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Word: benning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unconvincing enough to form the basis of any musical comedy, and, as a matter of fact, may well have served as such at one time or another, but then this isn't a musical comedy. There is some music, to be sure, furnished, according to the program, by Ben Bernie's Seville Orchestra (not to be confused with his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra). It isn't very tuneful but affords an opportunity for some good xylophoning...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/5/1929 | See Source »

Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins with his airplane pilot Lieutenant Carl Ben Eielson, last week, discovered that Graham Land is separate from the Antarctic continent. Between them is an ice-covered strait. Graham Land itself seems to be fringed with an archipelago. Between a great plateau to its north and a double mountain chain to its south is a broad expanse of white, which may indicate a valley or another strait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wilkins' Discovery | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Tribe of Ben", P. W. Souers Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

...Tribe of Ben". P.W. Souers, Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

...having wallowed thirteen months at Verdun. On the Eastern front he knew similar nastiness, saw deeper implications. A German Jew, 41, he has studied French and English literature, translated much of Kipling's verse. He is no relation to Stefan Zweig, the popular modern who adapted Ben Jonson's Volpone for the Theatre Guild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coffin to Coffin | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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