Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ben (Nebraska backwards), Omaha's autumnal jamboree, is held in conjunction with a huge livestock show...
Omaha also has a Coliseum and it was here that the 38th King & Queen of Ak-Sar-Ben held their levee in a setting modeled after the Temple of Love at Versailles. Congressman Malcolm Baldrige, as Court Chancellor, addressed the regal train, the State's best and richest young and old folk. King was William Henry Schellberg, 6-ft., silver-haired president of Union Stock Yards Co., done up in the usual Empire court dress complete with cream satin knee-pants. Long a leading figure in Omaha, he is credited with having done much to build...
...Check Girl (Fox) sets out as a fable of true love in Manhattan between a hat check girl (Sally Eilers) and a millionaire's son (Ben Lyon). Finding this theme thin as well as improbable, it pads itself out with winter sports scenes, night club shows, the slimy trail of a blackmailing scandal-sheet editor, underworld ramifications, subway interludes. The unreality of the proceedings is heightened by the two leading players' conflicting ideas of what the picture is about. Ben Lyon tries ably to play it as light comedy. Sally Eilers, stiff and strained, registering emotion by twisting...
...been the policy of the Society to present new trends in contemporary art, not for their freakishness but as a means of informing Cambridge and Boston of modern movements. The Society does in no way depart from this policy in presenting the forthcoming show of the work of Ben Shahn...
...reader may also wonder why Poet Benét likes such stumbling-block words as: corsive, accipitrine. mort. On the whole he will probably find Rip Tide moving, though more pathetic than...