Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since last year, however, Tufts has come up with two shining lights--Ed Sigler, a former V-12 player, and Jim Bennett, another attackman. The latter scored five times against B.L.C. in the 11-10 decision the Jumbos recently dropped to that local aggregation. Apparently, sigler is the playmaker and Bennett the man he passes...
...know about Oscar Wilde, who had just completed his prison sentence in England for immorality and could be seen drinking his absinthe at the Cafe de la Paix. Papa advised that they be enlightened in 20 years. Eleanor, the loveliest one, first accepted, then jilted English Novelist Arnold Bennett. Writes Anne: "A chit was throwing over a good heart, a fine brain and an emerald ring, all belonging to a literary gentleman of some prominence, aged thirty-nine...
...World War I, when the Herald temporarily turned into a weekly, its contributors included George Bernard Shaw and Arnold Bennett. Later H.G. Wells covered politics, and Edgar Wallace, crime. (Once, when Contributor G. K. Chesterton was searching for the editor's office, an employee observed: "You seem to have lost your way." Beamed Chesterton: "We have all lost...
Editors Frederick Morgan, 25, an ex-G.I., Joseph Bennett, 26, a Navy veteran working as an investment analyst in Wall Street, and William Arrowsmith, 23, a 1948 Rhodes scholar, have been two years launching Hudson Review. As a nonprofit literary venture, they got $6,600 in working capital from friends (who hoped to deduct the contributions from taxes), and for a mailing address used the Manhattan home of Morgan's father, Sapolio Soapmaker John Williams Morgan...
...thumping Tory gain of 13,000 votes had come mostly at the expense of the rapidly evaporating Liberal Party. Bennett polled so few votes-less than one-eighth of the total-that he forfeited the ?150 election deposit intended to discourage "absurd and futile" candidacies...