Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After yesterday's practice Coach Stevens announced that he would start Captain Booth at left halfback instead of Lassiter, and Hillman Halcombe at center in place of Ben Betner. The rest of the lineup will be. Flygare and Barres, ends: Wilbur and Hall, tackles; Nichols and Rotan, guards: and Parker, Crowley, and Levering in the backfield with Booth
...admirers are pleased to note that no situation causes him to lose his deliberated calm, his air of graceful self-sufficiency. Colman's qualifications, together with Estelle Taylor's expert impersonation of a lush and crafty siren, comprise the chief virtues of The Unholy Garden. The story is by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, who were unsure whether they were writing comedy or melodrama and did neither vigorously...
...Holy Bible salesmen. One entered an Austrian circus, sold Gospels to Japanese, Italian and Arabic performers. Trying unsuccessfully to circulate in the Eucharistic Congress at Carthage last year (TIME, May 19, 1930), one R. H. Robinson sold a New Testament to a traffic policeman. At a cinema performance of Ben Hur at a fair in Mollet, Spain, a colporteur stood by the door crying: "The Holy Gospels! With all the texts that are thrown on the screen in the film!" He sold...
...untarnishable halo round his head. When her former guide & friend Johann Most made slighting remarks about Berkman, Emma horsewhipped him publicly. Her fiery spirit was housed in a fiery body: in love she took her only vacations from the Cause. After Berkman came Ed Brady, Hippolyte Havel, Ben Reitman. She was very willing to take Berkman back when his prison term was over but somehow he did not want to; from then on they were just Platonic...
Last week's races for the Dennis Cup, international racing trophy of North Atlantic fishing schooners, may be the last. When the series was over, Bluenose, Canadian defender sailed by Capt. Angus Walters, had beaten Capt. Ben Pine's Gertrude L. Thebaud in three races, one of which did not count because neither boat finished inside the six-hour limit for the race...