Word: benjamin
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...Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, second wife of Benjamin Harrison, was never mistress of the White House. Her maiden name was Lord and she was a widow at the time of her second marriage. The first Mrs. Benjamin Harrison died during her husband's term of office. The second Mrs. Harrison (Mrs. Dimmick) was a niece of the first Mrs. Harrison, and 35 years the junior of the ex-President. A week before their marriage in 1896, General Harrison (a Presbyterian) was converted to the Episcopal faith. His son and daughter by his first marriage openly disapproved...
There has been these last few months a barely discernible turn of the tide. Romeyne Park Benjamin, The Jitney Players (mostly college graduates), Oliver Harriman (Princeton) have cast their lots with the actors. Possibly none of them will succeed John Barrymore; yet their example in forcing the national stage door against the dead weight of convention is invaluable. Young men of less position but with more temperament may be aroused to follow their inclinations through the door thus opened...
Poor Richard. Philip Barry, youngest of authors, who graduated from George Pierce Baker's Cambridge workshop to Broadway success with You and I, has written his second comedy of American life. The theme deals, not, as the title suggests, with Benjamin Franklin and his loaves of bread, but with the aristocracy of the American suburb...
Divorced. Park Benjamin, brother of Mrs. Enrico Caruso, by Mrs. Katherine Doremus Benjamin. She charged misconduct...
Sued for Divorce. Park Benjamin, brother of Mrs. Enrico Caruso, by Mrs. Katherine W. Doremus Benjamin. Misconduct will be charged...