Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hohokus, N. J., when two strangers drove into his filling station and proffered two half-dollars for gasoline, Ben Weinstein cried, "Phony." gave chase in his automobile, forced the strangers to wreck their car against a bridge. In the wrecked car police found 500 counterfeit half dollars...
...while descending eleven stories in an elevator. He carried thin gold-headed canes, wore white spats, checkered waistcoats, spoke of money as "scratch." Suffering from the effects of a sporting banquet, he received a massage the night before he died from his longtime Negro cook-chauffeur-valet, Chicken Fry Ben Jones...
...away in the lead. At the first turn, trotting in the clear by a length, she suddenly saw the shadow of the rail across the inside of the track. When she broke nervously into a gallop and was taken to the outside, the leaders rushed past her. Driver Ben White got her back into stride, then set out after the, field, caught it on the second stretch. Tired by a blistering quarter-mile after her break, Mary Reynolds led Brown Berry to the last turn, when a third horse, Hollyrood Portia, left the ruck and set out after...
...crowd gasped at how much Mary had left as she hammered down the stretch two lengths behind Brown Berry. Ben White pulled her wide and she whaled away down the outside, closing like doom on Brown Berry. Fred Egan slapped the reins and Brown Berry began setting his hooves down faster. Running along the rail 50 yards from the finish, Brown Berry set one down on a stone no bigger than a marble. Brown Berry plunged to the ground, his muzzle sliding through the dirt, catapulting Egan against his crupper and down between the shafts. Clinging desperately to the reins...
When Mickey Walker retired as middle-weight champion, his title went, after an elimination tournament last winter, to a lean, stubborn, hard-muscled New Yorker named Ben Jeby, who in all his fights showed much more courage than finesse. Last week in New York Jeby had his first chance to defend his championship against a really high-grade opponent. Barrel-chested Lou Brouillard, of Worcester, Mass., much the same type fighter except that he is lefthanded, came running out of his corner in the first round and planted two lefts on a chin that Jeby's previous opponents have...