Word: benning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course by their frantic efforts to beat one another to the mystery's solution. Evidence pointed to the hiring of underworld thugs, by "higher-ups" in Canton to commit the murder. One Louis Mazer, Canton bootlegger and an overlord of the Canton "jungle" was arrested. Also one Ben Rudner, hardware dealer of nearby Massillon, Ohio. But the key man of the mystery was missing, Patrick Eugene McDermott, ex-convict, member of a family of mine-laborers in Nanty Glo, Pa. He was believed to have been in the shooting gang. He was known to be hiding somewhere, supported and protected...
...rare Sir William Davenant!" are the words inscribed on a stone in the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey, and beneath these words a date, April 7, 1668. Here lies all that remains of the man who succeeded Ben Jonson as poet-laureate; that is to say all but a few unreadable plays...
...Galleys having five banks of oars, two more than those of the triremes (three-bankers) now flickering before U. S. cinema audiences in Ben...
...West who still are old-fashioned and superstitious enough to follow anything that smacks of religion are on the wrong road. We should turn rather from Christ to Abou Ben Adhem, who did not love God but rather his fellow men. For when our worship of Mammon has filled our purses to satiety we turn not to fighting the Devil, or Sin, or ourselves, but to social reform, to fighting tuberculosis or hookworm, or vice. The idea is presumably that if we try to patch up the botch Jehovah has made of keeping mankind in running order, Jehovah will repay...
...Ben Jonson," Professor Murdock, Sever 41, English...