Word: cordiale
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...Lewis found Wisconsin's faculty less than cordial. They avoided him, gossiped about him at the University Club, carped at him in faculty meetings. One day last week "Professor"' Lewis abruptly announced to his class: "I have said all I could say in a year." Next day he packed his bags and took a train to Manhattan. Although his departure was outwardly amicable, the Milwaukee Journal reported that he had told a friend: "I've had enough of the faculty objecting to this and that. I'm through." The Journal also unearthed the reason...
...Dale Maple a growing admiration for Adolf Hitler, and for Nazi "efficiency." Dale took perverse pleasure in shocking his associates by singing the Horst Wessel song and Deutschland Uber Alles. When pink-cheeked Faculty Adviser James Hawkes became perturbed and tried to squelch his Nazi talk, Dale conceived a cordial dislike for Instructor Hawkes, became still more defiant. To the dismay of his roommate, Dale installed a bust of Hitler on his desk...
...Lewis, William Green, Earl Browder and others. Beecher does not let his cons black out his pros in his protesting acceptance of the world as it is. But there is one world figure for whom he has absolutely no use: Hitler. "And I Will Be Heard" ends with a cordial assurance to the Führer that he will die, and that the U. S. will take over...
...newsmen next day the Duke & Duchess were cordial, diplomatic, blandly evasive. With a tactful eye to U. S. tourist trade, the Duchess hoped that a "great many Americans will come to the Bahamas." The Duke talked of a visit to the U. S., quipped: "The highest building when I was there last was the Woolworth. That's dating...
From Tokyo came a good imitation of pleasure. Japan and the U. S. "are in cordial agreement," said one spokesman. Fact was, of course, they were in agreement in words only...