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  • And on a wall adjacent to the Bentons is a grisaille painting of a 1928 Ford Trimotor airplane, its body of corrugated metal rendered in Precisionist style by Elsie Driggs.

    NYT > Home Page By KEN JOHNSON 2011

  • Yeah, I thought about using sausage, but Bentons doesn't ship their sausage and I know Ed can get the bacon.

    Death by Sandwich: II 2008

  • And the Bentons shortly thereafter left for Missouri, where Benton, Thomas Hart Benton was -- became a senator, goes to Washington and then befriends Andrew Jackson.

    James K. Polk 2004

  • It was before the Bentons went to Missouri, and Jesse Benton -- there was a duel, and Jesse Benton really offended Jackson by sort of serving as a second in that duel, and they -- and they attacked Jackson one day in a building on the street in Nashville, and they run him through.

    James K. Polk 2004

  • He was in his mid-40s, and the Bentons were, as I say, about -- almost a generation younger, so they would have been in their 20s.

    America's Jubilee 2001

  • LAMB: While we're on it, the -- the Bentons were involved in another -- I don't know if it's a duel so much, but their -- one of our former presidents was wounded by somebody involved in a-- tell us that story, the ...

    America's Jubilee 2001

  • Had the Bentons known or suspected that Randish was beating his wife, as his father had beaten his mother?

    No Laughing Matter Simpson, Dorothy, 1933- 1993

  • The Bentons had begun to give dances in the days of plenty, when the cattle industry had been at its dizziest height; and they had continued to give dances through all the depressing fluctuations of the trade, perhaps in much the same spirit as one whistles in the dark to keep up his courage.

    Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

  • "They'll be expecting us up at the Bentons, won't they, Jack?"

    The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed Robert Maitland

  • When the news of the disaster on the Mobile reached Nashville, Jackson was lying helpless from wounds received in his fight with the Bentons.

    The Reign of Andrew Jackson Ogg, Frederick A 1919

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