Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he diagnosed Hitler's ailment as a "simple polyp" (small benign growth, round and stemmed like a pea), on his larynx, Hitler refused at first to believe him. The Chancellor had been convinced that he had cancer. Removal of the polyp from the larynx, a simple throat-cutting operation that many a physician (and layman) would be glad to have the chance to do for Herr Hitler, was very easy...
Service de Luxe (Universal). During the regime of benign, gnome-like little "Uncle Carl" Laemmle, corpses were so prevalent in Universal productions that they became practically the company's trademark, and every sound stage on the lot was a makeshift torture chamber. Under its new board of directors, headed by saturnine Banker J. Cheever Cowdin, Universal has completely reversed its trend. Instead of Boris Karloff, today its top star is Deanna Durbin. Instead of morbid criminology its forte is a peculiarly blithe brand of girlish comedy of which Service de Luxe is the latest sample...
...which he had sputtered down from Boston. Moored just off the pier he tied up to was a slim, long yacht hull. The masts were off her, she could have done with some swabbing, but to Tex's longing eyes she was a jimdandy. To a benign-looking stranger gazing off to sea he said so. Then things took a fairy-tale turn. "Glad you like her," said the stranger. "She's yours...
...every retired Californian over 50 is the golden promise which fortnight ago won Sheridan Downey the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate over Senator William G. McAdoo. The scheme would add an estimated $1,315,766,400 to the State budget. How Californian capital cottons to this benign idea of legislating Utopia became apparent last week when California offered for sale for unemployment relief $2,000,000 worth of registered warrants payable in February. Such State borrowings as recently as August 12 were easily sold at .75%. Last week there was but one bid, from Bankamerica...
...quiet of his summer retreat at St. Josephs. N. Y.. death (of coronary thrombosis) came last week to Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, 70. Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York since 1919, Prince of the Church since 1924, benign and white-haired "Cardinal of Charities" to the 1,000,000 Catholics of the world's richest archdiocese. Forty-six years a priest, but never pastor of a church. Cardinal Hayes was the first native-born shepherd (which he liked to call himself) of New York. His steady rise in the church he owed to scholarship, administrative ability...