Word: bennet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week on U.S. airwaves. The twangs came from an instrument which legend says was invented by a son of Methuselah-the lute, an instrument resembling an archaic mandolin. Rare too was the young lutanist who plunk-a-plunked and sang ballads on an NBC Sunday sustainer. Richard Dyer-Bennet, 28-year-old minstrel, is probably the only U.S. radio entertainer listed in Burke's Peerage...
...Ministry announced that Sir Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferte had been given charge of the Coastal Command, succeeding Sir Frederick ("Ginger") Bowhill, assigned to organize the flying of U.S. planes to Britain. Appointment of genial Sir Philip pleased the British who knew him for his peppy BBC talks which told them more about the R.A.F. than they ever read in the newspapers. Credited with being largely responsible for the development of effective night-fighting equipment, Sir Philip was expected to step up Coastal Command attacks on enemy shipping, and he immediately launched an intensified campaign...
...fact that by holding back on their dues they are doing more than endangering their own jobs-they are hurting the union of their fellow-workers just as much as Aldrich Durant could do if he woke up one morning and decided to act like Mr. Ford's Harry Bennet...
Said Air Marshal Sir Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferte in a broadcast explaining the new German agenda...
...Darcy, the wit and spirit of Elizabeth Bennet (Greer Garson) eclipse the distressing machinations of Mrs. Bennet (Mary Boland) in her search for rich husbands for her five marriageable daughters. He breaks up an unsuitable affair between Elizabeth's sister and his friend Mr. Bingley, then with an air of misfortune announces that he is willing to make an unsuitable match himself. At which point, Austenites recall, Elizabeth gives him his comeuppance. Before Darcy's pride and Elizabeth's prejudice give way, some ob servers may find the going a little lacy...