Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repeating a well-tried political philosophy. He had been using it since 1903; he had been elected eleven times for a total of 24 years. In all that time, profane, fox-faced Ed Woodruff had never hidden his benign attitude toward Peoria's gamblers, bawdyhouses and bars...
...saga, is that rare sort of great man, humble, slow-minded, naive and brave, who never realizes his own greatness. At the beginning, in a Scottish village, he has no desire to take holy orders. He is brought to it by his sweetheart's death and by a benign old Monsignor (Edmund Gwenn) who talks, not too urgently, about the will of God. It is this same mentor who sends the young priest, when he has come to regard himself as a hopeless failure, a thousand miles deep into 19th-Century China, to install himself in a leaky stable...
...achievement of the movie, in fact, is to give the Smiths something to be sorry about: the real love story is between a happy family and a way of living. Technicolor has seldom been more affectionately used than in its registrations of the sober mahoganies and tender muslins and benign gaslights of the period. Now & then, too, the film gets well beyond the charm of mere tableau for short flights in the empyrean of genuine domestic poetry. These triumphs are creditable mainly to the intensity and grace of Margaret O'Brien and to the ability of Director Minelli...
Died. Claud Bowes-Lyon, 89, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of England's Queen Elizabeth; in Forfarshire, Scotland. Worried by taxes, the spare, benign Earl once feared he would have to sell his Glamis Castle (pronounced Glarms), "the oldest inhabited house in Britain," long supposed the spot where Macbeth murdered Duncan and sleep...
...McWilliams, the soapbox fiührer who used to berate the Jews and laud Hitler on Manhattan street corners, got top billing in the indictment ("United States of America v. Joseph E. McWilliams, et al"). Quiet, swart Lawrence Dennis, U.S. fascism's No. 1 intellectual, sat glumly near benign-faced James True, organizer of America First, Inc., and inventor of the "kike-killer" (Pat. no. 2,026,077), a short rounded club made in two sizes (one for ladies). Chicago's Mrs. Elizabeth ("The Red Network") Dilling, leader of the "Mothers' Crusade" which once sprawled noisily...