Word: benchleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YEARS IN A QUANDARY-Robert Benchley-Harper ($2.50). These 105 brief Benchleys stand as incontrovertible proof of the wide range of a hard-pressed humorist's fancy...
Succeeding Gordon Robertson '36 as chairman is C. Colmery Gibson '37, editor of the CRIMSON; and replacing Gibson as secretary and treasurer is Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, of the Lampoon...
Born in New Rochelle, N. Y. 40 years ago, lanky Robert Sherwood went to War with the Black Watch, returned to Harvard, where his wounds and gassing did not prevent him from editing the Lampoon with such success that Vanity Fair hired him as co-editor with Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. Hopeful contributors to Life recall the macabre, unsmiling laugh, the generous good nature with which from 1920 to 1928 Editor Sherwood personally received their effusions. When he wrote The Road to Rome, Sherwood quit journalism for good. He published in Variety last week a notice that Harry...
...popular lecturer, Santayana's courses became famed. His students included T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Walter Lippmann, Bronson Cutting, Felix Frankfurter. Robert Benchley attended his classes, said that he could not understand the words but that the music fascinated him. Continuing to live in isolation, Santayana was commonly considered snobbish. Disliking Boston society, he called it "a Harvard faculty meeting without any business." Although he enjoyed teaching, described it as "a delightful paternal art," he admitted disliking ''the taste of academic straw," was ironically amused when President Lowell declared that he was not interested in the degree...
...Robert Benchley as an inebriated traveller is so pleasantly silly that he almost walks off with the movie. He has never been funnier and contributes just the touch needed to make China Seas a swell show instead of a mere tour do force in melodrama...