Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they hit the stands. Editors dug hard for local angles. The Atlanta Journal remembered that Golfer Bobby Jones had once played golf with the King, and interviewed him on the King's game. New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, in a rare moment of benign relaxation, fondly recalled that the King was known to a group of U.S. war correspondents by the unofficial code name, "Harry the Horse,"* when he visited France in the early days of World War II. Manhattan's World-Telegram & Sun stamp writer dashed off a column under the head: KING...
...Both benign and autocratic, Ruth Shipley runs her big job-issuing or denying passports to all U.S. travelers, controlling the destinies of 430,000 U.S. citizens abroad-with almost terrifying efficiency and dispatch. Franklin Roosevelt once fondly called her the State Department's "wonderful ogre." For the thousands of troubled U.S. citizens she has helped-servicemen's wives, harried businessmen, hard-pressed students-she is nothing short of wonderful. Her most famous exploit: recovering 300 U.S. passports, first issued to members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and reported lost in battle in the Spanish Civil War. Mrs. Shipley...
...years after he left Independence, Mo. to become a theatrical producer in New York, fortune perversely eluded a benign-looking ex-schoolteacher named Charles Blevins Davis. He managed to round up enough Broadway angels to stage a couple of productions, but they were flops, and life was hard and gritty. Nevertheless, he traveled, met the famous, became well-tailored, suave and bald, and shortened his name to the more fashionable C. Blevins Davis. In 1946, at the age of 45, he married an aging heiress named Marguerite Sawyer Hill, a daughter-in-law of Rail Tycoon (Great Northern) James...
When Matthew's leave was up, sympathetic superior officers cut through red tape and shipped Benita back to Tokyo. There, British headquarters felt less benign, announced that it would launch a prompt investigation of Mrs. Lassetter's escapade. But neither Benita nor the Fusiliers were much abashed. "What are they going to investigate?" asked one young officer. "It was purely a family matter...
...made no tight, preparatory sketches, believing that murals should be designed on the spot. "If you work in a small scale," Diego explains in his slow, benign way, "your amplifications are never in scale or in real relation to the light of the building or the possibilities of looking at the painting...