Word: benign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Search for Beauty (Paramount) is a benign sexual romp, publicized as an apostrophe to beauty, male as well as female ("Venus-like Girls! Tarzan-like Men!"). It presents: 30 handsome youngsters picked in promotional beauty contests throughout the U. S. and the British Empire; neat blonde Ida Lupino and muscular Larry ("Buster") Crabbe (Tarzan the Fearless). Lupino and Crabbe are Olympic swimmers. Hired by a pair of shifty rogues (James Gleason, Robert Armstrong) to run a physical culture magazine, they are soon shocked to discover what a crooked venture it really is. Crabbe is so vigorously honest that his employers...
...know which of several suitors to accept, she should put initialed onions beneath her pillow, be guided by the onion that sprouts first. For a lovecharm he prescribes a drop of blood in a glass of water. To keep witches out of a churn he recommends a hot flatiron. Benign, fond of his family, Father Hofnagel spits with loathing at the mere mention of regular doctors...
...average U. S. citizen thinks of him at all, he remembers Rutherford Birchard Hayes as a Benign Beard who was the 19th President of the United States. His memory is more important in Paraguay. A well-meaning gentleman who once thought of enlisting for the Mexican War to improve his bronchial trouble, he served as a Colonel under Sheridan in the Civil War, and was elected President in 1876 over Samuel Tilden in the closest, most bitterly disputed election ever held...
...eight paper cups and a tumbler of water on a table. While he described the involved dealings of defunct Bank of United States, he poured the water from tumbler to cup, from cup to cup and finally from cup to tumbler. "When it is all over," smiled elderly, benign Mr. Davis, ''you see that not a drop is spilled in the transaction, not even a dollar gained or a penny lost." His client, Isidor Kresel. a lawyer who was also a past master of trial technique, smiled...
...grass--at any rate, it was wet--and we were in tune with nature. Suddenly we saw ahead of us a couple. They were a plain, stubby couple, but they were arm in arm, and obviously not yet married. Approaching them, we listened for their remarks, with a benign curiosity. As they passed, the following morsel emanated from the lips of the man: "Now animals have fun. They..." The remainder of his speech was lost in the mists of evening...