Word: benign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political fact sends England's Prime Minister into speedy consultation with his Cabinet." In all, Censor Wilkinson deleted 61 ft. from the reel. Because he considered that the work of his League of Nations Union had been deliberately minimized to spare the feelings of the Baldwin Cabinet, benign old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood promptly rose to complain: "It seems to me utterly ridiculous! Everything that has happened in the past two months has been recorded in the Press, and I fail to see why it should not be shown in the films." Always glad of a chance to blast...
Melanin is also the coloring matter of black cancer, one of the swiftest and most deadly forms of this disease. Since black cancers are malignant tumors and raised pigmented moles are benign tumors, pathologists call both Melanomas. What all cancer specialists know and what few laymen realize is that black moles sometimes turn suddenly into black cancers which are rarely recognized in time to save the victim's life...
...other peacetime President had ever dared to ask. It made it easy for him to make light of his opponents. It never wavered even when he gradually learned that his policies had aroused the antagonism of a large portion of U. S. Business. And it gave him throughout a benign assurance that he was certain of re-election...
...more modern figures, Ellis is less successful. Obviously disliking Proust, obviously repelled by Proust's mysterious masterpiece, he makes a stubborn attempt to evaluate the work and analyze its author, does not seem to grasp their significance in terms of contemporary literature and thought. Yet the note of benign humor that runs through all Ellis' work is also evident in From Rousseau to Proust. Quoting a line from Restif de la Bretonne's licentious memoirs: "How pretty the girls are at Auxerre!" the aged philosopher observed, "I have found myself independently making precisely the same remark . . . though...
...fool in dealing with doctors, businessmen and sick people, Dr. Calvin Hendry Cameron Connell of Kingston, Ont., whom the Press widely but ignorantly last week saluted as the Conqueror of Cancer, had already taken care to incorporate the Hendry Connell Research Foundation, Ltd. (capital, $50,000) to keep benign control of his system of treatment. Previously he had patented the manufacture of the hypodermic solution he uses and taken a copyright on Ensol, his apt name for the solution...