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Word: genial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reporters who interviewed M. Daudet some 29 hours after his arrest should have taken place found him genial but defiant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gendarmes Defied | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

There are people whose hearts go out to anything on a small scale. Perhaps they will sympathize with Otto and his little scheme for improving his vocabulary and pleasing the public. It is a worthy enterprise. Presided over by the diminutive favorite and his genial Boss, it--well, it otto grow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Otto Grow Faces Problems of Man of Books in New Lending Library--Tiny Nook on Huntington Ave. Houses Tiny Shop | 5/17/1927 | See Source »

That the shot took effect was seen when British Delegate Sir Walter Runciman, genial shipping magnate, remarked candidly: "It looks like friend Muspratt got it right on the bean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: 1,000 Delegates | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...Very Reverend Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett, 60, Dean of Chester, genial husbandman of souls: "I lived as a boy in the middle of a great hunting country. Hounds and pink coats still give me a sort of tingle. But the best part of me knows that it is all barbarous and brutal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: More Good Than Harm? | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...kind of man, he also occupies somewhat the role of an older brother, when such a role is in place, helps the student solve the problems of college life and even, sometimes, of love affairs. The aim is to make the relation of tutor and tutored informal, human, and genial. While the former normally has an office in which he may meet his students if, he pleases, many tutors receive them at their rooms, or houses, and offer them such stimulus to geniality as tea and cigarettes (or so I hear). Several of the younger unmarried men are given free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutorial System Successful in Achieving Its Aim, Says Tatlock | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

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