Word: benignantly
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...disposed of his Russian opposition simply by shooting it, was once widely regarded in the democracies as a sort of unwashed Genghis Khan with blood dripping from his fingertips. But as his armies have provided the principal opposition to Adolf Hitler, Dictator Stalin has come to seem increasingly benign to his new democratic friends. Last week United Press Correspondent Wallace Carroll, just out of Russia, reported that one U.S. official, after being guest at a Kremlin dinner celebrating the completion of aid-to-Russia arrangements, described the Dictator as "a nice old gentleman...
...effeminate", Mr. Kittredge sat and smoked, and listened with well-simulated interest while I, dripping with perspiration like a municipal sprinkler, read on and on, and while in the semi-darkness my fellow students heaved oc-occasional gusty sights of weariness; but one's reward came with a few benign words of approval which seemed an Olympian benedicton...
...Republican, liberal, a Coolidge appointee, as Chief Justice. Last week the U.S. realized how much it liked the idea of a solid man as Chief Justice to follow Charles Evans Hughes. And solid is the word for Chief Justice Stone-200 lb., with heavy, good-natured features and a benign judicial air. On the bench, Frankfurter moves around and makes notes; Douglas looks restless and bored; Murphy stares pensively under his bushy eyebrows; Black smiles enigmatically to himself; but Mr. Justice Stone, leaning forward impassively, his grey hair falling over his forehead, is almost as impressive a figure of justice...
Meanwhile the State Department announced that during April the benign old Secretary had realistically approved licenses to export $57,000,000 worth of war materials to the Dutch East Indies-an amount second only to the arms exports bound for Britain...
...rear-guard action against a benign monarchy of wealth is deliciously overwhelmed by her munitions-making father (Robert Morley), her agnostic sweetheart (Rex Harrison, George VI's double), and especially by an unreconstructible ruffian (Robert Newton), who very nearly runs away with the picture...