Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...munitions for the North during the Civil War. He went to Europe in 1867, established a cartridge factory in the south of France. His capital increased by profits from the Franco-Prussian War, he moved to Paris to set up a new arms factory in suburban St. Denis. Ben Hotchkiss, like his compatriots, Gatling and Maxim, was one of the inventors of the modern machine gun. One of the firm's best sellers, now long outmoded, was Director Benet's own invention. Though the U. S. Army prefers the Browning, France uses the Hotchkiss extensively. So does Japan...
JAMES SHORE'S DAUGHTER-Stephen Vincent Benét-Doubleday, Doran...
...lived in the 18th Century, Poet Stephen Vincent Benét would almost certainly not have written in verse. Many a reader of his Pulitzer-Prizewinning poem, John Brown's Body, had an uneasy feeling that it was about time "poetry" was redefined. But many a reader of James Shore's Daughter will wish that Poet Benét had not taken a vacation in prose. What Lewis Mumford (see below) would call "fatally readable," James Shore's Daughter has the faint odor of a Richard Harding Davis novel that has survived a little too long. Those...
...Ben Hur (1880) Lew Wallace...
...which sometimes came in on time. But plenty of other excitement went on just below the surface. Drury. the town villain, was making a cuckold out of little Bolly Hootman. Slaughter Somerville, No. 1 Citizen, was in love with the deacon's wife. Station Agent Ben doggedly pursued cat-like Lulu, unaware that she was after Slaughter. When the deacon found Slaughter and his pretty wife practicing hymns together in the church and peppered them with birdshot, all these situations began to come to a head. Villain Drury, not content with hurting Bolly's feelings by letting...