Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curiosities Ogden Nash's "Hard Lines" and a little book of ridiculous answers to examination questions called "Boners" are about the best sellers in Cambridge today. Vicki Baum's "Grand Hotel" is the most successful of the recent novels and seems to have displaced the "Imperial Palace" of Arnold Bennett in popularity...
Perhaps because he detests gambling, Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich & pious, kept the name of the man he had ''advised" George V to appoint Governor General a dead secret. Last week this darkest of horses romped home a winner, sorely vexed Canadian sweepstakers. Darkest horse: Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough...
...only "real reason" Canadians could think of for this choice is that the Earl is a good friend of Mr. Bennett. Other reasons: 1) the Ponsonbys are a family long in the service of Britain's'Royal family, and George V, after having had to appoint a "native" whom he had never seen Governor General of Australia (TIME, Dec. 15), has been most eager to send a British blue-blood to Canada. Lady Bessborough is French, the daughter of the late Baron Jean de Neutlize, and so arc many Canadians more or less French...
...first evening of Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett's "unofficial" three-day visit to Washington was spent in the company of President Hoover, Secretary Stimson and his assistant William R. Castle Jr. Also present: Hanford MacNider, U. S. Minister to Canada. Although no intimation of what was discussed was forthcoming, it was generally assumed that Liquor, Tariff, St. Lawrence River power, and a possible U. S. embargo on Canadian wheat furnished dinner conversation. Only public utterance on Mr. Bennett's visit was made by President Hoover. Said he: "We are mutually interested in the common welfare...
Because it was another international affair, because the shooting occurred at a questionable distance offshore, because Prime Minister Bennett of Canada was just about to visit President Hoover in Washington (see p. 11), the official U. S. investigation was prompt and thorough. Assertions by some members of the Josephine K.'s crew that Mate Schmidt was drunk were disproved to the satisfaction of the Coast Guard board. As in the still unsettled case of the I'm Alone (TIME, April 1, 1929), the main question was: Did the shelling and seizure occur within the jurisdiction...