Word: well-meant
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...praise and coin for the privilege of sharing his wonder. In 1930, after the publication of more than half a hundred volumes of his poems, short stories, biographical and historical studies, novels and plays, King George V crowned the onetime sailorman's efforts with the well-meant accolade of the laureateship...
...York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer, in & around the Caribbean on vacation, got the key to San Juan from its lady mayor and a thumping, flag-waving welcome from the Puerto Ricans. To Dominicans later he confessed that some well-meant shouts of the Puerto Rican populace had been: "Viva O'Guardia...
...People are living and thinking in standardized fashion. Military censors observed during the war that all American soldiers wrote the same letters. . . . The effect of many well-meant reforms in education during the first half of the century has been to magnify the importance of social welfare and to minimize that of the individual...
...same reception where Attlee made his well-meant, ill-received remark, Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) was strolling about, smoking a cigarette in a holder. Princess Margaret came up. Bea, not wanting to curtsy while brandishing a cigarette, stuffed it and the holder into her dress front. At St. James's Palace earlier in the day, while a certain lady of title was viewing the royal wedding presents, the King came up to her and, with a very quizzical expression, said: "A lot of people must have had a lot of very nice things stored away for a very long...
Lana Turner, who may play Madame Bovary in the Hollywood version of Flaubert's famed provincial lady, got a well-meant tribute from Columnist Louella Parsons. "Lana," allowed Lolly, ". . . will be a Madame Bovary born to the part...