Word: endears
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...Foreign Minister, Menemencioglu did not always endear himself to opposing diplomats. He knew how to use his partial deafness and his lung ailment during diplomatic conversations, failing to hear what did not suit him, throwing tantrums in the midst of serious conversations, stalking away to "recuperate...
...their worst wishers were dead right. Johnny Come Lately stars the man who was a top Warner's moneymaker in a role he likes and to which he gives everything he has. It introduces to the screen Grace (Kind Lady) George, luminous in a role which should so endear her to U.S. cinemaudiences that she may well become overnight on the screen what she has been for years on Broadway - the official quintessence of elderly? femininity. The film it self is rich nostalgic fare, elegantly dished out, about small-town politics at the turn of the century...
...where he now manages a minor-league ball club. But Rogers Hornsby might well have pondered the caprices of his career. For the very traits that made the Rajah a spectacular player lost him job after job as manager. Aggressive, independent, intolerant of advice, he made no effort to endear himself to his employers...
...Tobey's constant sniffing in the bushes for the Big Bad Roosevelt does not endear him to the Senate, which is a body of men who hate to keep jumping up all the time, and who prefer to take even their own wolf-halloos with plenty of salt, and maybe just a dash of bitters. Last week rancorous, cantankerous Mr. Tobey was out front again for his first real headlines since his passion for picayune causes led him to denounce the U.S. Census last year as regimentation. Three weeks ago his sensitive neb caught the scent of convoys. Quick...
...Union is not alone to be congratulated. With the possible exception of his recent appointment of Professor Ferguson to the key post of Faculty Dean, President Conant has done nothing that will do more to endear him to the doubting liberals in the college world than his gesture of good will to the Union...