Word: benning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black cigar. Eleven appropriately furnished floats represented "The Parade of Nations." On a twelfth float was a large kettle decked with flags-"The Melting Pot." Beside the pot, as the Goddess of Liberty stood Miss Jean Redick, who also did service during the celebration as Queen of Ak-Sar-Ben and a Comanche maiden...
CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE?There are no better plays (Tchekov, Anet, the Quinteros) or better actors (Eva LeGallienne, Jacob Ben-Ami, Josephine Hutchinson) in town...
...stopped at Rio de Janeiro last week. As he left there for Buenos Aires and Graham Land south of Cape Horn, his supply and base ship William Scorseby sailed from Simonstown, South Africa. Waiting for him since last year at Deception Island is the airplane which he and Carl Ben Eielson flew over Graham Land (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928). Pilot Eielson now is in Alaska developing an aviation line for the Aviation Corp. With Sir Hubert are Parker Cramer, who this summer made a second unsuccessful try to fly from Illinois to Europe by way of the Arctic Ocean (TIME...
...Though she "spat and swore like a man . . . suitors sprang up like mushrooms." Elizabeth, it seems, was ''broadminded about her favorites, but snobbish about her suitors." With one favorite, the brown-skinned Leicester, she was intimate in public but denied that she made similar concessions in private. Ben Jonson opined that she was "incapable of man" and Brantome, always physiologically acute, offered a theory ex- plaining that theory. Elizabeth rejected King Philip of Spain but smiled on France's Alencon, her "Frog-Prince." She did not, however, make any marital history. Sad and jealous when her rival...
...Ben Jonson", Professor Murdock, Sever...