Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grilling continued, Inspector Collins was caught in one palpable lie, and appeared to arouse little credulity for certain of his statements. When some 2,000 pages of testimony had been taken from numerous witnesses, the case of Scotland Yard was summed by Sir Henry Honywood Curtis-Bennett: "I do not want it supposed that the police have done anything of which they are ashamed. ... If you impute bad faith to these officers of Scotland Yard, everything becomes possible. But if you assume that there are at Scotland Yard certain traditions of honor not likely to be broken, then other matters...
...Hugo Kaulen ended his trip, 13 miles less than the distance to Kenbridge, Va., where Capt. Edmund W. E. Kepner of the U. S. Army landed his bubble. Capt. Kepner was unofficially adjudged, last week, to have brought the U. S. its third consecutive victory in the James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race, assuring permanent possession of the trophy...
...herself on one side of a net she has never been very brilliant when there was anyone to help her. Last week in the Wightman Cup matches at Wimbledon Miss Wills demonstrated once more the need for these defining terms. In the singles she beat Mrs. Watson and Miss Bennett; little Helen Jacobs put out Betty Nuthall, but both Mrs. Watson and Miss Bennett beat skinny, brown-faced Molla Mallory, who was once unbeatable. Everything depended on the doubles. Playing with Penelope Anderson, Miss Wills kept looking around nervously to see if she was expected to take balls that dropped...
...slight, blonde English girl with long legs and pale, wistful eyes, moved quickly around a tennis court in Auteuil trying to return the shots that Helen Wills sent at her. The English girl's name was Eileen Bennett and she was steady and careful and did well though it was clear to her and to everyone that she had no chance. They were playing on a hard court for the championship of France and it was well known that Helen Wills wanted to win since she had come to Auteuil for that purpose. Once the English girl broke through...
...Swope died in 1909 of potassium cyanide poisoning. A Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, who had married Col. Swope's niece, was convicted of the crime. Dr. Hyde was further accused of trying to do away with other members of his wife's family by infecting them with typhoid germs. Dr. Hyde's case was appealed and the Missouri Supreme Court cleared him. The prosecution was assisted by U. S. Senator James A. Reed. The defense was led by Frank P. Walsh, whose son and namesake last winter took the Hickman murder trial (and lost...