Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expert In Rackets. Again Bishop Garbett resolutely dug in. A bachelor, he struggled with the malnutritive budgets of swarming slum families. He became an expert in the manipulations of loan sharks, mastered the ins & outs of rent piracy. Today the benign Archbishop of York probably knows more at first hand about rackets, gambling and liquor than any other man in England. He studied the problem of permanent unemployment as voluminously as and at much closer quarters than prolix Beatrice & Sidney Webb (Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain). Through the Church he encouraged interdenominational efforts to spread social service...
...book's 150 portraits, were good. They were grave and unaffected, erring, if in any way, on the side of gentleness. Their children were full of grace. The young women were fragile, and the young men were self-satisfied without being either complacent or smug. Their elders were benign, mellowed, trustworthy. They dressed comfortably (there are some 50 pictures of their Sunday and everyday costumes in the book). They built good houses, good ships, strong forts, sturdy barns. They drew good plans for them. They carried muskets so formidable that many a contemporary householder may envy them. They worshiped...
Tall, cheerful, benign, the son of a poor man who died soon after he was born, Confucius (551-478 B.C.) married at 19, fathered a son and two daughters, was put in charge of the granary of Baron Chi of Lu, became superintendent of herds and parks and at 22 began teaching philosophy and history. The sparse facts of his career form a clear pattern climaxing in his brief period of power as chief magistrate of Chung-tu when he was 52 and when, so potent was his example that "he was the idol of the people and flew...
...benign old veteran who was drafted at a time when Pearl Harbor was an annex of the beach at Waikiki, I finally find myself in a position where I can reminisce about The Old Army (not to be confused with The Old Old Army, which is the province of first sergeants, or The Old Old Old Army, which is what the grizzled master sergeants' fire talking about when they tell you what they said to First Lieutenant Ike Eisenhower said to them...
...airplane in Moscow last Sunday stepped a benign ecclesiastic in a purple cassock and cap. He was Britain's No. 2 primate, Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. He came to visit Patriarch Sergius, Metropolitan of All Russia, a fortnight after Joseph Stalin had given his blessing to the Russian Orthodox Church (TIME, Sept. 13), a few days after the 76-year-old Patriarch had been enthroned in his jampacked Cathedral with Ritualistic pomp not seen in Russia since the Bolshevik revolution. Following his enthronement, the Metropolitan blessed the Soviet Government (whose members, like all Communists, are atheists...