Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GOODBYE, STRANGER?Stella Ben-son?Macmillan ($2). Stella Benson, liveliest of travelers, is a little too fanciful in her new novel to make good sense. Her general proposition is .that there are too many "soulless" people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy...
...following is a list of jurors. John Benson of Benson and Gamble, Advertising Agency of Chicago; S. E. Conybeare, President of the Association or National Advertisers and Assistant Sales Manager of the Armstrong Cork Company of Lancaster, Pa.; H. T. Ewald, President of the Campbell-Ewald Company of Detroit; F. C. Kendall, Editor of "Advertising and Selling Fortnightly," New York; W. D. Moriarty, Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California, A. C. Pearson, Treasurer of the United Publishers Corporation of New York; Hartford Powel Jr., Editor of the "Youth's Companion", Boston; Louis Wiley, Business Manager...
...critic is no longer the white haired sage whose years and experience have fitted him for the task of judging the merit of literary endeavors, but the child of twelve whose rompers take the ink spots as her brilliant pen splashes on its critical way. Elizabeth Benson of New Jersey at the age of twelve has seen in criticism her life work and has only waited until she has reached the ripe age of twelve before beginning seriously to judge the merits of her elders. However, there are those who still believe a background of a dozen years in this...
...first period. Benson tallied for the visitors on a pass from Marks. The score remained 1 to 0 until the middle of the last half, when Danielson, after carrying the ball for thirty yards, lodged it in the Dartmouth net. The defense on both teams was reliable. Lawrence breaking up many of the Harvard combinations and both the University fullbacks intercepting passes with regularity...
Harvard. Dartmouth. Thomas, g. g., Stickler Crooks, r.f.b. l.f.b., Meyercori McKinnon, l.f,b, r.f.b., Stone Parrott, r.h.b. l.h.b., Makepeace Kerness, c.h.b. c.h.b., Allis Carr, l.h.b. r.h.b., Lawrence Drizes r.c.f. l.o.f., Wacdbridae Daniclian, r.l.f. l.f.f., Alderman Cberardi, c.f. c.f., Pownell Trevett, l.f.f. r.f.f., Benson Smith, Rhinelander, l.o.f. r.o.f. Marse...