Word: genial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back from Europe last week, on the S. S. France came Walter Damrosch, genial, sexagenarian conductor of the New York Symphony, and forthwith there was issued an announcement of several of the Symphony Society's novelties for next season...
Henry IV. The Players for their annual all-star revival unfolded the tempestuous and unfamiliar lengths of the first part of Henry IV. They did it resonantly, picturesquely, a trifle tiresomely. Their Falstaff was the rotund and eminently genial Otis Skinner, a fine actor. Mr. Skinner took it into his head that the rogue should be played hygienically. His Falstaff was a beaming and unvicious figure. One could not help feeling that he would make his next entrance down the chimney with a pack on his back instead of through the scullery door with a wench by the hair...
...joys, not many diversions are at hand. Vitally necessary it is therefore to conserve the placid comforts of a smoking jacket. In spite of the anti-tobacco league, the weed remains the constant solace of a harried soul. Since the time of Walter Raleigh, men have profited by the genial warmth of a mouthy fireplace...
...Election. To oppose the Fundamentalist candidate, Dr. Lapsley A. McAfee of Berkeley, Calif., the Moderates chose a man possessed of three extraordinarily varied qualifications: a compelling, genial personality; an indorsement (last year) from the late Fundamentalist William J. Bryan; and a high administrative record in a big position. He is Rev. Dr. William O. Thompson, bald Bismarckian lately retired president of Ohio State University. When Dr. Macartney tried to reconcile Dr. McAfee's alleged tolerance with Dr. McAfee's own declaration that "there is room in the church for all but the extreme Modernists," the Liberal nominator...
...Beta Kappa, high brotherhood of scholastic distinction in U. S. colleges, last week celebrated the approach of the 150th anniversary of its founding, at the Hotel Mayflower, in Washington, D. C. The society's president, President Emeritus Charles Franklin Thwing of Western Eeserve University, was on hand, eruditely genial. Members of the mother chapter were there-President J. A. Chandler and Drs. R. M. Hughes and J. Lesslie Hall, of the College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Va.) where (the year after Paul Revere rode through Massachusetts) one John Heath and four comrades started a secret fraternity into which...