Word: genial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overslept that Joe Forecast was again to contribute weekly wisps of wisdom to its readers. Knowing there was only one Joe, unless you count Joe, Jr.--but that is another story--I went post haste to the imposing edifice on Plympton Street to investigate. A heated colloquy with the genial President followed. I finally agreed not to disappoint my public, in return for which the CRIMSON gave me a subscription at the special rate of five dollars, a press ticket to the University Theatre, and a promise to inform its readers each week whether...
...will know whether I am just getting up or just going to bed. Perhaps I will be able to retrieve my reputation for lateness that has caused me to be known as 'the late Mayor of New York.' " Mayor Walker's youth as well as his genial behavior caused vast astonishment and pleasure to Fascist observers. Said Mayor Walker: "I am something of a Fascist myself...
...title of Colonel, as did Col. Edward M. House, from an appointment to the staff of the Governor of Texas. He has lost one leg; the other is slightly rheumatic?so he rides about in an electric car over the seven miles of paved roads on his estate. A genial squire and patron, he keeps 300 employees, has 32 residences for them...
Five years have passed since genial Mr. Bottomley was led into a cell for converting to his own use Ł5,000 ($24,300) of the really enormous sums which his fervent oratory had helped to raise for War purposes. To be sure the judge who sentenced Mr. Bottomley stigmatized his "long series of heartless frauds"; but the culprit, who had conducted his own defense, rose to the occasion with a deep bow and the words: "My Lord, I only go where all accused men are sent in this land...
...California, and mentally f oundationed - or undermined - to show Capitalism as the causa of all that is horrid in the Golden West, Communism as the hope of all that is hopable there by Author Sinclair and the woeful workers whose Moses he is. Like many bores, Mr. Sinclair is genial; like more, he has investi gated his subject. So the charac ters are appealing - J. Arnold Ross, onetime muleteer, rough-hewn oil baron; his son, Bunny, honest by his lights, which shift from the Kliegs of Hollywood to the rising Soviet sun; their friends, enemies, mistresses and Bunny...