Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benjamin Franklin's Great-Grandniece Is "Up" on Science...
...Author. Gertrude Horn, great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, was born in San Francisco. She married and was widowed young ("one of the most important incidents of my school life"). She wrote travel books with the aid of a geography and claims the introduction to fiction of San Francisco's social life. It is her pride and habit to be "up" on things, especially international politics and psychology, which she discusses in a manner highly stimulating to the notables that throng her Manhattan apartment-salon. At the moment she is traveling in England where she has long been regarded...
...Officials of the British embassy," it stated, "believe that the young woman is the former Vanessa Levy, daughter of Sir Benjamin Levy, who vanished from London shortly after her marriage to Lord St. Anstell recently. Their convictions have been reinforced by the finding in her possession of a vanity case which bears the initials...
...photographs has grown year by year, so that Evolutionists can no longer regard the trip itself as a guess. Mr. Darwin, who Mr. Bryan regarded as a leading authority on Evolution, is looked upon by scientists as only a brilliant pioneer- no more of an authority on Evolution than Benjamin Franklin (pioneer in knowledge of electricity) is today an authority on electricity...
...Author. Janet A. Fairbank (Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank) has written of New York City (The Cortlandts of Washington Square). Washington is far from unknown to her since her War work and suffrage activities. But Chicago? where lived her distinguished lawyer-father, Benjamin F. Ayer, where she was born, where she is known for a charming hostess and able politician?is her home and her debtor...