Word: benning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Denver, it is announced that a recount of the votes cast in the recent election for Judge of the Juvenile Court gives Judge Ben B. Lindsey a majority of 35. The recount was made necessary by ouster proceedings brought against Judge Lindsey by Royal R. Graham, his defeated opponent (TIME, Apr. 13). Judge Lindsey had first been declared elected by 117 votes...
...Playgrounds, public baths, night-schools, summer camps, day- nurseries?these, too, bear the Lindsey seal. "He is the Pinchot-Burbank of human resources." But the revived enthusiasm is a mere whisper in comparison with the plaudits of 10 and 15 years ago. Reform is apparently obsolete. Before the War, Ben Lindsey's story was shouted from front page to front page. This last year, Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture featured him. For this health and sex publication, the Judge wrote a series on The Revolt of Modern Youth, in which he exposed the "code of the flapper world...
ANNETTE AND SYLVIE?Remain Rolland. Translated from the French by Ben Ray Redman ? Henry Holt ($2.50). Among other notable equipment, the French mind possesses a love of Definition and innumerable definitions of Love. Remain Rolland, who professes that his characters choose him rather than he them, has now been selected by a strong-headed, rich-blooded French virgin (Annette) for the purpose of establishing, beyond all peradventure, certain emotional processes: how she came, after her wild but lovable father's death, to hate her vulgarian half-sister (Sylvie), then to love her passionately; to love an Italian bravo, forget...
Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall, Mme. Dusolina Giannini, who recently won fame and popularity as soloist with the Harvard Glee Club. Among other things she will sing Haendel's Large, Donaudy's "Del Mio Amato Ben" and aria from "Figaro", one from Beethoven and songs of Brahms and Schumann...
...authors could call forth such an aggregation of literary ladies and gentlemen as greeted Sherwood Anderson recently in Manhattan. The editor of The Dial was seen hobnobbing with the editor of The Saturday Rveiew, Louis Untermeyer, William Rose Benét, Floyd Dell and Louis Bromfield found themselves at the same table. Yet of all the unusual happenings of an unusual gathering, perhaps the most appealing to the sense of incongruity was the meeting (they did not actually meet) of H. L. Mencken and Stuart Pratt Sherman. These pen-enemies were in the same room, guests of the same host...