Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benjamin's Mess...
...Figaro, Paris daily, recently, with touching ignorance, published a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Madame B. on the subject of ephemeral flies...
...result of a five weeks' competition LeBaron Russell Barker Jr. of Plymouth has been appointed a sub-chairman of the Photographic Committee of the Freshman Red Book. The following men were elected to the board; Benjamin Brewster of Dedham; Chester Linwood Dane of New York, N. Y.; Robert McCalla English of Brookline; William Osgood Field of Lenox; Robert Martin Perry Kennard of Newton; Harding Carruth Newman of Concord; Alvan George Smith of Medford; Frederick Benjamin Swarts of St. Louis, Mo.; Reginald Franklin Conroy Vance of Fredericksburg. Va.; Austen Wood of Worcester...
Engaged. Consuelo, Comtesse de Maupas, daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, American Consul General at Brussels, and sister of Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, to Benjamin Thaw, Jr., American charge d'affaires at Brussels. She was divorced from Jean, Comte de Maupas du Juglart in Paris last November...
...aeroplane, Bell of the telephone, Marconi of the wireless will be mere signposts marking the evolution of mechanical progress? They could not press agent themselves in immortal language and their memory will perish. But Dr. Johnson had a press agent in Boswell, Darwin had one in Huxley, and Benjamin Franklin, like Goethe, Leonardo, Dante and Cellini, was his own press agent. If you would have fame, "that last infirmity of noble minds," give up building skyscrapers, railroads, empires, military machines, and write an immortal song or a book of witty epigrams...