Word: genial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pastor's flock often contains a goodly proportion of black sheep; but on Nebraska's plains, what agile and goatish rams must gambol and run; what wild shy ewes upon its crooked paths! Nonetheless, when the rites of consecration were over, Bishop Rummel made a short, genial speech, then conferred upon his mother, who was still crying while she knelt, his first Bishop's blessing...
...SHANNONS OF BROADWAY-A pair of genial vaudevillians trying to run a village hotel (TIME...
...time it was a furnace pipe "gone flooey;" this time it was a blazing chimney. And, as in January, the men of Number Nine were well rewarded for their labors. Doffing helmets, wiping hands on shirt, they soon were regaled with coffee, sandwiches, perfectos, etc., etc., not to mention genial wisecracks and charming smiles, all served with a maximum of relish after the excitement by perhaps the most persuasive host and hostess in all U. S. politics-Speaker of the House and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth...
...history of the Ritz Hotels in America is concerned less with César than with his ablest lieutenant, Albert Keller. Large, red, round and genial, Mr. Keller went to the London Ritz when it opened about 19 years ago. Before that he had worked in hotels all over Europe; had even at the very first been a kitchen apprentice in the National Hotel at Geneva, which is now the Palace of the League of Nations. He was made manager of the New York Ritz when it opened in 1910. Every since he has directed the policy of this hotel...
Even in France one does not take this genial 250-pounder seriously--no one, that is, except the police, who have learned from bitter experience that behind this gentleman's grand opera gestures there beats a brain capable of engineering even the most subtle of prison breaks...