Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount) is an excessively stupid little production which serves no apparent purpose except to belittle the talents of Cinemactress Sylvia Sidney who is featured in it. She appears as a college student bedazzled by a classmate (Phillips Holmes) whose toothy smiles will seem to audiences less seductive than benign. When he seduces and deserts her, she marries...
...Swiss relative, President Max Huber of the International Red Cross, Chief Justice Hughes and many another assembled at the New Willard Hotel for a Red Cross "golden jubilee" dinner. Declared President Hoover: "The Red Cross is one of the most beautiful flowers of the American spirit. . . . Like so many benign social agencies, it sprang from the mind and the heart of a woman. Clara Barton was in her own person and her own life all that the Red Cross has since become. . . . The Johnstown flood found her ready and within an hour after it was reported...
...keep the drug away from quacks.) But for fame the two men-Dr. Coffey. 63, and Dr. Humber, 36-are avid. "A Square Deal" When Dr. Swing's turn came last week to say why Drs. Coffey & Humber should be excluded from New York, he was a benign Dutch uncle: "The most important question is whether Drs. Coffey and Humber are getting a square deal from the organized medical profession. I am very much concerned about that. A good many physicians have said that it would be a great pity if the organized medical profession should by virtue...
...lineage of Uncle Sam, benign personification of the nation, was again raised last week. Was this lean Yankee character in beaver hat and striped trousers who reflects the emotions of 123,000,000 people, the bastard offspring of some japester's lively imagination or was he the scion of flesh-and-blood...
Speaker Nicholas Longworth was addressing his House of Representatives a few minutes before its March 4 adjournment. He was rounding out his third term in the highest legislative office in the land. Smiling, benign, always the "good fellow" he was looking forward to December when the 72nd Congress would meet with neither party in clear-cut control. Well aware was he that Death, in the interval, might decide the Speakership...