Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the committee summoned Major General Bennett Meyers, wartime deputy chief of procurement, who retired in 1945. A burly, balding man with a bristle-brush mustache, Meyers had had his troubles. After a trip to North Africa (where Elliott Roosevelt's photo-reconnaissance squadron was stationed), Assistant Secretary of War for Air Lovett called him up and demanded: "For God's sake, Benny, don't we have a photo-reconnaissance plane?" Then Harry Hopkins called him to the White House, said that it was an outrage, and why didn't he get busy...
...long, lame melodrama about a radio star (Claude Rains) whose secretary is the first to be murdered, and various other people, pleasant and unpleasant, who hang around Rains's mansion hounding the culprit, or just waiting their turn. Among those present: Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Kurd Hatfield, Constance Bennett, Fred Clark...
...well established that Missionary Livingstone did not consider himself lost, and had little desire to be "found." But though Stanley came back without his man (Livingstone preferred to continue exploring and freeing natives from Arab slave traders), Journalist Stanley's trip built circulation for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald, and a profitable career for himself...
...literature, Pritchett has excellent taste. These 32 brief essays (many of which have appeared in London's New Statesman and Nation) restore the grandeur of such unvisited landmarks of English fiction as Humphrey Clinker, Middlemarch, Heart of Midlothian, Edwin Drood. They reduce to scale some modern writers-Wells, Bennett, D. H. Lawrence-while adding to the dimensions of several continental Europeans and two Americans: Walt Whitman and Stephen Crane...
Shoo! In Chicago, Mrs. John L. Bennett, whose husband manufactures flyswatters, sued for divorce, complained that he swatted...