Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: "Pop" Frank S. Fosdick benign, sage, well-loved father of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick-"Timalysed" in your issue of Oct. 6, was for years (28) principal of Hasten Park High School {Continued on p. 12) in Buffalo. He showed many an adolescent striveling the way to learn, to live, to attain. . . . Never was "Pop" Fosdick, Superintendent of the Buffalo Schools, as you state erroneously on p. 71. N. B. I believe his father held the office of Superintendent of Schools for a time...
...bitter nationalism is diametrically opposed to that benign internationalism focused in Pope Pius XI, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church...
...make Reno famed for its divorces. Most petitioners prefer Judge Bartlett to Judge Thomas F. Moran, who is reputed to dig too deep into marital conditions, to quibble over the custody of children. Over 60, Judge Bartlett is happily married, the father of three daughters and a son. Short, benign, he wears his long white hair bobbed across the back, bald in front. He smokes a pipe, carries a light cane, affects black string neckties and Quakerish felt hat. He lives three blocks from the courthouse in a big rambling house, open to all, keeps no servant, is familiarly called...
...images which would have been a highly exciting thing even without any story at all, is gone. Its absence was never proved more definitely than by The Arizona Kid. For this is no sophisticated echo of an old form, but the great, universal "western" itself, the one about the benign Mexican badman - living in disguise and loved by his friends and the village girls- who is really the desperate Arizona Kid, and who is discovered and chased in the last reel and gets away with his sweetheart down the canyon side. Instead of rushing, it is lethargic, ornate; when...
...watches his own sincere efforts to elevate the Indian people transformed to an excuse for lawless excesses. Nevertheless, his influence is great. It is possible that he will, as he did in 1876, sacrifice his life-long struggle for a free India to the ideals of his benign Buddha and check the simmering of Indian nationalism before it comes to a boil. Eyes are turned to the East where a lion raises a questioning eyebrow at a Saint...