Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman of the conference was Virginia's white-haired, benign John Garland Pollard who spoke on the desirability of mortgagees and mortgagors getting together voluntarily to adjust their debt. But the 62-year-old widower made far more news when he scuttled...
...pork chops, chickens, choice cuts of beef. There was a large nursery where some pickaninnies slept, incredibly, for upstairs 300 dusky adults were shouting their evangelical fervor. They were in Heaven, a real Heaven of free food and no work promised and produced by Major J. Divine, a black, benign, inexplicable little cultist...
...stricken at the death of Edwin Gould stands the Harlem Eye & Ear Hospital, thanking God for the life of this patron saint of children. ... In memory of such a man all must doubly strive to give to children as he did-service sublimed by love." Apple-cheeked, fuzzy-bearded, benign, Edwin Gould unlike a dozen other descendants of his famed father made no copy for Hearst's sensational Sunday pages. Yet he was distinguished for more than benefactions to the Harlem Eye & Ear Hospital. At 20, his father's son, he incurred paternal wrath by leaving Columbia University...
...Smith Ely Jelliffe, who had made one affidavit, was called to the stand. Benign, 66-year-old expert neurologist, his monograph on nervous and mental diseases written in collaboration with Dr. William A. White of Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital commands the highest respect of the medical profession. Also he has made considerable good money by testifying as an alienist in legal cases. He testified to the "mental irresponsibility" that saved Harry K. Thaw from the electric chair, to the "mental irresponsibility'' which saved Blanca de Saulles from the charge of killing her husband...
Prize picture in the pamphlet was that of Brooklyn's benign, blue-eyed Boss John H. ("For Success") McCooey milking a cow. Its caption: "A jolly family man from Brooklyn who loves milking." It was taken ten years ago when Boss McCooey participated in a milking contest for the benefit of the Brooklyn Tuberculosis Association. When ''Farmer John" McCooey was shown the pamphlet, he let out a disarming chuckle: ''Why shouldn't the school children have this book? It would prove an inspiration to them to see how the Democratic leaders Lave succeeded . . . (thumbing...