Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ames. How wise this policy is was demonstrated last week in the most tuneful of the Savoyard operettas, The Mikado. This opera is the one in which NankiPoo (William Williams), son of the Mikado of Japan (John Barclay), disguises himself as a wandering minstrel to woo Yum-Yum (Lois Bennett), ward and fiancee of the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko (Fred Wright). By crossing the palm of the stately grafter, Pooh-Bah (William Gordon), whose ancestry is so proud that he was "born sneering," they avoid one tangle of legal red tape only to discover themselves enmeshed in another...
September 30. William Bennett Munro, Jonathan Trumbell Professor of American History and Government...
Diplomats, soldiers, scientists stood at Henry Ford's Detroit Airport peering upward at round blobs in the sky. Official Starter Edsel Ford had sent away 15 balloons in the 16th annual Gordon Bennett trophy race. The U. S. and Germany each had three balloons; France, Belgium and Italy two each; England, Spain and Switzerland...
Engaged. Richard Bennett, 54, actor (He Who Gets Slapped, They Knew What They Wanted) ; to Mrs. Aimee Raish Hastings of San Francisco. He was divorced by his first wife, Adrienne Morrison, actress...
Like Arnold Bennett, she knows about the inarticulate necessities of unimportant people. Like the Russians whom Mr. Bennett so admires, she can articulate such matters with appropriate simplicity. "Her Own Room," in this volume of short turns, is simply the story of an old woman who lived in a flat with her son and his dependents. His homely daughter married. The old woman thought she might no longer be relegated to the davenport in the dining-room, but did not complain when this breathtaking likelihood collapsed...