Word: benign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North American College in Rome. At 34 he was the College's rector. Installed as bishop of Portland, Me. in 1901, he did so well that five years later he was made titular archbishop and bishop coadjutor of Boston. Stepping up after the death in 1907 of benign John Joseph Williams, Archbishop O'Connell raised money ably, consolidated charities, built schools and new parishes. In 1911 he was raised to the purple along with the Archbishops of London, Paris, Vienna and New York...
When Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, son of the poet Frederick Locker, was host to Albert Einstein eight months ago he was so convinced that Nazi agents would attempt to murder the benign German scientist that he mounted a guard of gamekeepers over him. Lately the blatant manifestations of black-shirted British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley have filled Commander Locker-Lampson with wild alarm. He rose in the House of Commons last week to introduce a bill that would not only deprive Sir Oswald of his uniform, but would strip the shirt from his distinguished mother, the very dignified Katharine...
What of Krupp, now? In theory, Krupp smelts only peaceful ore, and forges its steel only into such benign shapes as locomotives, rails, bridge girders, and others purely industrial. Actually, Krupp is rearming Germany--the discoverable portion of whose annual armament bill now about $80,000,000. Germany, forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles to import armaments, receives generous supplies from Sweden (where Krupp controls the armament firm of Bofors) and Holland; forbidden to Export armaments, she ships to South America, the Far East, or to any European nation that will violate its own treaty by ordering from...
...Benign in his little red skull cap His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, to whom Pietro Yon had dedicated his oratorio, sat in a box and listened raptly while Tenor Frederick Jagel, the Saint of the evening, sang first as a shepherd boy, then as the man whom God had appointed to defeat the heathenish Druids and convert all Ireland. Outstanding was the rich ecclesiastical background given by 60 Cathedral choristers. Sixty players from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra traced melodies so lush and curving that they might have come from a Puccini opera...
...Sweat (by John Charles Brownell; produced by James Montgomery & Henry R. Stern). The season's most disagreeable title cloaks one of the few straight Negro comedies ever produced on Broadway. Inoffensive and in spots disarmingly merry. Brain Sweat is concerned with Henry Washington's "projeck." Henry (fat, benign Billy Higgins, nightclub comedian) has not done a lick of work in two years. While his wife and son support him, he has been content to wear a fine patina on the seat of his rocking chair and cogitate means of making some easy money. "Brain sweatin...