Word: benning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Transcript editorial quoted in the adjacent column is as noteworthy as the subject which called it forth. Daily newspapers have the habit of burying educational topics at the tail end of their editorial procession. Like Abou Ben Adhem's name, this one led all the rest...
...General" Ben McKenzie, local wit and humorist, dressed in a blue seersucker suit, peered down his nose and through his glasses perched thereon and in a high, rasping, querulous voice began the fight. The Court seemed in considerable doubt as to what he was driving at. But when he sneered at the laws in the "great metropolitan City of New York" and in "the great white city of the Northwest," Lawyer Malone said: "We object. ... I do not consider further allusion to the geographical parts of the country as particularly necessary. . . . We are here rightfully as American citizens...
...would have my grandson study Rabelais, Montaigne, Ben Franklin and Li T'ai-Po, rather than William Jennings Bryan. Nor do I despair of students who, at times, unbend. They may become lovable conservatives, pillars of state, like Samuel Johnson and Pepys...
...have no respect for law, merely as law. It is the duty of every citizen to show his contempt, so far as is convenient and seemly, for any laws that seem to him contemptible. . . . I would have my grandson study Rabelais, Montaigne, Ben Franklin and Li Tai Po, rather than William Jennings Bryan...
London was wrapped in the darkness of night. A casual pedestrian, had he chanced to pass the House of Commons, would probably have stopped to admire its solemn dignity. His eye would have strayed upward, climbed the tower on which sits "Big Ben" and would have seen the light which shines above go out?the sign that a session had just ended. Not many minutes earlier, a weary man had risen from the Treasury Bench to make his way?some few hundred yards to his downy bed. . . . Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been battling...