Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dentists smiled at such punning, wished it would stop. As he was about to turn over A. D. A.'s presidency to Dr. Leroy Matthew Simpson ('"Roy") Miner of Boston last week, Dr. George Ben Winter, St. Louis exodontist (specialist in tooth pulling), observed that only a hundred years ago all U. S. dentists were "drawn from the ranks of the artisans, goldsmiths, blacksmiths and barbers." Since then dentists have improved in knowledge, skill and culture. Yet so halting has been their social progress that an official A. D. A. committee last week was obliged to report...
...invited to University of California at Los Angeles to teach "The Art of Acting." Biggest celebrity beat was scored by small Mills College in Oakland, Calif. To summer students Mills offered "Civilization, Literature and Politics," conducted in French by Novelist Jules Remains, "Verse Writing" by Poet William Rose Benét, tennis instruction by Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, four-time U. S. Women's Singles champion...
...hierarchy of contemporary U. S. poets, Stephen Vincent Benét stands somewhat ambiguously as a comparatively young (37) singer whose heavily emotional approach to national concerns is slightly preWar, like his verse forms. A singularly unpredictable performer, he has been able to turn from so broad a project as his John Brown's Body to slapdash popular verses in the worst tradition of James Whitcomb Riley. In Burning City the contradictory aspects of his talent are laid out as if for analysis and dissection...
...from far places with cardboard suitcases." He describes the winters filled with memories of bad colds, of policemen with faces like blue meat, of "overcoatless men;" the brief spring, the hot summers when the poor lay out on fire-escapes "and the child cried thinly and endlessly." But Poet Benét admits he cannot explain the city or its society to future cornerstone riflers, and to serious readers his apostrophe may sound a little hollow...
...Walt Whitman, Poet Benét experiences further difficulty explaining the present to the questioning spirit from the past. When Whitman asks, "Is it well with these States?" the poet's troubled answer...