Word: genial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down in the front of the orchestra with his daughter Florence sat Mr. Talley. Genial, gentle, a little embarrassed, he radiated satisfaction. After the second act he (a professional telegrapher) found his way back stage, broke into his first vacation" in 18 years to click off an Associated Press despatch on an improvised apparatus: "THE THINGS THAT THE TALLEY FAMILY HAVE BEEN DREAMING OF FOR 15 YEARS HAVE COME TRUE STOP OUR LITTLE GIRL IS SINGING TO THE WORLD AS WE ALWAYS THOUGHT SHE COULD SOMETIME DO AND WOULD DO CHARLES M. TALLEY...
...high priest of these two temples, is a genial, bumbling man with a blue twinkle in his eye, a carefree mustache and a knobbly walking stick. He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra. Few Princeton graduates could tell you which temple is the home of the American Whig and which of the Cliosophical Society, but any Princeton man could single out from 10,000 public speaking professors, the memorable face and figure of Professor Harry F. Covington...
...Members of the special audience clapped their hands red. Many of them, stationed conveniently in the front of the orchestra in seats warmed these many years by long-nosed subscribers, reached underneath, pulled forth corsages of violets, hurled them at pretty Mary Lewis, hurled so many that she and genial Edward Johnson had difficulty in gathering them all in, had no place to put them until they bethought themselves of Mimi's apron and filled that...
...serious debtor and a smiling creditor-Count Giusseppi Volpi, Finance Minister of Italy and the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Chancellor of the British Exchequer. A sleek, bearded Latin and an expansive, rubicund Briton. The most powerful self-made Italian industrialist, and the most genial onetime First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty. Such were the two completely antithetical statesmen who sat down to dicker over a settlement of the Anglo-Italian debt, in London, last week. What they said to each other naturally remained a diplomatic secret. But the two sets of public opinion between which they were...
Walter Damrosch, dean of conductors, appeared for the last time this season as leader of the New York Symphony at the fourth concert for young people. Genial, loquacious, he said good-by to his audience, told its members that when they were still freezing in New York he would be wearing the whitest of flannels in Sicily...