Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MODERN TRAGEDY-Phyllis Bentley-Macmillan...
From their grimy Midland factory towns, the late Enoch Arnold Bennett and David Herbert Lawrence went on to bigger and brighter themes. Now Authoress Phyllis Bentley, whose background is the textile industry of Yorkshire's West Riding, has taken up the smoky torch. The scene she dimly illuminates is industrial, but its appealingly human inhabitants move in solid outline against the drab shadow of mills...
England's swiftest, swankest sports car used to be the Bentley, defunct since 1931. This year Rolls-Royce Ltd. have revived the Bentley as a name with even greater prestige among sportsmen than their own. Last week the King-Emperor's youngest son, Prince George, opened London's 27th annual Motor Show, lingered longest at the Bentley booth. Soon Rolls-Royce announced that their whole 1934 output of Bentleys had been sold "largely to private owners." despite the fact that the cheapest Bentley is priced...
CARR - Phyllis Bentley - Macmillan...
...write the life of a plain man with all the pomp & circumstance of a full-dress biography might seem a satirical idea; in unkinder hands than Phyllis Bentley's such a book might be a reductio ad absurdum of both subject and method. But Authoress Bentley's intentions and accomplishment are honorably serious. Though she sets the stage with such reverent care that the reader expects a notable if not tycoonish hero, the curtain has not been up long before alert spectators realize that the spectacle will be unspectacular. Authoress Bentley succeeds, however, in transfiguring her average...