Word: genial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said not only to be brilliant and adroit but a genial host, a good horseman and a "fair" tennis player...
...death of Payson Dana, class of 1904, Harvard College has lost an able and devoted alumnus. He was always genial and happy, a leader in every place and undertaking. The greater part of his latter years was almost entirely devoted to Public Service...
...John Burgoyne was born in London in 1722. The family was of good old stock. . . ." Gentleman Johnny, like many a brave young man of his day or of any day, spent his youth in riotous and genial diversions. A soldier but not inelegant, he wrote a letter to a lord and signed...
...these janitors whose business is to hoist dumbwaiters and trundle garbage pails, beating upon them. He was numbered among janitors who waddle through the hallways of innumerable college dormitories. To alumni a legend of competence, to faculty members a jovial rock of propriety, to students a genial but unyielding tyrant, he had spent 54 years of his life upon the campus of the College of the City of New York. As his father had done when Michael Bonney was only a small, destructive hobbledehoy, he gave his time to tidying bedrooms and fixing lamps, sweeping up broken bottles, locking doors...
Just Fancy. Again the fable of a prince who loved madly but, for his country's sake, not morganatically. Perhaps it was not considered courteous to the current genial heir to Britain's throne to make him into a musical comedy. Accordingly the flashback method was dragged out, dusted off, and from a modern prolog the story shifted to a tale of Edward VII adventuring in the U. S. This, of course, meant crinolines; and humor, unfortunately, to match. Pretty tunes and pretty Ivy Sawyer contributed gently. Raymond Hitchcock, infrequent player in Manhattan of late years, developed ingenious theories...