Word: ben
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Jones boys (Jimmy and father Ben) were spreading their horsepower around a bit. Jimmy took Citation down to Camden, N.J., to run in the $50,000-added Jersey Stakes. Father Ben was back at Belmont Park saddling Coaltown in the $25,000-added Withers Stakes...
Mother Hubbard is a gentle creature-all she does is to furnish son Ben with a blackmailing stranglehold on his tyrannical father. Son Oscar is just a born ninny; he tries hard to be a stinker but he hasn't the talent. But the other three would make a quarrelsome day in a bear pit look insipid. Now & then, as they shift grips on each other and set-to all over again, their unmitigated hellishness comes very near absurdity. But they are never undramatic...
...stocky man with a halo of electric white hair, dressed in a light blue suit and tie and white shirt, fiddled nervously with his glasses and papers, looked frequently at his watch. On the dot of 4 p.m., David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of the Jewish state, banged the table with his fist and began to read. As he reached the words proclaiming "the establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called Israel,"* the audience cheered and wept. In the two hours that remained before sundown, when the Jewish Sabbath would begin, Tel Aviv's jubilant...
Then Jockey Al Snider, Citation's rider, went fishing off the Florida Keys and was drowned. Ben was on the lookout for a jockey to ride his wonder horse in the Derby. This time it was Eddie Arcaro who made the phone call. Al Snider had been one of Arcaro's best friends; his widow got a share of Eddie's Derby winnings...
...Alchemist (by Ben Jonson; produced by the New York City Theatre Company) is an almost ostentatiously neglected comic masterpiece. It could, without doubt, be shorter. But 300 years after it was written and long after alchemy† went out of fashion, the play still teems with hard, bawdy, farcical fun; still gives that well-mated couple, greed and gullibility, a handsome thrashing; still rushes ahead with a plot that the great Samuel Taylor Coleridge adjudged "one of the three most perfect" in literature...