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Word: benjamins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since the 1940 blitz, when German bombs drowned out a performance of Faust, London's Sadler's Wells Theater reopened last week. Opening night, the premiere of Benjamin Britten's tragic opera, Peter Grimes, was London's biggest musical event in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opening Night | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

From a building in the disciplinary area of Indiana's Ft. Benjamin Harrison last week rushed an irate mob of G.I. prisoners. They snatched up the whitewashed boulders lining the paths and flower beds and rushed the guards. Suddenly, th compound became a battlefield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: G.I. Riot | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...Benjamin Franklin (1706-90). on his invention of bifocal spectacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Good Reading | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

Lawrence Lapp-Barbara Benjamin (Newton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1948 JUBILEE GUEST LIST (Continued from page three) | 5/22/1945 | See Source »

Enrico Caruso, probably the most popular singer of all time, lived a life as tempestuous, verbena-scented and romantic as any Verdi libretto. He was already a mature (45) and wealthy idol (and the father of two illegitimate sons) when he met convent-reared Dorothy Park Benjamin, courted her under the disapproving eye of her blue-blooded U.S. father, married her and made her one of America's most toasted women. With operatic fervor, he plunged into his new role: the impassioned husband and father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Emotionated Singer | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

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