Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the benign gaze of a life-size statue of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, the marquee of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles billed: "'Confusion Say' Vividly Illustrated...
...Boss, (benign even when KB-QB4, and QXBP, for a Scholar's Mate) runs his Association with an iron hand, withholding & dispensing patronage (honorary offices) as shrewdly as a Cabinet officer...
...fading out of the picture very quietly and decently this time, with the consoling voice of Dean Hudnut murmuring in the background, "I do not consider it a tremendous calamity, if we have to suspend some of the courses for a year." The Dean sounds benign, but the last few years have shown that the Administration is something less than determined to continue the separate existence of the School. Budget restrictions have been blamed, and once the whole idea of regional planning in a national sense was attacked as smacking of totalitarianism. So it is significant that Dean Hudnut...
...this time John Garfield knows exactly how to play the part of an arrogant young tough. Ann Sheridan is learning to add acting to "oomph"; Pat O'Brien is always good as the benign influence, and his prison-warden in "Castle on the Hudson" is no exception. Sing-Sing has had its bleak face on the screen before--many a film star has gone over the dam there. But what makes this picture unusual is probably the fact that Warden Lewis "Twenty Thousand Years" Lawes wrote the original story. The gangster is neither reformed nor reprieved for the crime...
Future. Professor Kirtley Fletcher Mather, Harvard geologist, regards the future of man on earth with a good deal of complacency. He expects the world's climate five or ten million years hence to be more benign than it is now (a cyclic recurrence of past benign climates), and he looks for no astronomical catastrophe to wipe the planet out of existence. It is true, he observed last week, that practically none of the placental mammals (of which man is one) has maintained itself as a species for more than two or three million years, and the average must...