Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of its non-habit-forming character, doctors have recently been experimenting with the drug as an aid in curing opium addiction. In the world of hot jazz, marijuana's relatively benign effects are attested by long experience. Lushes often die young from cirrhosis of the liver or apoplexy, often spend their final days in delirium tremens. But vipers frequently live on to enjoy old age. In You Rascal You, a viper addresses an imaginary lush : "I'll be standing on the corner high when they bring your body...
...Benign Elmer Davis, OWI director, addressing the American Newspaper Guild convention at Boston this week, said Washington news is "less adequately covered than any other news in the world." The American war machine is now "rolling," he said, "but many people in this country seem unaware of it." He implied that some newspapers and newsmen, because of their "antagonism" toward the Administration and "hostility to some of our allies," have deliberately created the impression "that Washington was a synonym for muddle, confusion and bickering...
...gamy Memphis another clean-up campaign was in full swing, and as usual owl-eyed, benign Boss Ed Crump, 67, was the prime cudgel-wielder. This time he was after the cats. Memphis songbirds were in peril, said the boss, so cats must go. A "nice house cat" was all right, but tramps of either sex were out. Promptly cattraps began to appear in Memphis back yards, particularly those of county and city employes. County Commissioner Francis Andrews trapped three right...
...they got in 1939, and increased their seats in the powerless Rigsdag lower house from 137 to 143. The Germans deliberately kept the German minority (Schleswig) party out of the campaign, and the Danish pro-Nazi elements lost three of eight seats. Instead of praise for Germany's benign treatment, Dr. Goebbels reaped humiliating acclaim for Denmark's adherence to the democratic ideal...
...While the youthful Siegfrieds, Tristans and Tannhausers are all muscle-on the stage, mostly stomach-and ego, their elders (Wotan, Hans Sachs, Kurwenal, et al.) are mostly kindhearted, responsible, possessed of human failings and a regard for social obligations. For 20 years at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera these benign Wagnerian oldsters have been impersonated by the outstanding Wagnerian baritone of his generation, stocky, bald-headed Friedrich Schorr. Last week, before a packed house that rose to its feet and cheered, Friedrich Schorr sang Wotan for the last time. At 54, Friedrich Schorr was getting too old to be Wagner...