Word: benchleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in Savannah, Ga., has lived abroad, has sandy hair. When he was 11, Aiken saw his father kill his mother and then commit suicide. He was Class Poet (1911) at Harvard, among a generation that included Poets Thomas Stearns Eliot, the late Alan Seeger, Journalists Walter Lippmann, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, the late Radical John Reed. Few graduates stick to their undergraduate determination to be a man of letters: Aiken did. Last year, after reaping the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems, he took his wife and three children (John, Jane, Joan) to live permanently in England. Nearsighted, silent...
...Harris' unwholesome moral seems to be that it really made no difference with whom his heroine mated, so long as she was bedded. Spectators who are revolted by the "morning after" scene which follows the hasty nuptials and terminates the play, can only wonder, as Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley once did: "Don't children ever play games any more...
...main occupation of stage people, although they are always meeting writers, newspaper men, and that sort of thing. You see, the speak-easy has become a sort of club, and you go to certain places and there you always meet certain people. At one place you see Robert Benchley who is incidentally the hard- est working man in New York, and all of that crowd, and at another there is George Jean Nathan and his gang. The staff of 'The New Yorker' has its hang-out as well as 'Life' and 'Judge' and 'Time'. It is really the backbone...
...them have already had a life of their own: the late famed Whoops Sisters, who appeared four years ago in Manhattan's New Yorker. These two disreputable old harridans, whooping with unseemly mirth at rowdy subtleties, made Artist Arno's reputation. Says Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley, introducing this latest book of Arno drawings: "When they [the Whoops Sisters] bounded, with their muffs and horrid hats, from the pages of the New Yorker, 50 years of picturized joking in this country toppled over with a crash." Now Peter Arno is a New Yorker mainstay, Manhattan's caricaturist...
...TREASURER'S REPORT AND OTHER ASPECTS OF COMMUNITY SINGING--Benchley (Harpers...