Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lessons were not lost. Together, the Guggenheim sons-Isaac, Daniel, Murry, Solomon, Benjamin, Simon and William-made much of the world theirs. Building on the medium-size fortune left them by Meyer, a Swiss Jew who had immigrated to the U.S. in 1848, the seven sons stood fast to create the greatest mining empire of their time. With boldness and flair, they laid a railroad across moving glaciers to gouge out a mountain of copper in Alaska. They built a modern port and a 55-mile-long aqueduct to seize another copper mountain in the Chilean Andes. They raised...
...brothers only Isaac was a bore. Simon bought his way into the Senate, where as a Republican from Colorado he spoke against "cheap Spanish lead and also the Australian lead." Benjamin, the charming rake, went down on the Titanic, changing into evening clothes for the event. William, another wastrel, named the principal rooms in his house after the metals on which his fortune was based; the Salon d'Or was reserved for love. Solomon, who kept a suite at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, gave the doorman $1,000 tips so that he could keep his Fierce-Arrow parked...
...fish it out. Lisbon declared him persona non grata. Many lost all purpose, several died young, and a disproportionate number committed suicide. Simon's son George, for instance, bought a big-game rifle at Abercrombie & Fitch, checked into a hotel, and shot himself in the head. Pegeen Vail, Benjamin's beautiful and talented granddaughter, took an overdose of sleeping pills in Paris...
...Kuhn is a very eminent scholar and I think he'll add great luster to the department," Benjamin I. Schwartz, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, said yesterday...
...NAACP held a rally on Saturday afternoon featuring comedian and political activist Dick Gregory, and Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP...