Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MOHAMMED BEN ABD-EL-KRIM...
Died. Alfred Curtis Knox, 78, for 22 years Vice President of the Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh, brother of onetime Senator Philander C. Knox; at Ben Avon, Pa., after a lingering illness...
...began with the nebular hypothesis and ended with prohibition; others cantered with a Eugene Fieldian humor; still others coldly glowed with the passion-weary detachment of a woman who has had her fill of life and its motley follies. Critic-Poet Louis Untermeyer chortled with elation. Poet William Rose Benét wrote a preface. The English Society of Authors and Playwrights (of which Thomas Hardy is President) asked Nathalia Crane to join them...
...individual performances would be merely to write a catalogue of praise for each character. Miss May Collins' "Lady Teazle" was a delightfully fresh and vivacious piece of work, and one of real power in the dramatic movements. Sir Peter Teazle by O. P. Heggle, and Sir Oliver by Mr. Ben Field were also particularly notable; and among the minor parts Mr. De Angelis, as Moses, was the best stage Jew we have ever seen, bar none. James Dale as Joseph Surface was oily enough and hypocritical enough to damn forever the "man of sentiment", perhaps too much so to make...
Gifts. President Green presented the usual gifts to visiting delegates from abroad: watches to Arthur A. Purcell of Great Britain, Donald Dear of Canada and Roberto Haberman of Mexico; diamond stickpins to Ben Smith of Great Britain and Canuto Varges of Mexico; a diamond lavalliere to Mrs. Donald Dear...