Word: cordiale
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...gave every sign of wanting to welcome Barbara home with loud huzzas when she came back to Broadway last fall in John Steinbeck's gauntly Saroyanesque play, Burning Bright. But in the face of Steinbeck's dreary obscurities, the best most of them could muster was a cordial hello. Last month, when Barbara at last rode into town on a good play, the huzzas were unanimous...
Official welcome for these three envoys seemed cordial; the press gave them all headlines and front-page portraits. The attitude was distinctly frosty toward the British and French ambassadors. Not a line appeared about French Ambassador Bernard Hardion; Spanish Falangists have no love for his government. No paper printed the British Information Services' detailed biography of Ambassador Sir John Balfour ("He can quote classic Spanish plays at great length"). One reason for this was evident in reports from London; there, in Parliament, a government spokesman opposed Spain's entry into the North Atlantic alliance because it would weaken...
...whole air was very cordial. But if the girls had any doubts about Miss Projansky's meaning they could notice that one of the correspondents was no longer with them. Radcliffe had purged her from the press board five days before, because she had written a story and didn't clear...
Hitler, who "had no love for foreign newsmen," was not quite so cordial. Visiting Berchtesgaden in 1932, Kaltenborn's prodding on anti-Semitism ("I purposely irritated him with my first question") provoked the Führer to shriek: " 'Who are you to talk about who should be allowed in Germany?' " Kaltenborn says that "got us off on the tone which dominated the entire interview...
...show was the portrait of Oklahoma Governor Roy Turner's great Hereford bull, the late Hazford Rupert 81st, which sired $1,000,000 worth of calves. He was, Lea recalled, "a most distinguished, gentlemanly and cordial old bull. He tipped the scales at 1,850 pounds, liked to have his back scratched, and was gentle as a house dog . . . He stood for his portrait not only with dignity but with the skill of an experienced and much interviewed public figure. He was pleasanter and far more interesting than many human portrait subjects I have...