Word: cordiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scripts had referred to Wyoming as the "most cordial. . . most fertile . . . most primitive" of states, to Utah as the state "where men have as many wives as they can support." In Nevada, the "two principal cities are in competition. In Las Vegas people get married and in Reno they get divorced." New England, said the scripts, was "founded by hypocrisy" and Texas...
...these antics, the New York Post's Saloon Editor Earl Wilson reacted thus: "Jim was cordial and I've nothing personal against him-he just made me sick, that...
During a Freshman's first few days in Cambridge, one of the less memorable events of his academic career takes place. He and his "adviser" solemnly devote fifteen minutes to laying out an academic program, a process which is likely to consist of two sets of cordial handshakes sandwiching a signature...
...house at 5 Philips Place has become even more a meeting place of nations than the UN in recent years, as students from 58 countries gather nightly in its Colonial-style rooms to sip tea, meet new friends, and carry on bull sessions in an atmosphere many degrees more cordial than that at lake Success. Now known as the International Student Center, the pillared, yellow-clapboard house near Radcliffe yard echoed to the first of many non-New England accents in 1941 and became an unofficial consulate that has since eased many foreign students into unfamiliar American ways...
Stallybrass is unfailingly cordial to undergraduates when they first "come up," unfailingly remote for some time after. Yet he often stays up late at night, writing letters that follow his favorites-to imperial outposts, to careers in politics and science. When they come back for a visit, he insists on snapping their pictures and putting the pictures in his already cluttered study. His dinners, embellished with gleaming silver from three huge chests and the best of wines, are famous. Over such a dinner, paunchy W.T.S. Stallybrass, with a puff on his filter-tip cigaret, likes to repeat the words...