Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John F. Curry, 64, was big boss of Tammany Hall from 1929 to 1934. White haired and benign, the old Tammanyite walked to the stand without a glance at powerful old Tammanyite Hines. who helped to make him boss and later led the movement to oust him. Prosecutor Dewey had been trying to show that one of Hines's great services to the numbers racketeers was his ability to get troublesome detectives transferred to other duties. He asked Mr. Curry...
Democratic nominee for Governor was white-crowned, benign-looking, Danish-blooded Culbert L. Olson of Los Angeles...
...Demagoguery." Surrounded by guards, a big, benign, mustached man slipped into the Great Hall of Cooper Union in Manhattan, modestly took his place on the platform before an audience of 1,000, smiled and applauded graduates' speeches. At length Trustee J. Pierpont Morgan rose, picked up a pile of diplomas, handed one to each of the 128 graduates, gave him a quick handshake, a smile and a bow. When President Gano Dunn asked him to speak, Banker Morgan bowed to the applause, smiled, shook his head...
...helped to push the Classics into the virtual limbo in which they now stagnate, all is not right with the department here. A definite charge that they have neglected to make their subject appealing to students must be made against the men who now control its policy. Musty research, benign scholasticism and dull philology are not fulfilling obligations to their subject or to students who might benefit from a more vigorous and timely presentation. That a broader cultural and literary approach might be used is merely one general suggestion. At any rate, if a classical education here is to turn...
...copies); 2) some shrewd observations on U. S. women, embedded in praise too fulsome to be called flattery; 3) an account of a heroic career as a lecturer that once carried the abbe through 39 lectures in less than 80 days; 4) a general picture of a benign, well-wishing, patriotic character who knows that in the war between good and evil, the thought of the "suffering endured at any minute by millions of men" is made bearable only by the thought of "the tremendous amount of kindness at work ... at that same minute...