Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take the prisoners. . . . One fellow dropped down on his knees at once in the aisle, and all the rest of us fellows of the gang all knelt in silent prayer. Then the prayer was broken up when a drunk guy in the gang yelled 'Amen, Brother Ben...
...football crowd in the land could have been cheerier than the throng of farmers, bundled in sheepskins and mackinaws, who converged one morning last week in 15,000 automobiles on Farmer Ben Stalp's place near West Point, Neb. to see the National Cornhusking Championship. They cheered and stomped lustily as, with pheasants whirring up out of the sere corn rows and the yellow ears whacking against the bangboards, Husker Sherman Henriksen of Lancaster County, Nebraska, beat 16 competitors, including the champions of Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota, with a net load of 27.62 bushels in the allotted 30 minutes...
Perhaps your worthy publication has been deluged with protests from loyal Nebraskans to the effect that we do not have the "Quivers" out here. I refer to your statement on p. 49 ot your Oct. 16 publication in which you state that our King Ak-sar-ben and his Gracious Consort were crowned in the "Royal Castle of Quivers." Since we Nebraskans leave all of the "quivering" to Californians, may I inform you that it is the "Royal Castle of Quivera!" One thing you may be sure of-there is nothing "quivering" in the enthusiasm of this particular Nebraskan...
...places propaganda stickers on hats and windows, a great actress, a press agent, Christus and Judas from Murenberg, a business man and his secretary seeking a quiet nook for illicit love; such is the assortment on the Twentieth Century going from Chicago to New York. Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, the authors of "Twentieth Century," have no doubt, been influenced by Grand Hotel; the scene of action jerks back and forth from compartment to compartment giving us an illusion of what happens on trains while we snore peacefully...
...Ben" Prouty's rise in the ranks revived the question of whether or not Coach Eddie Casey was greatly dissatisfied with Danny Wells' performance at quarter on Saturday. Prouty, who started the season on the Varsity "B" squad but was not retained in the final cut, deserved promotion on his own merits, but it is argued that Casey thought his quarterback squad needed strengthening...