Word: benning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning, the 400, their ranks swelled near to 1,500, entered cavernous Westminster Hall, ancient home of Anglo-Saxon Jurisprudence. Big Ben itolled; an impressive silence fell; the assemblage rose; the English Judges, richly dight, proceeded majestically behind the Golden Mace of the House of Lords and the Lord High Chancellor's purse-bearer. Motioned to their seats by the purse-bearer's Master, Lord Haldane, the U. S. barristers were formally welcomed, instructed in the legend and tradition of their surroundings. Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down...
...Striking Ben Ali Haggin tableau, with Evelyn Law and Lina Basquette killing dull care with more dances...
...Berengaria (Cunard)?Nathan L. Miller, onetime Governor of New York; Haley Fiske, President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; the Countess of Amherst; Karl Bauer, famed German publicist; Hale Hamilton, playwright, with his wife, Grace La Rue, singer; George H. Doran, famed publisher; Ben Ali Haggin, designer of Ziegfeld tableaux; Arthur Hopkins, producer; John Conley, "tin foil king"; Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, wife of the famed banker, with their 17-year-old son, Roger W. Kahn, famed saxophone player and jazz leader; Mortimer Slater, Editor of the Jewish Morning Journal...
...demand referred to is the American demand for spirits. The Baronet stated that the demand existed, and that many countries were already competing to supply it. House of Commons. Ben Turner (Labor) presented a bill to nationalize all lands, minerals, rivers and streams. In its support he quoted the Bible: "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof," and "The profit of the earth is for all." Nevertheless, the bill was not taken seriously, was defeated 176 to 164 votes. ¶The subject of a reduction of Minister for Labor Tom Shaw's salary...
...spite of Jacob Ben-Ami and Blanche Yurka, Man and the Masses is, to the American eye and ear, full of sound and fury, and otherwise naught...