Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young, who could count a score of wives and 56 children, was a stern but benign husband and father. He conferred with his wives once a day. He held a daily "juvenile court" at his gabled adobe Lion House on East South Temple Street to settle differences between the children...
...Krauss) and his tool, a murderous somnambulist (Conrad Veidt). It was intended as an attack on authoritarianism. But the director cooked up a story "frame" (i.e., he had the main story told by an asylum inmate) which made the heroes (and the authors) seem mad. Authority emerged as a benign force, and the whole point of the original story was sidetracked. The popular device of the "framing story," Dr. Kracauer explains, shows the German mind introversively withdrawing into a shell...
...business, preferences ideological and national give way to one of the most remarkable assortments of reading matter available anywhere: Daily Worker, Irish World, Turf Flash, plus language sheet and pulp (over 600 in toto) mingle on the shelves unembarrassed while Felix looks down with a benign tolerance. "It's no matter if a man buy something," he reasons, "he like to see what it's all about." What does dismay him is the wicked popularity of sex trash. When men are buying that which is portable cover-out, it will likely be current bestsellers Life and Look--new faces since...
...Deal. In the new hand Holman held, the aces were Socony's Board Chairman Harold Sheets; Henry DeWard Collier, the shrewd, benign-looking board chairman of Aramco, boss of Standard of California; William Starling Sullivan Rodgers, director of Aramco and board chairman of the Texas Co.;Aramco's globe-trotting Vice President James Terry Duce. Their companies produce 22% of the worlds oil. They reached an agreement which, in effect, put Jersey Standard and Socony in Arabia...
...luminary lay in biographical penumbra beyond the visual range of Hollywood scouts. She was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, Sept. 30, 1921. Her family was neither down-&-out nor well-to-do. Her Scottish father's handsomeness was distilled, in her, to a gentle beauty. She still shows the benign effects of a limpid childhood and shines quietly with another unpurchasable endowment-an ineradicable gentility. Thanks to an ex-professional aunt in Bristol, Deborah, early in life, had several years' stiff training as an actress. Later she took a whirl at ballet. But her well-padded...