Word: benign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts, they drove through Concord to Groton. Too late to see his wife (who had been there the day before but sped off to New York on her own rapid itinerary), the President stopped in his car before the house of Mrs. William F. Horton to greet his benign, white-haired mother who was staying there, then drove on half a mile to the school...
...would listen. ''Everybody ought to drink more rum," advised Delegate Mayard, "and they ought to eat more bananas." Word that the King-Emperor was rising in the Conference lift caused 800 delegates, experts and correspondents to scramble to their feet. Stiff and silent to honor His Majesty, benign sovereign of one-quarter of all mankind, stood white chief delegates in cutaways, white-robed Indians, the gaily turbaned Hejaz delegate and the head of only one state, President Schulthess of Switzerland. George V, who had driven straight in from Windsor Castle, sprang an immediate surprise. Instead of speaking straight...
When half an hour later H. R. 1491 came up in the Senate, Representatives crowded into the chamber to try to learn the details of what they had just done. Florida's Fletcher, benign rosy-cheeked chairman of the Senate's Banking & Currency Committee, nominal sponsor for the measure, conveyed little information. Senator Fletcher nipped his hands up & down helplessly, spoke of the necessity for prompt action and left it to Virginia's Glass, No. 2 man on the committee, to do the explaining...
...benefit of timid Karl. Upshot of this sequence: The playwright puts Sieglinde in his new play, the mistress carries Karl off to Berlin. With much sympathy and good humor, Messrs Hammerstein & Kern unravel their amatory knots to everyone's satisfaction, send their audience home with a sense of benign gratification. Best tunes: naive 'I've Told Every Little Star." lilting 'Night Flies By," nostalgic "Egern on the Tegern...
...generation age John D. Rockefeller was the supreme personification of capitalism at its worst. In our own life time through the persistent efforts of his publicity man, Mr. Ivy Lee, he has very nearly become the supreme personification of capitalism at its best. Has he not become a benign old gentleman who gives dimes to caddies and whose birthday is a regular newspaper event? That he was once thought of as an industrial giant who ruthlessly demolished his competitors and as an ogre who preyed upon a defenseless public is now usually forgotten...