Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hallway of a lodging-house and gave a snarl. So ferocious was this snarl that Mrs. Dominic Spirito & two offspring, Mrs. Hugo Hoffman & two offspring, scurried quickly to their rooms, from the half opened doors of which they peeped down at the mongrel with frightened faces. Eleven-year-old Benjamin Guieto, observing the terrified women and children, jumped out the window and got a policeman. The policeman came up behind the prowling mongrel and shot him dead...
...Benjamin Holt Ticknor '31 of New York City...
Facile Andre Maurois, biographer in the new imaginative manner, brings a foreigner's sympathy to Benjamin Disraeli, Jew, enigma, suspect; gauges his ambition, lists the obstacles, counts the defeats, shows that Disraeli learned to temper his brilliance with patience until at last, aged and broken, he attained "the top of the slippery pole" of politics...
...that such artists as Rembrandt, Tiepolo and Whistler are represented. Moreover, there are two groups which show a specialization in collecting not unworthy of a museum. One of these is a collection of small engraved silver snuff boxes; the other consists of miniatures comprising examples painted by Copley and Benjamin West. John Paul Jones, Robert Morris, Charles Sumner and two signers of the Declaration of Independence are among the subjects of this collection...
Married. Edward Coleman Delafield, 50, president of the Bank of America, director of many corporations; to Miss Clelia C. Benjamin, amateur actress, of Manhattan; in Greenwich, Conn...