Word: genial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...golden mellowness of old Kentucky "corn," his hand had felt the frost of tall mint juleps, but he remained faithful, legislatively, to the arid principles of his constituents. He had been arrested for intoxication in both Pikeville, Ky., and Washington, D. C., but Congressmen continued to admire his genial philosophy, his legal knowledge. He is now serving a two-year term in the Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to violate the prohibition law, but he was made editor of Good Words, a monthly magazine published "with the approval of the Department of Justice for the encouragement and educational advancement...
...Salzburg, his childhood home, an annual August rendezvous of everyone at all Art conscious, lurked in his Festspielhaus, directing a rehearsal of Turandot, is proverbially averse to being photographed. Came a little Jew, "the slickest Jew on earth," the uncrowned Barnum of the Drama. Mr. Morris Gest, in genial mood, volunteered to get Cartoonist Barton and his camera into the Festspielhaus where never a cinema camera had clicked before. Mr. Gest succeeded. Max Reinhardt threw up his hands: "There is no stopping you Americans!" Max Reinhardt posed. Flickering light rays imposed upon the film the likeness of a curly haired...
...Loew, showman. Mr. Loew, of "Loew, Inc.," became a showman twenty years ago in much the same fashion that he has now become a legionaire-by accident. Even during the solemn ceremony that involved the bit of ribbon he could not appear to be taking himself seriously. A short, genial little man, with a big mouth and eyes that seem always to be listening, he had the air of an elegant Hebrew comedian about to do a vaudeville turn. It was thus that he appeared before the famed David Warfield on the day that he entered the show business...
...collars starched, and so on. And the author modestly relates "How My Wife and I Built Our Home for $4.90" after the approved manner of the American Magazine. Ladies' culture and gents' luncheon clubs, of which Mr. Leacock addresses a great many, will find a few genial descriptions of themselves, which may or may not move them to agree with the blurb. But if no one agrees, the author need not repine. He is most amusing most of the time and if one cannot be another Mark Twain it is something, after all, to be a Stephen Leacock...
Rolling Home (Reginald Denny). Another sample of Mr. Denny's genial and utterly unimportant art impresses one with the power of his sunshine. He plays the part of a busted millionaire returning to his home town and buying everything in sight. Just as the inhabitants are about to solve his insolvency, he fastens on to a power franchise, wins the girl, and all of that. These things would be thin indeed were it not for Mr. Denny. As a matter of fact they are pretty good...