Word: cinemono
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Died. Robert Charles ("Bob") Benchley, 56, a sly wag with an inexact mustache, a burbling laugh and one of the world's warmest wits; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Best-known and loved as an author (The Treasurer's Report; After 1903, What?) and cinemono-loguist (Love Life of a Polyp; How to Sleep), diffident Bob Benchley got a diffident start with the Curtis Publishing Co. ("They stayed in Philadelphia in their small way, and I went to Boston"). He managing-edited Conde Nast's brilliant Vanity Fair, wrote drama criticism for the old Life...
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