Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depends what you want when you go to the theatre. The Pulitzer Prize will probably never descend upon the benign person of Mr. George M. Cohan; on the other hand Mr. Eugene O'Neill, whose forbears must hall from a very different part of Ireland, will probably never write as good an evening's entertainment as Mr. Cohan manages to turn out with annual regularity. His plays are never profound, never very original; with a fair amount of practice one can almost invariably guess what is going to happen next. But the point is that one doesn't mind...
...journey emptied geography of ignorance, emptied also any hopes of discovering a better world on Planet Earth. The cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among the Arabs, due to Bin Sa'ud's benign but determined autocracy, made the journey possible. From the coast of the Arabian Sea, Explorer Thomas sent inland two Rashidi tribesmen to collect camels, men to conduct him over the Qara mountains to the desert's edge. Shaikh Salih went ahead to organize a relay, prepare the desert ways...
Meanwhile in the English Dairy Show at the Royal Agricultural Hall the benign nanny goat that provides Mahatma Gandhi with his goat's milk defeated all comers in her class, had a blue ribbon hung about her scrawny neck and was officially named "Mahatma." Chief concrete result of the human Mahatma's visit is that in London the price of goats and goat's milk has gone up. At Kingsley Hall, where St. Gandhi sleeps and spins, a secretary disclosed that during the first days of his visit goat's milk was hard...
Three thousand surgeons drifted into Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week. It was easy to see that they were surgeons, not physicians. The physician is apt to be benign, a trifle careless of his dress, slow in speech. The surgeon, on the other hand, tends to talk swiftly, dress meticulously, gesture boldly. There are always more evening clothes at a surgeons' meet than at a physicians'. This was the American College of Surgeons, at its 21st annual clinical congress...
...your issue of June 1 President Hoover is quoted: "Like so many benign social agencies it [the Red Cross] sprang from the mind and the heart of a woman...