Word: benning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disappointed until newsmen have denied her a voice and she herself has pleaded stagefright. Evidently the microphone held less terror than a sea of faces for Wisher Walska sang over the radio last week as scheduled, prettily, quaveringly, the "Dich teure Halle" from Tannhauser, Giordoni's Coro Mio Ben, and "Daddy's Sweetheart" by Liza Lehmann...
...western trip and a southern trip have also been announced for the debating team. The former will come in the early spring and will be for the purpose of meeting western universities on the rostra. The schedule for this has not yet ben decided on, but will probably include the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. The plans for the southern trip, which will take place later in the spring, probably in April, are as yet in an undeveloped state...
Bandages were removed last fortnight from one Bert Ferguson's sick eye on which Dr. Ben Witt Key, Manhattan ophthalmologist, a fortnight ago had grafted another man's cornea (TIME, Nov. 12). The graft was "taking;" Bert Ferguson could see; Dr. Key had succeeded; Charles E. Greenblatt, who had supplied the cornea from his own diseased eye, was content...
Thirty-two also is Jewish Greenblatt. Equal also are the color, size and shape of their eyes. Coincidal too were the accidents of Dr. Ben Witt Key, ophthalmologist, knowing both their cases. A sure eye surgeon, and a daring, Dr. Key thought of lifting the thickened cornea from Nordic Ferguson's bad eye and grafting on the peeled ball the good cornea of Jewish Greenblatt's bad eye. The Jew amiably agreed to the graft, the Nordic hopefully received it. And hopefully, with eyes bandaged, they waited for results...
While the City Sleeps. Because Underworld, crook cinema written by Ben Hecht, made record returns for Paramount a few months ago, hundreds of hideaways, spitting gats, Big Boys, molls, bulls, rods, and mobs have been photographed. Now Lon Chaney as a very plainclothes detective with bunions strides painfully through a convincing picture about bad men and a good girl...