Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legion of Decency will probably take loud alarm at She Loves Me Not, Sailor, Beware! and The Pursuit of Happiness, all Manhattan stage successes of the last season and all concerned with misbehavior. A Paramount experiment this year will be four pictures produced in Manhattan by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht...
...year ago by Jack Lovelock of Oxford. To see it broken by nearly a full second would have been enough, by itself, to make last week's track meet perfect. But ten minutes before, breathless spectators had witnessed the unexpected fall of another world mark. Stanford's Ben Eastman, who set a world's half-mile record two years ago, ran his race agains Charles Hornbostel of Indiana, who hai equaled Eastman's time last year. East man was away first, 8 yd. ahead at the first turn of the last lap. Hornbostel cut it down...
...capitalize on the fact that, so far, they have escaped the rigid Federal regulation of their fellow stock brokers. Minor commodities, as yet unexploited, were being investigated. Quicksilver, now selling at $75 per flask of. 76 Ib., was suggested as a good inflation hedge. Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, brash and jovial stockmarket operator, lately returned from a trip around the world full of good words for shellac and pepper. Though he personally inspected the habits of the Far Eastern lac beetle, he had apparently been influenced by a group of London speculators who call themselves the "Crusaders...
...Mitchellmen swung into action immediately. Braman Gibbs, right fielder, walked, and was advanced to second by Dick Maguire's sacrifice. Ben Prouty singled to bring him home. Johnny Fitzpatrick, who had also walked, came in a minute later on a beautiful double to center field slammed out by Ware. That raised the Crimson to three runs, their final score...
After establishing this sense of the timelessness of beginnings, Author Mann starts his story of Joseph in the middle of things. Yaakow ben Yitzchak (Jacob) and his tribe are encamped near the town of Hebron. Jacob, worried by the absence of his favorite son. Joseph, finds him sitting in the moonlight by the side of a well. Their conversation rouses Jacob's ready memories, which the tale follows back to their beginning: his cheating his elder brother Esau out of their father Isaac's blessing; his flight from Esau's wrath to Laban...