Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the early years of this century Harvard took the lead among educational institutions in fostering the study and improvement of municipal government. The Bureau of Research in Municipal Government was at that time internationally famous. Students were gathered here under the leadership of William Bennett Monroe for investigation in this field. Of late, however, conditions have been different. The Bureau still exists, but it is no longer a vital force in practical affairs. Professor Monroe has removed to California and his position has remained unfilled. Some courses in the field, it is true, are given by Dean Hanford...
...pretentious figure of speech. Properly speaking, Verin reclaims not his head but his brain. He is hired to write pacifist articles which make his employer famed. When the employer, after having betrayed Verin by entering a deal with munitions manufacturers, begins making motions at Verin's pretty wife (Joan Bennett), it is the last straw. Verin decapitates him and goes to see his lawyer...
Chairman Nye, as usual, proved a heavy-handed cross-examiner and got little information without aid from the Committee's investigator, Stephen Raushenbush. Little more effective was plump Senator Bennett Champ Clark, who got everybody's dander up by expressing extraneous personal opinions, by taking the attitude that all the witnesses were trying to put something over on the Committee. Best of the Senatorial inquisitors was Michigan's Senator Vandenberg. Yet with all the dramatic material offered by a munitions inquiry, the best dirt the Committee could...
...Best of the interchanges took place between Senator Bennett Champ Clark and smoke-ring-blowing Irénée du Pont...
...failure to pay their board bill when one, a composite photographer by trade, hits upon the idea of manufacturing with his lens the most beautiful girl in the U. S. A laxative firm is offering $2,500 for her picture. She is given Greta Garbo's eyes, Constance Bennett's hair, Myrna Loy's lips, Katharine Hepburn's nostrils, Norma Shearer's elbows, Claudette Colbert's knees, Marlene Dietrich's legs. The synthetic belle wins the prize and her creators are eating high off the hog until the nation's Press demands a look at the original. In desperation they...