Word: benvenuto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan. Policeman Charles Benvenuto found one Oscar Lindquist, a sailor, foundering in traffic. As Policeman Benvenuto hurried to arrest him Sailor Lindquist stumbled, fell, dropped a bundle, which rolled between two car tracks. Policeman Benvenuto recovered the bundle, opened it, found inside a 2-year-old baby. Sailor Lindquist thought he might have got it in a speakeasy...
...titles of 491 books it will later present to the White House as a 500-volume library (TIME, April 7). There are to be 162 works of fiction, 20 detective stories, 29 juveniles, in addition to the usual Biography, Drama, Travel, Poetry and History sections. The list ranges from Benvenuto Cellini's Auto biography to the Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, from Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (banned in Boston) to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland...