Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turncoat. In Memphis. Wesley Green, 37, slightly wounded his old friend. Clarence Bentley. 29. in a duel with shotguns at 15 paces, explained to police: "All his life Clarence agreed that passenger cars could go faster than trucks. Then today he changed his mind...
...faced up to it. Elegy in a Country Churchyard (which probably contains more familiar phrases than any other poem of its length in the language*) was published and later appeared in an illustrated edition with its five fellows under the discreet title: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley/ for six Poems by/ Mr. T. Gray...
...Roosevelt's affiliation and sympathy for left-wing characters and causes was something that she played with in her middle-aged childhood but which she has cast aside since she has donned her grandmotherly Mother Hubbard. The record shows otherwise . . . She has done her best to ridicule Chambers, Bentley and Budenz. To this day she has never publicly repudiated Hiss...
Much of the credit for an enjoyable production of this difficult play must go to the perceptive direction of Eric Bentley, who never lets the action drag for a moment. Lester Polakov's set also was effective, combining the elegance of an claborate town house with the stark atmosphere of a Chamber of Inquisition...
Chesterton's friend Nicolas Bentley believed that if G.K. had become "a decorative draughtsman" instead of a writer, "he would have had very few equals." Many of his numerous drawings have perished; but the sharpness of his talent may be glimpsed in a cartoon entitled "WHEN THE REVOLUTION HAPPENS: Bernard Shaw Refuses to Drink the Blood of Aristocrats on Vegetarian Principles and out of Kindness to the Lower Animals." This work is not only a splendid parody of Daumier, it is also an example of Chesterton's genius for translating his gravest opinions into...