Word: benign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchester, N. H. He is not entitled to automatic succession to the archbishopric of Boston. For that, his appointment as Bishop Coadjutor would be necessary.* Boston was pleased last week to get Monsignor Spellman, rating him a balanced blend of spirituality and practicality, resembling more Boston's late benign Archbishop John Joseph Williams, loved by Catholics and non-Catholics alike, than the present rich, intellectual but imperious Cardinal, who in the past nine months has been in headlines, flaying "crooning" (TIME, Jan. 18), "the big moneyed interests," and a radio priest (presumably Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin...
...many a hard and horny fist. Outwardly he was with this throng but plainly not of it. His blue coat and grey trousers were wrinkled but he wore a necktie. His hair, above a high intellectual forehead, was a silky grey but his pale blue eyes were young, fresh, benign. His manner with the masses was one of studied informality. Yet he was their particular idol, Norman Mattoon Thomas, Socialist nominee for the Presidency...
Naturally the No. 1 delegation is paramount, representing 430,000,000 people out of the total Empire population of 450,-000,000. The No. 1 delegation is headed by Lord President of the Council the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Leader of the Conservative (majority) Party in Great Britain. With benign, bumbling, pipe-puffing Mr. Baldwin came lean, hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain; dignified President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman whose batwing tie is always straight; undignified Minister of Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas who drops his h's; other delegates, secretaries, stenographers to the number...
...Bavaria, where the bitter flavor of modern Berlin and musty Munich dissolved, Author Hergesheimer grew too nostalgic to be comfortable. He was jealous of the strapping, benign folk who lived such peaceful lives. "I would have given up everything I had managed, spiritually and socially, to gather in more than 50 years to be any one of the characteristic men of Tegernsee, strong and erect, my throat filled with music." He thought he could best fit in as a grocer in Wiessee, "sleep deeply all night in the room above my produce and ... in the early morning, polish the apples...
...Mellon aboard S. S. Majestic over night. Newshawks pressed into his cabin to find him warming himself against an electric radiator. He told them pleasant nothings. Was he afraid London's climate would hurt his health? "Ah, you're trying to lead me into an interview," declared the benign Ambassador. Counselor Ray Atherton of the London Embassy who had come down to meet his new chief, replied for him with a determined...