Word: benignity
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...house the Big Tepee. But the Big Tepee was only a beginning. To house his 200 employes the Big Father built a town, with hotel, saloon, store and school, incorporated it as Lost Cabin, Wyo. He made himself mayor, carried a deputy sheriff's badge, set up a benign personal government. By the mid-1920s Lost Cabin boasted concrete walks, a golf course, a skating rink, motion pictures, and an aviary stocked with cockatoos and other exotic birds. Many a tourist mistook its gates for those of Yellowstone Park, drove in, stayed to marvel...
...first time in history Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague faced "those damned voting machines," installed through the efforts of his archenemy, Republican Governor Walter Edge. Many hoped that Boss Hague, denied the benign influence of the graveyard vote, would be defeated after 28 years in office. Jersey City's well-trained voters gave him a handsome 3-t01 majority...
...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...