Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such, Commissioner O'Ryan personally supervised the ensuing robber hunt. Interborough bridges were scrupulously policed, suspicious-looking autoists halted and frisked for guns or loot. Up from Floyd Bennett Field soared two police planes to scout up the Sound, down the New Jersey coast for Popeye and its companion craft. To work straight 24-hr. shifts on the case until it was solved, 25 of the youngest detectives on the force were selected, because their faces would be less familiar to criminals. On the supposition that the hold-up men had left New York, Department of Justice agents were ready...
Twenty-five years ago the name of Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde was in the headlines of every U. S. newspaper as a cold-blooded murderer. A young practitioner, he had married the niece of rich old Thomas H. Swope of Kansas City, who lived in a large country place near Independence. In October 1909 Dr. Hyde was called to Independence to care for another of his wife's uncles, old James Moss Hunton who was down with apoplexy. Dr. Hyde took two quarts of blood out of Uncle Moss and the patient promptly died. Two days later Uncle...
...exhibits Cellini only once in his studio and even then he works without enthusiasm. It is a portrait of him in his spare time, not as the artist but as the medieval playboy, dashing, sly and consecrated to misconduct. Magnificently acted by Frank Morgan, Fredric March and Constance Bennett, directed with delicacy by Gregory La Cava, The Affairs of Cellini is an uproarious and gracefully ribald costume play, rarely informative but almost always funny...
Alessandro, Duke of Florence (Morgan), decides to have Cellini (March) killed, for fighting with a Medici. The Duchess (Bennett) wants him to remain alive until he has finished some gold plates for her banquet to the Duchess of Milan. When the Duke calls on Cellini, the artist is making love to Angela, his model (Fay Wray). The Duke changes his mind, pardons Cellini, takes his model to his summer palace. Presently the Duchess visits Cellini's workshop. She commissions him to make a key, asks him to bring it to the summer palace. Cellini arrives with the key while...
...went through the Black Country north of Birmingham, the pottery district of Staffordshire (Arnold Bennett's Five Towns), the slums of Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, visited Blackpool (England's Coney Island), the collieries of East Durham. Everywhere he found something to interest and perturb him. His conclusions: "You go up and down this country and what makes you jump with astonishment and delight is something that has been there for at least 500 years. ... I find it difficult to believe in the God who inspired the creators of Beverley Minster. But I am beginning to find it even more difficult...