Word: benning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ben Hecht...
...Ben Hecht is always about to embark upon a new enterprise. His dark eyes, nervous movements, ejaculatory speech, bitter mind, all suddenly are brought to bear upon the impossible and it is accomplished. He does too much. His plays just miss being brilliant. His novels suffer from a lack of taste which would undoubtedly be ironed out in a second writing. When he started to write a Rabelaisian fantasy in Fantazius Mallare he was only adolescent in his pornography and was consequently affected. His last book, a detective story, The Florentine Dagger, he claims to have written in ten hours...
...Fourteen million Moslems is the number of faithful in Eastern Russia, the Caucasus and Tashkent. They-or at any rate their so-called representatives-discovered the prophet, and, assembling at Ufa, capital of the Bashkir Republic, they elected him mufti. The name of the now sacred gentleman is Kiraeddin Ben Fakreddin. The conclave at Ufa is reported as having initiated a far-reaching program for the unification of Islam. Similar reports have come be- fore from greater centers than Ufa, and in connection with more noted men than Fakreddin. But as one report follows another, each becomes more significant...
...English Horse. Papyrus, son of Tracery, is owned by Ben Irish. Though not unanimously endorsed by other English owners as England's greatest horse, he will be backed by many a pound and shilling. Before coming to America he will run the St. Leger Stakes. First upon this race and then upon his seafaring qualities depends Papyrus' great challenge in October...
...George C. Hallowell. Other paintings and sculptures in the first 30 were by such standard artists as Daniel Chester French, Frederick Frieseke, Janet Scudder, Harry Watrous, Leopold Seyffert, Chauncey Ryder, R. Tait McKenzie, Charles Hawthorne, Frank Benson, Eugene Savage, Cecilia Beaux, Frederick Waugh, Lillian Genth, Charles H. Davis, Ben Foster, Ernest Ipsen, Charles Woodbury...