Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cavalrymen, working under cinema floodlights, swung into place the airtight gondola with its ton of scientific apparatus and 4,200 Ib. of buckshot ballast. In climbed the crew: Major William E. Kepner (pilot & commander), onetime assistant navigator of the Los Angeles, winner of the 1928 Gordon Bennett international balloon race; Capt. Albert W. Stevens (scientific observer), famed aerial photographer; and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, longtime lighter-than-airman...
Canada's rich, pious and paunchy Premier Richard Bedford Bennett sped to Quebec as the trig little liner Duchess of Richmond steamed in from Liverpool. Aboard was the Prime Minister of Great Britain, James Ramsay MacDonald, and his Housekeeper-Daughter Ishbel, on a three-month Canadian vacation. Whisked off by Premier Bennett, silver-haired, 67-year-old Scot MacDonald was soon sailing across the Bay of Fundy, driving up to a tiny cottage in Digby for the rest which eye-strain has imposed on him. As Ishbel sent out for more vases to hold the flowers which Digby...
...Tourgee, publisher of the New York Continent ... is a presumptuous ass." ¶ "Mr. Edward T. Flynn, managing editor of the Herald, will probably enjoy a good vacation. . . . Lily Langtry's attentions to the handsome Mr. Flynn continue to be as marked as ever." ¶ "Mr. James Gordon Bennett . . . goes through life having 'as good a time as he can, according to his own ideas. . . . There are worse men in every dozen we meet...
...Cotton, Ex-Lady. Her roles were usually those of a young lady with simple notions and sophisticated manners. Christened Ruth Elizabeth Davis, she coined her own stage name when she was 12, by misspelling Betty. When she arrived in Hollywood she was called a "school girl Constance Bennett." She learns a part by glancing through it once or twice, wears glasses when she reads, usually goes to sleep at parties. Her husband is Harmon O. ("Ham") Nelson Jr., bandleader at Hollywood's Colony Club. They went to school together, met again at the 1932 Olympic Games. Davis joke...
...Across from his farmhouse "Mitch" Hepburn had established a 15-acre car park and on big nights as many as 20,000 farmer constituents arrived to roar "Good boy, Mitch!" as he berated not only provincial Conservatives but the Dominion Government of rich and pious Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett...