Word: benchley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most successful traditions fostered by Professor Murdock was the annual Christmas reading, which Professor Hoadley intends to perpetuate. The evening was invariably begun with an excerpt from the Gospel according to St. Luke, but before long "Ken" launched into long quotations from Dorothy Parker and Bob Benchley, whose works, along with those of P.G. Wodehouse, lined his library shelves...
...didn't get away from "The Get-Away," which features plenty of good close-ups of Tommy guns and a moral as big as a signboard: Don't rob defense payrolls. Personally, we preferred Bob Benchley's brand of "Crime Control...
...list of students with whom "Charlie" was acquainted reads like a Who's Who. Franklin Roosevelt, for instance, and "all his dam kids." Then there is Leverett Saltonstall, Felix Frankfurter, Robert Benchley, Arthur Holcombe, Joe Kennedy, Archy Davison, and "Jim" Conant...
...Millionairess. Said he: "I have a life work-one hit after another- only ready for me to make." The Reluctant Dragon (Disney-RKO-Radio) is billed as Walt Disney's fourth full-length cartoon movie. Actually, it is two and a half Disney shorts with Comic Robert Benchley and a conducted tour through the Disney works thrown in for good measure. Unlike its renowned predecessors (Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia} it does not vastly expand the wonderful dreamworld which has flowed for 13 years from the inspired cartoonist's imagination...
Through the eyes of Mr. Benchley, as he stumbles through the Disney plant, Disneyacs can peek briefly into the bag of goodies in store for them. There are glimpses of a forthcoming full-length cartoon about a baby circus elephant named Dumbo whose enormous ears mortify him to tears until he becomes an overnight sensation by learning to fly with them; of another full-lengther, Bambi, and its leading man, a little white-tailed fawn; of Donald Duck down on the farm...