecies about the next war, the oscillations of the French cabinet, weekly cable news, and tourists' conversation upon reaching home...
Meagre despatches announced last week that Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim, recently surrendered famed "Sultan" of the Riff (TIME, June 7), will be "exiled honorably but without favors or hardships on the island of Madagascar" by his Franco-Spanish conquerors...
Count Bruga-Ben Hecht ($2). Grimy but exuberant...
COUNT BRUGA - Ben Hecht- Boni & Liveright ($2). Author Hecht is a rowdy. Often he is also a wit; sometimes, a philosopher. He has lavished all three talents on this latest volume, and if you cannot stand rowdies, do not read it. If you can stand them, you are certain to double up now and again over the libidinous antics of Jules Ganz, alias the "Count" (for whom, it is said, Author Hecht's friend and playmate, Poet Maxwell Bodenheim, furnished a vague original...
...Imperial, Cal., (below sealevel) Mrs. Ben Hulse begged neighbors and passersby for news of Florentine, a common land turtle, who had been tied by Mrs. Hulse in the Hulse back yard, grown restless despite lavish care, been seen last proceeding toward the Mexican border...