Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Getting Married. This Theatre Guild revival of George Bernard Shaw's matrimonial polemic is well-staged, well-directed, well-acted. It presents a number of classic theatrical characters?the braggart soldier, the canny servant, the benign prelate, the worldly-wise woman. Worthiest of these folk, of course, are permitted to toss sound Shavian doctrine between themselves like a medicine ball. Mr. Shaw's sensible precept is that marriage is not a completely blessed state, but that there is no better solution for the social problems of men and women to date. His recommendations: more flexible divorce laws, more respect...
...Century of Progress Exposition for 1933,earnest esthetes gathered in Manhattan auditoriums three nights in succession last week to thumb their long intelligent noses at the Commission,-to honor the man they consider the greatest living architect. Architect Wright, who has never considered bashfulness a blessing, presided like a benign deity over all three meetings: at the University Club, at Town Hall, at the New School for Social Research...
...mesa rock at Acoma, whence the women must descend for water). In all, there are about 75,000 Indians in this district. Every now & then their chiefs hitch up covered wagons or crank up battered motor trucks and travel through the varicolored badlands to councils called by tall, tanned, benign Herbert James Hagerman, 59, onetime (1906-1907) Governor of New Mexico Territory, now special Interior Department Commissioner to handle the business of 21 tribes. Constantly his little official car is speeding over the roads to local powwows or religious dances, where the guttural excitement of the drums will greet...
During the War a crowd of patriots was gathered in old Madison Square Garden to hear the president of Princeton University, President Woodrow Wilson's successor in that office, speak. The crowd saw a benign, slightly-built man walk on the platform, heard him say drowsily: ''I am for peace at any price." They clambered to their feet, booed. Then they heard him add brightly: "But in this case the price of peace is war!" They cheered, cheered, cheered...
...took him to a police station, booked him for disorderly conduct, but did not jail him. The commotion was an eruption of long-burning fires within Bishop Manning's diocese. Many of his clergy dislike him as a bishop. To the run of New York Episcopalians he seems benign; to intimates he seems charming; to the clergy who disagree with his authority he seems tyrannical. His dissenting clergy heckle him every opportunity they get. Last month when he declaimed on the Catholicism of the Protestant Episcopal church they attacked him (TIME, Nov. 17). And they really caused last Sunday...