Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, toastmaster and prime organizer of the $7-a-plate dinner, gave Cohn the first plaque. Then, in rapid order, Lawyer Cohn got six scrolls, three more plaques and a paperweight from as many organizations, including the "Anti-Peress Group of the P.T.A. of P.S. 49." Bellows of hoarse approval went up as Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky attacked "senile" Senators. Fulton Lewis Jr., an "I'm for McCarthy" badge decorating his lapel, criticized his fellow newspapermen for their lack of objectivity about McCarthy. Then Archibald Roosevelt, Teddy's son, led the crowd in booing...
...diseases may be by sure means prevented or cured not excepting even that of age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure beyond the antediluvian standard. -Benjamin Franklin...
...woman, sprawled on the only bed, her head thrust back in agony. While Dr. Martin examined her for signs of toxemia or a breech (butt-or feetfirst) delivery, the rest of the team spread newspapers over the furniture and set up equipment in the tiny kitchen. As they worked, Benjamin, the father, hovered anxiously in the background. A faulty electric fan started a fire, which Benjamin hastily...
...seven brothers of the title are the seven redheaded Pontipee boys-Adam, Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel, Ephraim, Frank and Gideon-who live all alone in their potato patch and wish they didn't. When Adam (Howard Keel), the eldest, gets himself a wife (Jane Powell) by singing one of those rare ballads (When You're in Love) with love in the music as well as in the words, the other brothers celebrate their single cussedness by yowling a funeral Lament (for a lonesome polecat) that should fracture even the toughest audience...
...PRICE JUMP of 10% to 20% will come before the end of the year because of rising costs, predicts Emerson Radio & Phonograph President Benjamin Abrams. Emerson will raise 1955 model prices within 60 days...