Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cronies he lived, entertained and talked in a house on 19th Street. This establishment, which humorous old Oliver Wendell Holmes called The House of Truth, was the precursor of the "little Red House on R Street" which several of Mr. Frankfurter's protégés, including Ben Cohen and Tom Corcoran, made famous...
Eliot beat Lowell 32 to 26 and swamped Adams 41 to 19. The powerful Elephants were led by Ben Wilcox, who took a first place in the breast stroke and a second in the 200-yard free-style. Lowell won over Adams...
With Captain R. Bennett Forbes, Gaylord Dillingham, and either Ben Dillingham or Bronson Rumsey in the lineup, the Crimson squad is to play a six-chukker game against the Satirev horsemen, who come from Boston and Andover...
...Novelist Kathleen Norris. In his remarkable past he has played around with such varied characters as Jack London and Mexico's Rebel Pancho Villa. He had long since retired with a comfortable fortune and stomach ulcers when, in 1937, his young son David and his young nephew Jimmy Benét (son of Poet William Rose Benét) went to fight in Spain. Word that David had been wounded took Frederick Thompson posthaste to Madrid, where he found David recovering and insistent upon more fighting. Father Frederick wanted to fight, too, but his age (55) and his ulcers...
...hungry wolves padded swiftly down from the frozen Carpathian Mountains to raid isolated Rumanian villages for sheep and cattle. Turkeys driven to stations in northern France for the trip to Paris' Christmas markets froze to death. Ravenous crows attacked and mortally injured a small girl in Poland. Big Ben, intoning the hours in London, sounded like a pig-squeak...