Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Owner of the scraggliest beard in Congress, George Tinkham has been stalking Roosevelt for nine years, hating the White House and all its works, hating the British as only an oldtime Yankee can, smelling Benedict Arnold in the Destroyer Deal, Lend-Lease, the Atlantic Charter; declaring always for strict neutrality, never thundering against Germans or Japs...
Last week, as the Vanderbilt tournament progressed in tick-tock silence, it began to look as if Mrs. Sobel's sharp red nails would scoop in the most important championship of all. Playing with three young Manhattanites (Sam Fry Jr., Benedict Jarmel and 27-year-old George Rapee), her Cavendish Club team survived the qualifying rounds and knock-out matches (116 boards), came up to the final the favorite. The other finalist was the New York Bridge Whist Club (Lee Hazen, Richard L. Frey, S. M. Stayman...
Announcing the start of the Liberal Union Freshman Book Drive, Burton Benedict '45 issued a plea to all Yardlings to give their extra books and magazines to the U.S.O...
Other nonretailing Gimbels: Bernard's nephews Lee Adam, who became a broker and met death in an unexplained fall from the ninth floor of the Yale Club; Louis, who resigned to enter Wall Street, is now with hops brokers S. S. Steiner & Co.; and Benedict, present boss of WIP, who married and divorced a Wampus baby star...
Never in the annals of U.S. jurisprudence has there been such a trial as the Devil v. Jabez Stone. Presiding judge is the renowned Justice Hathorne, who hanged the Salem witches. On the jury sit twelve famed American dastards-among them Traitor Benedict Arnold; Simon Girty, who helped the Indians burn white settlers. The court, straight from Hell, is packed in favor of the plaintiff...