Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manus, Manhattan waiter, had a son by his wife "Comrade Fanny." In a steamingly crowded hall, the son was christened Nikolai Lenin Manus, after which his "social-mother," Mrs. Kate Gitlow, mother of the communist leader, Ben, said these words...
...general case for marriage as a vise and a vice. Plentifully in evidence is his instinctive plumbing of the human heart, and his flair for real talk in copious draughts. But the searchlight of his realism throws up figures that are drab instead of highly colored. Jacob Ben Ami rather luxuriates in suffering. He pities himself with much fervor. Doris Keane, his costar, shows her customary sensitive discrimination, but reads her lines like the Psalms. Catherine Collins as the street walker is the one splotch of color...
...latest turnover of comeliness, Fanny Brice is characteristically diverting in several skits, and Clyde Cook, cinema buffoon and onetime Hippodrome favorite, falls about sedulously until he cracks, laughs and nearly breaks his neck. There is a new Victor Herbert ballet, and a Ben Ali Haggin tableau, lustrous and well poised, called The Duel for the sake of a change. But the underlying fabric is of the customary silks and satins...
Recently the Insular Auditor Ben F. Wright ordered payments of the fund stopped. Last week the Philippine Press Bureau, a propaganda organization maintained in Washington out of the fund, announced that in retaliation "the Filipinos are abstaining from patronizing American goods and American newspapers" and asserted that private contributions were being received which in the course of a year would aggregate not 1,000,000 but 2,000,000 pesos. If this latter is so, nobody should be dissatisfied. Other reports from the Philippines declared that the appeal for private contributions to the Independence fund had netted less than...
...Author. Maxwell Bodenheim was born in Natchez, Miss., in 1892. He has served in the Army, studied law, art His first writing was poetry (Advice, Minna and Myself, Introducing Irony). He has one other novel (Blackguard). He is at present associated with Ben Hecht (Chicago "bad man"?Time, Sept. 3) in editing the Chicago Literary Times...