What is "benny"

Usage examples of "benny".

Rose entered the platoon tent and walked past the bunk on which Wilson, McGee, Morgan and Perdue played cards, stopping where Benny lay dozing on his cot.

Benny out of going to the cops to give himself up as the psychopathic killer.

Bresnahan showed the girl first the photograph of Pascal Burke, then Quintan Finn, Manus and Donal Frakes, Benny Carson, and finally Tim Tallon.

So the Harvards knock down Sam the Gonoph and Nubbsy Taylor and Jew Louie and Benny South Street and old Liverlips just once more and then all the Harvards put their heads together and say rah-rah-rah, very loud, and go away, leaving the goalposts still standing, with our little doll still roosting on the crossbar, although afterward I hear some Harvards who are not in the fight get the posts at the other end of the field and sneak away with them.

He was living in a cottage down the hill from the university, down in a flat, scuzzy student part of Santa Cruz, rooming with Benny Phlogiston and Aanna Vea.

Chamisa County included two teams from Milagro: the Saints, who were made up largely of players from the town, including Charley Bloom, Rlhi Archuleta, Johnny Pacheco, Jimmy Ortega, Benny Maestas, Claudio Garcia, and Joe Mondragon, and the Angels, who were largely a Devine conglomerate, and for whom Horse-thief Shorty, Nick Rael, BernabS Montoya, and Harlan Betchel and his anemic seventeen-year-old son, Albie, played.

The shouter did not sound like a Southern man, but Caudell recognized his voice all the same: it was Benny Lang.

For instance, he warned them to stay away from the property of the more touchy citizens who might be expected to defend their possessions and even come into the mountains after thieves, people like Aaron Court and Benny Ripon, a part-time gunfighter and part-time jeweler, and people who might take revenge in other ways, people like Al Bleiberg, the butcher, who might refuse to sell their stolen cattle, or Sheriff Maxie, who might alter his laissez-faire attitude toward Packard activities, or Lilith Moran, who might bar them from the delights of gambling, drinking, and whoring at the Fallen Angel.

Ray Douglas Bradbury shares with comedian Jack Benny the distinction of having been born in Waukegan, Illinois.

Even the gentle and good-natured Benny Schwartz, who normally spoke pure Bostonian, made a point of relapsing into deep Brooklynese when Dennis was around.

We had Jack Benny for Canada Dry and Chandu the Magician, and Little Orphan Annie, and even Byrd at the South Pole sometimes.

Peppy, a large, aggressive black Doberman, nearly ninety pounds of muscle, was probably the wrong dog for Benny Goldblatt, a skinny nineteen-year- old from New England.

Benny pulled up his own chair to join the three men but at that moment hoofbeats grew louder in the street and two wagons drew up before the open doors with harness rattling.

To implicate the Frakes, who subsequently tried to murder their erstwhile comrade, Benny Carson?

Jack pistol-whipped Weiskopf, tossed his pad, found a trunk full of goofballs and bennies.