Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, or painless, treatment of the same subject as Leftist Michael Gold's Jews Without Money. An elderly Rumanian named Mr. Marco is the acknowledged patriarch of the pushcart market and adjacent tenements under Manhattan's Williamsburg Bridge. Shrewd as Solomon and benign as an Easter bunny, Mr. Marco spends his days getting evicted tenants restored to their rooms, destitute European refugees set up in the pushcart business. But eventually a real-estate company razes the tenements and disperses the pushcarts. At a last neighborhood party, brightened by his market-place alumni who have grown rich, Mr. Marco...
They are proving out. "We have only one trouble here," explained lean, benign Don C. Faith, the Fort's colonel-commandant. "They work too hard." Repeatedly the meticulously soft-spoken colonel has warned the WAACs to slow down, to budget their energy...
Phase No. 2 took place at Mayor Orden's "five-room palace." By the fire sat Dr. Winter, the town historian and physician, "bearded and simple and benign." "What's the Mayor doing?" he asked the butler. "Dressing to receive the Colonel, sir. . . . Madame is trimming the hair out of his ears. It tickles...
...disposed of his Russian opposition simply by shooting it, was once widely regarded in the democracies as a sort of unwashed Genghis Khan with blood dripping from his fingertips. But as his armies have provided the principal opposition to Adolf Hitler, Dictator Stalin has come to seem increasingly benign to his new democratic friends. Last week United Press Correspondent Wallace Carroll, just out of Russia, reported that one U.S. official, after being guest at a Kremlin dinner celebrating the completion of aid-to-Russia arrangements, described the Dictator as "a nice old gentleman...
...effeminate", Mr. Kittredge sat and smoked, and listened with well-simulated interest while I, dripping with perspiration like a municipal sprinkler, read on and on, and while in the semi-darkness my fellow students heaved oc-occasional gusty sights of weariness; but one's reward came with a few benign words of approval which seemed an Olympian benedicton...