Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular reader of your excellent magazine, I regard TIME most highly, and therefore I take exception to your article under the heading "People" concerning Mrs. Cora Bennett in your July 16 issue. The business of life insurance, today, needs no defender and the person who sells this service, whether it be man, woman or widow belongs in a higher classification than a peddler. . . . Mrs. Bennett is not the first widow who has been forced to sell the very commodity for lack of which her erstwhile husband makes it necessary for her to earn a living. In a day when...
Irishfolk applauded Charles A. A. Bennett, Yale faculty wit and philosopher, last week, when he said in Dublin, Ireland: "The British humorous weekly Punch presents distorted, snobbish, and inaccurate pictures of American life and manners in its cartoons. . . . Wars tend to be provoked by such fostering of ignorant prejudices. . . . Much of the American slang distorted by Punch is vigorous and expressive instead of vulgar...
...Norway across the island of Spitsbergen to Point Barrow, Alaska. If you fly about half this distance and look down, as likely as not you will see the block of ice which happens to be the North Pole. At that point you may shake hands, as Pilgrims Byrd and Bennett did in May, 1926. Or you may bare your head, as Pilgrims Nobile, Amundsen, Ellsworth, etc., did in May, 1926. Or you may fly sternly on, as Pilgrims Wilkins and Eielson did in April, 1928. Or you may drop flags, as Pilgrim Nobile...
...maudlin good. But out of necessity perhaps to H. G. Wells to whom the book is dedicated, Author Gerhardi winds up his loose strands with a tiresome world destruction. Ottercove flies with Vernon Sprott (Arnold Bennett) toward the patch of earth that survives the end of the world, but disintegrates on the way. As Castor & Pollux the two men are immortalized by the glowing ends of their cigars. Ottercove's unborn son and Eva and some of her lovers are chief survivors of the extravaganza...
...Cora Bennett, unable to live on her pension as widow of famed Air Pilot Floyd Bennett, peddles life insurance policies in Brooklyn. Last week, she sold her first policy. The purchaser: Charles H. Colvin, of the Pioneer Instrument Co., manufacturers of instruments used by Aviator Bennett flying to the North Pole...